Jessica Alba says she felt objectified during her years starring on “Dark Angel.”

The actress is on the June cover of Marie Claire magazine, where she opens up about her early years of fame and her “Maxim-ready” looks.

“I had a show [‘Dark Angel’] that premiered when I was 19. And right away, everyone formed a strong opinion about me because of the way I was marketed. I was supposed to be sexy, this tough action girl. That’s what people expected…I felt like I was being objectified, and it made me uncomfortable. I wanted to be chic and elegant!”

But now that she is older, Alba says she is more comfortable owning her femininity and sexuality.

I’ve learned how to own it, but I’m still not very overt. There are some women who dress for men. I dress for myself. It took me some time to get here. Being a mom and feeling grown-up have helped. Now if I’m going to wear something short, it has to have a high neck or a little sci-fi toughness to it, an edge.”

ldquo;I like to get positive attention,” she adds. “But if I have a choice between someone noticing in a negative way what I’m wearing and going, ‘What was she thinking?’ or someone not noticing what I’m wearing, I would rather not make a statement at all and just have a good conversation instead.”

Click here for more from Marie Claire magazine.

Kristen Stewart is trying desperately to revive her image as an angry, oft-complaining celebrity who once compared having her photo taken to being raped. And how is she doing that? By complaining again of course!

Only this time, the “Twilight” star who is promoting her new film, “Snow White and the Huntsman,” is complaining about her life being too EASY!

In the cover story for the June issue of Elle magazine, the yoing star says of her sheltered upbringing.

“You can learn so much from bad things. I feel boring. I feel like, Why is everything so easy for me? I can’t wait for something crazy to f—king happen to me. Just life. I want someone to f—k me over! Do you know what I mean?”

Yes, Kristen, you made your point.

But she wasn’t done there.

“It’s one of the reasons I want to act. I love living in different worlds, because a lot of times mine is pretty nice and easy.”

Back in 2010, Kristen told British Elle a very different story.

“It’s so… The photos are so … I feel like I’m looking at someone being raped. A lot of the time, I can’t handle it,” she said at the time. “I never expected that this would be my life.”

Do you think Kristen found her happy place, or are her handlers attempting to revamp her image? If so, they might want to tell her EXACTLY what to say, next time.

Click here for more from Elle magazine.

Fresh off her jiggly YouTube dance controversy, Kate Upton showed up at the MLB Fan Cave in New York City Thursday to lend her autograph to its hallowed Wall of Fame.

This time, no jiggling occurred.

(Photo: MLB/Getty)

WHAT THE WHAT?

Hugh Hefner’s former ‘Girl Next Door’ Holly Madison is headlining a burlesque show in Las Vegas these days. She’s become so ubiqitous there, the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce had her recreate an iconic photo of Miss Atomic Bomb.

According to the Las Vegas Sun, “Above-ground nuclear testing was a major public attraction during the late 1950s, and hotels capitalized on the craze by hosting nuclear bomb watch parties, which usually included the dubbing of a chorus girl as Miss Atomic Bomb.”

Bomb watch parties? That does not sound safe.

Check out a photo of the last Miss Atomic Bomb, 1957’s Lee Merlin.

The ‘Avengers’ weren’t always super cool superheroes. They used to be high school kids just like everyone else.

Amanda Seyfried is playing porn star Linda Lovelace in the upcoming movie “Lovelace.”

The poster for the film was just released, with the blonde actress transformed into a brunette with the help of a 1970s style wig.

To prepare for the role, she watched Lovelace’s iconic porn film “Deep Throat,” Seyfried recently told Glamour magazine.

HOT SHOTS: Amanda Seyfried.

The first thing she noticed?

“What surprised me is the amount of pubic hair!” she said. “I’m pretty sure I would never do a full frontal in a movie—for personal reasons, I wouldn’t really want to show that.”

Seyfried has, however, showed other private parts in films, most recently in the 2009 movie “Chloe,” where she had a lesbian sex scene with co-star Julianne Moore.

Photographer Lawrence Schiller took the final nude photos of Marilyn Monroe the day before she was found dead in her bathtub at the age of 36.

Vanity Fair has several of the photos from that shoot in their June Issue, available on newsstands in New York and L.A. on May 3 and nationally and on the iPad, Nook, and Kindle on May 8.

PHOTOS: See More Marilyn Monroe Lost Nudes

Here’s an excerpt from the issue:

“Fox [Studios] should start paying as much attention to me as they are paying to Elizabeth Taylor,” Marilyn Monroe told Lawrence Schiller (then known as Larry Wolf), hatching the idea that would turn out to be the break of the young photographer’s life: for him to photograph her nude. An ongoing battle to get Fox to take her more seriously, and jealousy of Taylor’s success, led Marilyn to her attention-grabbing plan: a poolside shoot in which she’d jump in the water with a bathing suit on… and come out without it. “Larry,” she said, “if I do come out of the pool with nothing on, I want your guarantee that when your pictures appear on the covers of magazines Elizabeth Taylor is not anywhere in the same issue.”

Marilyn was making only $100,000 for what would be her last film, Something’s Got to Give, in 1962, while Taylor was receiving a million dollars for Cleopatra. She wanted to show Fox that she could get the same kind of coverage as the publicity bonanza generated by Taylor’s very public affair with her co-star, Richard Burton. When Hugh Hefner agreed to pay $25,000 for a nude shot of Marilyn—the most money Playboy had ever paid for a photograph—Schiller thanked her for creating such a big payday, joking, “See what t**s ’n’ ass can do?” “That’s how I got my house and swimming pool,” Marilyn said, laughing. “There isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.”

Just 23 years old at the time, Schiller, at the set on assignment for Look magazine, had no idea that he was getting to know the icon in some of her most vulnerable moments. In an adaptation of his memoir about their sessions together, Schiller recounts intimate and telling conversations that illuminate the private struggles that consumed the starlet in her final days.

“I could tell you all about rejection,” Marilyn said to Schiller. “Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.” “But look at you now,” he said. “Exactly,” she replied. “Look at me now.”  Confused, Schiller protested, “You’re a star! Your face is on magazine covers all over the world! Everyone knows Marilyn Monroe!” “Let me ask you, Larry Wolf—how many Academy Award nominations do I have?” “I don’t know,” he said. “I do,” she said. “None.”

However, Schiller reveals, Marilyn’s attitude about her sex-symbol status fluctuated wildly. While she was at times boastful of her looks and what they procured for her, she was also by turns insecure and angry. “It’s still about nudity. Is that all I’m good for?” she demanded of Schiller. “I’d like to show that I can get publicity without using my ass or getting fired from a picture,” she continued. “I haven’t made up my mind yet.”

It was to be their last conversation: the very next morning, Marilyn was reported dead at 36.

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It looks Carrie Underwood took a page out of Angelina Jolie’s Oscar dress book.

The cover of “Blown Away,” Underwood’s fourth studio album since winning American Idol’s fourth season, depicts the modern Underwood as an airbrushed, supermodel heroine, right leg thrust out forward from a glamorous gown like Angelina Jolie at the Academy Awards.

HOT SHOTS: Carrie’s Self shoot.

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