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Dragon Horse
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Halle Berry reveals suicide attempt
Story Highlights• Actress says divorce pushed her toward suicide
• She stopped "when I had an image of my mother finding me"
• Berry credits therapy for helping her take control of her life
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry says in a magazine interview that she was so depressed after her 1997 breakup with ex-husband and baseball star David Justice that she tried to take her own life.
In this coming Sunday's issue of Parade magazine, Berry says that since then and after a second divorce, she has learned to take control of her own life and now, at age 40, is considering motherhood.
"I was sitting in my car, and I knew the gas was coming when I had an image of my mother finding me," Berry says of the suicide attempt. "She sacrificed so much for her children, and to end my life would be an incredibly selfish thing to do.
"My sense of worth was so low. I had to reprogram myself to see the good in me. Because someone didn't love me didn't mean I was unlovable. I promised myself I would never be a coward again," Berry tells Parade.
Her roles have ranged from the beautiful secret agent Jinx in the James Bond movie "Die Another Day" to the down-on-her-luck waitress in 2001's "Monster's Ball," which won her the best actress Oscar.
She was married to Justice for nearly five years in the early 1990s before her star began to rise after she portrayed singer/actress Dorothy Dandridge in the 1999 television movie "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge."
Berry's second marriage to singer Eric Benet lasted four years until 2005, when they divorced in a highly publicized breakup.
"We were in sex rehab after one year. I wish I had left then, but I was putting everyone's needs before mine," she tells Parade. "If I hadn't gone through the first breakup and made that promise to myself, this would have leveled me. I would have walked into moving traffic."
Berry credits therapy and counseling for helping her take control of her life. Now she is dating male model Gabriel Aubry, who is 10 years her junior.
"My sights are set on a different chapter in my life, which is motherhood. That's the goal I clearly have set for myself."
Copyright 2007 Reuters. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Find this article at:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/29/people.berry.reut/index.html
Looks like Halles got her a new man:
 ten years younger than her too.  |
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Dragon Horse
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She is too fine to be 40...
I tihnk she is "troubled" and always has been, it sounds like she has suffered with low self esteem and depression most of her life.
That is bizarre to most people when you think she is a famous successful actress who is generally considered beautiful. |
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gemini072
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| Dragon Horse wrote: | She is too fine to be 40...
I tihnk she is "troubled" and always has been, it sounds like she has suffered with low self esteem and depression most of her life.
That is bizarre to most people when you think she is a famous successful actress who is generally considered beautiful. |
I guess that is where the old saying 'Don't judge a book by it's cover' comes in. People do assume that 'beautiful' people have high self esteems, that 'big' girls have low self esteems, that blonds & bodybuilders are dumb etc etc |
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Creole GAL
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Halle Berry is a gorgeous and talented girl. She made it to the top of her career with being a Bond girl, producer, Revlon contract, and there is that Oscar... ehhh, that movie is another story. She was Miss Ohio. Halle doe snot come across as a diva either. You never hear bad reports about her.
Her personal life , IMHO, okay you can call it pyshcobabble, is that she , a woman with all of that talent, looks,smarts, keeps picking up on the wrong man for her or a flawed man is because she is trying to help, find, and fix "Daddy." She is one of those kind of girls with Daddy issues.The story is her abusive father the family when she was a veryyoung child. I do not know how young or what her memories were of him , how vivid. Halle has a mother and sister. She has not talked much in her interviews about her family other than that and this suicide thought. Before Halle was famous, she was in a bad relationship with a dentist who whopped her one time too many on the side of the head and she has hearing lost in that ear.
Halle keeps finding men with a "problem," or the wrong man for her: the dentist, David Justice, who by th eway went on inhis life and never really spoke of her , Eric Benet, She is one of those kind of girls. Hopefully she has healed herself and this guy , G.Aubrey, is a good man. |
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zsana
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I really hope things continue to work out well for Halle and Gabriel. She seems truly happy and they make a stunning couple.
What beautiful children they'd have. Only time will tell with these two.
I wish them well. |
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To be labelled "the most beautiful woman in the world" would be an incredible pressure. Especially as you age. It could also be a very lonely life.
I remember---- many moons ago----- I was in a trendy club in Toronto and I looked over and noticed a very famous (in both Canada and the U.S.), celebrity had just come in. I watched him for what seemed like a long time and he just stood there---waiting. He seemed so out of place partly because he was older than the regular patrons who were all in their early twenties. As he stood there, I thought that I had never seen anyone so completely alone in all my life. He just waited and waited. Eventually what he was waiting for happened and he was completely surrounded by young admirers. He began smiling and telling jokes but he reminded me of a sad dog when you give it attention. I felt very sorry for him.
I know that being a celebrity is THE BIG DREAM these days, but I wouldn't wish it on anyone that I loved.
Halle Berry has always seemed like a very genuine person and I hope she has found some happiness and peace in her life. |
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Dragon Horse
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| Patience wrote: | To be labelled "the most beautiful woman in the world" would be an incredible pressure. Especially as you age. It could also be a very lonely life.
I remember---- many moons ago----- I was in a trendy club in Toronto and I looked over and noticed a very famous (in both Canada and the U.S.), celebrity had just come in. I watched him for what seemed like a long time and he just stood there---waiting. He seemed so out of place partly because he was older than the regular patrons who were all in their early twenties. As he stood there, I thought that I had never seen anyone so completely alone in all my life. He just waited and waited. Eventually what he was waiting for happened and he was completely surrounded by young admirers. He began smiling and telling jokes but he reminded me of a sad dog when you give it attention. I felt very sorry for him.
I know that being a celebrity is THE BIG DREAM these days, but I wouldn't wish it on anyone that I loved.
Halle Berry has always seemed like a very genuine person and I hope she has found some happiness and peace in her life. |
I agree. I think it is better to be wealthy and relatively unknown than wealthy and famous.
There are many billionaires who are unknown, like the people who invented Google, they can walk through the average mall and likely have no one recognize them. That's pretty cool to me.
Problem when you are rich & FAMOUS is you don't know if you are meeting "real people" who just like you or if they are vultures who want to use you. |
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From what I have heard, Halle had a rough childhood in many ways. She was teased by White kids about her looks and Black heritage and I am sure that her absent father didn't help in that regard. So much of feeling beautiful is about how one is perceived and it seems that she was overlooked in that department in her formative years, until she started entering beauty pageants (telling in itself I think). She seems to have a strong relationship with her mother than has sustained her throughout the years. I can't even imagine how strong her mother needed to be to raise her.
I am rooting for her. Premiere just did an article about Oscar winners who need to carefully think about their next film and break out of a rut, and Halle was one of them. They said there was no reason why Halle couldn't pull off a romantic comedy (ie., Failure to Launch or The Family Stone) and should stop doing these movie-of-week week, tired thrillers. |
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She looks like her mom, but better...outbreeding can do wonders.  |
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She looks like her mom, but better...outbreeding can do wonders. |
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| Posted: Sat 21 Apr 2007 14:47 Post subject: Re: Halle Berry Suicide Attempt |
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| gemini072 wrote: | | Dragon Horse wrote: | Halle Berry reveals suicide attempt
Story Highlights• Actress says divorce pushed her toward suicide
• She stopped "when I had an image of my mother finding me"
• Berry credits therapy for helping her take control of her life
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry says in a magazine interview that she was so depressed after her 1997 breakup with ex-husband and baseball star David Justice that she tried to take her own life.
In this coming Sunday's issue of Parade magazine, Berry says that since then and after a second divorce, she has learned to take control of her own life and now, at age 40, is considering motherhood.
"I was sitting in my car, and I knew the gas was coming when I had an image of my mother finding me," Berry says of the suicide attempt. "She sacrificed so much for her children, and to end my life would be an incredibly selfish thing to do.
"My sense of worth was so low. I had to reprogram myself to see the good in me. Because someone didn't love me didn't mean I was unlovable. I promised myself I would never be a coward again," Berry tells Parade.
Her roles have ranged from the beautiful secret agent Jinx in the James Bond movie "Die Another Day" to the down-on-her-luck waitress in 2001's "Monster's Ball," which won her the best actress Oscar.
She was married to Justice for nearly five years in the early 1990s before her star began to rise after she portrayed singer/actress Dorothy Dandridge in the 1999 television movie "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge."
Berry's second marriage to singer Eric Benet lasted four years until 2005, when they divorced in a highly publicized breakup.
"We were in sex rehab after one year. I wish I had left then, but I was putting everyone's needs before mine," she tells Parade. "If I hadn't gone through the first breakup and made that promise to myself, this would have leveled me. I would have walked into moving traffic."
Berry credits therapy and counseling for helping her take control of her life. Now she is dating male model Gabriel Aubry, who is 10 years her junior.
"My sights are set on a different chapter in my life, which is motherhood. That's the goal I clearly have set for myself."
Copyright 2007 Reuters. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Find this article at:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/29/people.berry.reut/index.html
Looks like Halles got her a new man:
ten years younger than her too. |
From what I've read she is through with him too |
No, Berry is still dating the same guy. She was on the View last week discussing her relationship. Berry also explained that Parade rehashed the suicide attempt that occurred ten years ago and has been discussed previously (on a Barbara Walters TV special).
I like Berry. She has her life in order now. Also, why is it so shocking that she's dating a younger man? No one blinks an eye if an older man dates a younger woman but it's surprising when a woman is with a younger man? They're both beautiful people. Look at them. Why wouldn't he want to date one of the most beautiful, successful women in the world? Why wouldn't she want to date him? |
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| Quote: | | No one blinks an eye if an older man dates a younger woman but it's surprising when a woman is with a younger man? They're both beautiful people. Look at them. Why wouldn't he want to date one of the most beautiful, successful women in the world? Why wouldn't she want to date him? |
you keep buying into this mythology that mean and women are perfectly equal. One not being inferior to the other does not mean they are equal in every day.
It is quite clear psychologically and biologically that men and women are profoundly different in things such as sexuality.
Congnitive dissonance is a bitch, we have been spoonfed all this perfect equality utopianism...since the 1960's which was not based on real science but speculation and what we want to be.
That is not what is.
No sorry, in no country in the world is it normal, now or historically for significantly older women to be in sexual relationships with much younger less established men.
There are very clear evolutionary reasons for this that goes back before recorded history.
It doesn't mean Halle is "bad" or "weird" but she is not "the norm" her relationship is an "outlier". So it draws attention. |
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| Look around you...it does happen more than before. Demi and Ashton, anyone? Halle is beautiful and Gabriel is good-looking. She might be older than he is but that is irrelevant. She is a youthful 40. |
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| Oh, and lots of women in those relationships would disagree...some of them rediscover their sexuality with younger men who seem to appreciate their maturity. I don't see it as "abnormal"...if older men can be with women young enough to be their daughters, can a woman not do the same? |
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Love the pics, Ty! 
That is a beautiful gown she's wearing. |
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| Posted: Thu 21 Aug 2008 18:50 Post subject: Nahla Ariela Aubry |
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Halle Berry is due anytime now,specifically next month.Although she doesn’t yet know the sex of her baby,Halle thinks it’s a girl because Stevie Wonder’s song “Isn’t She Lovely” keeps playing on her ipod. The celebrity mom-to-be says this about the plausibility of her baby being a girl:
“For some reason, that song keeps coming up on my iPod… even though it’s on shuffle. We’re like, `It’s a girl! It’s a girl!’”
One thing is for sure…Halle Berry’s baby girl or boy will have her boyfriend Gabriel Aubry’s last name.
Nahla, which means “Honeybee” in Arabic, was born on Sunday March 16th, 2008.
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Call it baby's first photo op. On Saturday, Halle Berry's striking, smiley and until now only fuzzily seen 5-month-old daughter Nahla Ariela was captured by a contingent of paparazzi as she hit the Los Angeles Zoo with her mom and grandma (see many more pics of the three generations of Berry women here: http://popsugar.com/1904319 . Not along for the animal outing was Gabriel Aubry, the Oscar winner's model beau, although speculation about their three-year romance has ramped up thanks to the substantial sparkler the actress was flashing on her all-important finger. While her rep isn't commenting, Halle has repeatedly made it clear that after two disastrous marriages (to baseballer David Justice and singer Eric Benet), she considers her bridal days over. "I will never, never get married again," she declared to In Style last year. "Actually, it's just that now I've come to a place where I think two people can share their lives without the ring, without the piece of paper."
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Hmmm, let's see how Nahla looks at age 2.
Feature wise - she looks like Gabriel Aubrey inserted into the backdrop of Halle.
A sorta elfish, Mulattish looking blue eyed Quad.
DAMN! But Halle's father must have been African Black, lol! Or maybe Judith ain't so British after all, lol.
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