Oscar Nominated - Amy Adams

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Amy Adams stars alongside Meryl Streep in the upcoming female models film "Julie and Julia."
Amy Adams talks marriage, her 20s and cooking in the August issue of Allure. Allure

Amy Adams talks marriage, her 20s and cooking in the August issue of Allure.
She may have been "homely" as a teen, but Adams has grown to be a beautiful woman. Allure

She may have been "homely" as a teen, but Adams has grown to be a beautiful woman.


Amy Adams never guessed she would be a hugely successful film and TV actress with two Oscar nominations under her belt.

And based on her down-to-earth demeanor, one would never peg her as one of Hollywood’s hottest starlets.

The actress looks back at her teenage years in the August issue of Allure, saying, "I was homely [as a teenager], painfully small, short, with too much blue eye shadow because I thought, it matches my eyes, so why not? Trying desperately to fit in."

And yet here she is at age 34, posing topless in a photo spread for the fashion magazine.

But Adams proves she’s not just a pretty face.

Her latest film, "Julie & Julia," co-starring Meryl Streep as iconic chef Julia Child, shows off a different side of the redhead – her cooking skills.

Adams says she learned how to poach an egg – "a talent that comes in handy" – as well as master more complex recipes from the late Child’s repertoire.

In the flick, Adams plays Julie Powell, a real-life, 30-something writer who penned a memoir about spending a year attempting all of Child’s recipes from her famous cookbook, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking."

The actress identified with the role of Powell and the changes she went through when she reached her 30s.

"Thirty was a big deal for me," Adams says. "It was the age where I re-evaluated everything – how I approached life and how I thought about myself."


"When I look at my 20s, or when I look at any period in my life, I think about how much time I've wasted trying to find the right man," the actress reveals. "But the truth is, once you have a great man in your life, it allows you – or at least for me – to look at yourself and grow as an individual. And gosh, if I had known I was going to find this, my 20s would have been completely different."

And who is this lucky guy?

It’s her fiancé, actor Darren Le Gallo, who has been incredibly supportive of Adams as her career has skyrocketed.

He patiently awaits a break in her schedule so the pair can set a wedding date.

"I think he was patient for the first nine months, but now that we have been engaged for a year, he’s sort of, you know, ‘This is going to happen, right?’" Adams said. "He understands I’m busy, but he’s ready. He’s much more ready many resources for kids and stuff than I am."

At least Le Gallo doesn’t have to worry about her being a bridezilla.

"I've been really busy, and I feel like a horrible fiancée that I haven't gotten swept up in the whole idea of a wedding," Adams said. "But I just haven't."


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