Angelina Jolie Covers Harper’s Bazaar July 2009

Angelina Jolie graces the cover of July’s Harper’s Bazaar but don’t look for an interview with the actress inside the issue because she isn’t exactly interviewed for the magazine. Instead, writer Naomi Wolf examines the secret of Jolie’s success—and explains why we’re fascinated by all things Angelina.

“Yes, she is conventionally beautiful: Bosomy and wasp-waisted, with that curtain of hair and those crazy pillowy lips, she is an obvious male sex fantasy. But more suggestively, polls show that her appeal and magnetism play at least as powerfully in the fantasy life of females.

Women admire Angelina Jolie, but that would hardly stop the presses. Polls also show that if women — not just lesbian and bisexual women but straight women — had to choose a female lover, they would want to sleep with Angelina Jolie. In other words, women both identify with her and desire her.”

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