Portman Feels she is just Like An Old Hag

Oscar favourite Natalie Portman feels like an "old hag", because she's been working as an actress for almost 20 years.

The Black Swan star kickstarted her career as a child model, before working on Broadway and landing her first film role in controversial 1994 movie Leon when she was just 12 years old.

After working tirelessly for the last two decades, Portman has been lauded for her role as a deranged dancer in the ballet thriller, winning several honours and becoming favourite to walk away with the Best Actress Academy Award later this month (Feb11).

The Black Swan star kickstarted her career as a child model, before working on Broadway and landing her first film role in controversial 1994 movie Leon when she was just 12 years old

But Portman admits she's struggling to cope with all the sudden acclaim because she's been around for so long.

She tells the Los Angeles Times, "I made my first movie when I was 11. I'm an old hag. I guess it's pretty common with actors, to be doing this for 18 years, but it's extreme. "I feel like I'm on another planet or something right now.

It's not quite sinking in.

I feel really lucky.

It's something that's completely wonderful, and I have a very definite goal I'm working toward with that".

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Natalie Portman says lesbian sex scene was hard

Natalie Portman has revealed that her much-hyped sex scene with Mila Kunis in their new flick Black Swan was hard. Walking the red carpet to promote the Darren Arronofsky film, Portman admitted that shooting the graphic love scene was confronting, according to the Huffington Post.

"It's hard to have a sex scene, period. It doesn't matter if it's a friend, a male, a female," News.com.au quoted her as saying. "You're with 100-something crew members, lighting you, repositioning you, there's no comfort whatsoever," she said.

Last month, Kunis slammed reports that the pair had downed tequila together before their risqué shoot. "I don't think we could have done that scene if we were intoxicated," she told People at the time.

Both Kunis and Portman have discussed their gruelling training regimes for the film that saw them lose drastic amounts of weight. Five to eight hours a day of cross-training and swimming for a year saw both the petite stars shed 10kg each off their slight frames.

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Natalie Portman left red-faced at awards ceremony

Hollywood actress Natalie Portman was left red-faced at the Environmental Media Awards after organisers aired a clip of her singing about recycling when she was just 11 years old.

The actress was presenting a prize at the ceremony in Burbank, California, Saturday when footage of her as a youngster, dancing and singing about the benefits of recycling, began to roll, reports eonline.com

Portman laughed off the embarrassing gag and went on to hand the EMA Corporate Responsibility Award to Jeff Skoll, producer of "The Cove" and environmental movie "The Crazies".

Veteran Hollywood star Jane Fonda also showed up to honour her ex-husband Ted Turner for his foundation's work in stopping female genital mutilation.

The ceremony, which pays tribute to TV and films with a positive environmental message, also saw James Cameron's "Avatar" win the top movie prize.

Hit sitcom "30 Rock" and TV drama "Bones" were both honoured for episodes which tackled conservation themes, while HBO documentary "Gasland", about natural gas drilling in the US, was also celebrated.

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Natalie Portman Loves India

Natalie Portman is fresh-faced at the book launch of To India With Love: From New York To Mumbai in New York City on Wednesday (November 4).

The 28-year-old actress, who posed with author Waris Ahluwalia at the event, showed her support for the book, which is a scrapbook of personal stories and photos to support the victims of the Mumbai attacks of November 2008.

Earlier today, Entertainment Weekly released exclusive photos of Natalie and costars Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire in Brothers.

The film, which opens December 4, is about a woman whose husband goes missing in Afghanistan and how she turns to her brother-in-law for support.

Celebrity and Botox

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Celebrity and Botox

Vanessa Williams

For those of you who have never heard of botox before, you would have to of been living under a rock to never heard this word spoke. Botox is something that has become very popular in today’s world, especially amongst the celebrities.

Teri Hatcher

Botox is a product that is injected into the human body and is used for plastic surgeons. The process of getting botox done is known for eliminating wrinkles that can be found on the face. Nearly everyone fears having wrinkles and that is why the celebrities have turned to botox.

Nicole Kidman

Yes, botox may be a great method to eliminate those wrinkles, but there is celebrity botox failure. No matter how experienced the plastic surgeon is, celebrity botox failure can arise. In many cases, celebrities are allergic to the botox that is being injected into their body. This means they end up having a bad reaction to it.

Natalie Portman

They will have to use another method to get rid of the wrinkles, or they could always let natural take its course and allow the wrinkles to form. In order to prevent wrinkles from coming at an early age, so you won’t have to go through the chances of finding out if you are allergic to botox, you should stay out of the sun as much as you can.

John Barrowman

This is because sun is known for causing wrinkles when you get older.

Christian Slater

Botox is a toxin that is created by botulinum, which is a type of disease. Botox reduced the wrinkles by paralyzing them.

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Here are some celebrities who are using botox - Angelina Jolie, Keanu Reeves, Vanessa Williams, Christian Slater, Natalie Portman, John Barrowman, Virginia Madsen, Teri Hatcher, Nicole Kidman and more.

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