Scarlett: "I Don’t Feel The Obligation To Be A Specific Weight"

Not only does Scarlett Johansson look super sweet and sexy on the cover of Glamour, but she comes across as a very sane, down to earth leading lady as well.

Scarlett doesn't share too much about her marriage to hunky actor Ryan Reynolds, but she has plenty to say about her weight, the media and what it's really like living in the spotlight.

On her body, and being comfortable in her skin, Scarlett says:

I was training for Iron Man 2, which was a lot of work, full-on. I wanted to do a lot of my stunts and to be believable as this superspy, so I started getting fit and eating well and feeling really good. But then there was this rumor mill cranking out stories that I had lost 14 pounds - I could never lose 14 pounds - and was on some miracle diet. I just thought it was ridiculous. I was working my ass off, but I was doing it on my own terms and certainly through no miracle diet. I don’t want to get caught up in that sh*t...I hate seeing these ridiculous articles where [tabloids] guess someone’s weight. But they approach it as fact! I'm sick of it as a woman - not just as a person on the other side of it. As a reader. I got fed up.

I want to look good, obviously. I don’t want to look at the screen and go, 'Oh, my skin looks terrible,' or, 'I look exhausted.' That's why I take care of myself when I work...But I don’t feel the obligation to be a specific weight. I don’t feel like I have to fit into a body that’s not my body. I have the body I have and I try to maintain it.

On how she's avoided being a paparazzi target like Lindsay or Britney:

By not talking about my personal life! I think that makes a big difference. I go to work, I make movies, I publicize them. I hope people enjoy them. I’m not a relationship expert. I’m not a diet and health expert. I don’t know anything except for movies, other than some Trivial Pursuit kind of information."

On getting glam for the red carpet:

I have a tumultuous relationship with it because I love to get ready for the red carpet, but being on it is very uncomfortable. It’s so freakish and weird. I get flop sweats, dry mouth, heart palpitations, allover panic! I did this movie with John Travolta, and every time I looked over at John on the red carpet, he looked so fabulous. So I said to him, “What do you do?” And he said, “I go to Hawaii in my mind."