Vanessa Paradis doesn’t worry about ageing

The 38-year-old singer-and-actress – who has children Lily-Rose, 12, and nine-year-old Jack with long-term partner Johnny Depp – has accepted her appearance will alter as she gets older, and isn’t concerned about doing anything to change it because she considers her achievements more important than her looks.

She said: “What do you wanna do? You can pull what you’re gonna pull… But it’s always going to be there – the age and the lack of limberness.

“It’s not about that. It depends what you’ve achieved in your life and where you are at in your life. And it’s not like I’m that old that I can’t look at myself in the mirror. I’m not there yet.”

Vanessa admits she feels more comfortable with herself now than she did in her twenties.

She added to Britain’s Vogue magazine: “I do, for sure, feel much better in my shoes than I did when I was 20.

“Just because you’re more at ease – at peace with yourself. Not that you’ve given up anything. But you’re more accepting of the way you are, and who you are. But I know so many women who feel like that.”

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Johnny Depp has been ordered to get rid of his hats by Vanessa Paradis

The 47-year-old actor – who has previously been voted Hat Person of the Year – is known for his love of headwear but his long-term partner is furious with how out-of-control his accessories collection has become.

A source said: “He has hundreds of hats – two rooms in their Paris apartment packed with them.

“Vanessa wants some closet room but Johnny’s hats are taking up too much space. She told him point-blank, ‘Johnny, you get those hats out of here or when you’re gone, I’m going to throw them all in the trash. ‘

“He was horrified. He loves his hats and he is constantly buying more.”

Vanessa’s ultimatum came after her partner – with who she has children Lily-Rose, 11, and eight-year-old Jack – came home with a hat he’d bought from a homeless person – and the star has now agreed to find somewhere else to store his headwear.

The insider added to National Enquirer magazine: “That was the last straw. Vanessa was livid. She told Johnny he has until the end of the year to clear out the hats.

“But he’s way too fond of them, so he’ll move the bulk of the hats to one of their other homes.”

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Vanessa Paradis doesn’t want to “please everyone”

The French singer-and-actress – who has children Lily-Rose, 11, and seven-year-old Jack with partner Johnny Depp – was upset when she once heard a TV presenter criticise her vocal ability but learned to accept not everyone will enjoy her work.

She said: “A TV presenter was once talking about people he couldn’t stand and one of them was me.

“He said my voice was too quiet; as a singer, that’s a pretty bad thing to hear. But then you can’t please everyone, and I don’t want to.”

The 38-year-old beauty – who shot to fame as a singer aged just 14 – has also spent time as a model for brands such as Miu Miu and Chanel, but doesn’t think it overshadows her other work.

She revealed: “I started in music – and modelling and acting came later, so I don’t think that side of things has made people in the music industry take me any less seriously.

“Anyway, I started at an age when I didn’t look my best – I was only a teenager.”

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Johnny Depp has splashed out on an £8.5 million home in Venice after falling in love with the city during filming last year

The 47-year-old actor spent several months in the Italian city with his family while shooting ‘The Tourist’ with Angelina Jolie and he was reportedly so besotted with the stunning location, he has bought the 17th century Palazzo Dona Sangiantoffetti.

According to local newspaper La Nuova Venezia, the Hollywood star outbid an Arab prince for the empty building which is one of the only available homes overlooking the famous Grand Canal.

Johnny – who has two children Lily-Rose , 11, and eight-year-old Jack with his French partner Vanessa Paradis – has previously spoken of his love for the city and revealed he loved to explore late at night when the streets were quiet.

He said: “My experience of Venice really happened between 10pm and 2am when the streets closed and I was able to walk around and experience the poetry of Venice, the ghosts of Venice, all those wonderful dark alleys.

“For an actor being able to film within the confines of that magical city certainly helps… The city’s magic shone through completely.”

While the actor and his family spent most of their time at their estate in France, he also owns a home in Hollywood and a 45 acre island in the Bahamas.

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Johnny Depp had to be rescued from Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s dog

The 47-year-old actor – who starred with the actress in ‘The Tourist‘ – is not a fan of canines, but agreed to watch the pooch so the couple could go on a romantic date, but soon regretted his kind gesture.

He recalled: “Foolishly I was persuaded to look after their dog Jacques for a night. He’s a huge bulldog. At first I had a terrible feeling, because Jacques smelt horrible.

“But then I told myself, ‘Come on, you will survive one night’. Everything was cool – until I sat down on the bed to take my shoes off. Jacques pounced on me from behind and kept jumping around on me.

“He’s not small. Around 175lbs of dog was hurled at me, which felt like about 300lbs. I shouted for help and luckily someone came to take that beast off me.”

Despite the incident, Johnny did not let it affect his relationship with the couple – who raise six children together – and he and long-term partner Vanessa Paradis, 38, enjoyed being able to socialise with them after filming ended for the day.

He told German magazine TV Movie: “We often went for dinner with them. It was great. I’ve known Brad since the end of the Eighties. It was great to see him as a man and amazing father.”

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Johnny Depp wants to “run away” from modern life

The ‘Tourist’ actor – who has children Lily-Rose, 11, and eight-year old Jack with long-term partner Vanessa Paradis – believes developments in technology and a shift in favoured forms of entertainment have lead to people losing their sense of self.

He explained: “Sometimes I’d like to run away screaming from our technology-obsessed world, the invasive media, the madness of reality TV.

“We’ve lost touch with the simple things of life. We’re losing our individuality.”

Johnny, 47, lives in the south of France with his family, but he and Vanessa, 38, own a Caribbean island where they can retreat for some privacy, which the actor says is crucial to keep him sane.

He told Red Bulletin magazine: “The island might sound extravagant but I need somewhere I can breathe easily or just sit around and chat without someone taking my picture.”

The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ actor used to be famed for his wild partying, and he credits meeting Vanessa 12 years ago with helping him turn his life around.

He said: “Anything I’d done before was kind of an illusion.

“My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

“Now, my greatest hope is that I’ll be fair to the people I love.”

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Johnny Depp doesn’t watch his own films

The 47-year-old actor is uncomfortable watching himself on screen, but admits this pleases his frequent collaborator, director Tim Burton.

He said: “I do my best to avoid my films at all cost.

“Tim likes that I’m not one of those actors that runs up to the monitors between takes to see playback. I’d rather swallow a bag of ticks.”

Asked what it would take to get him to watch himself, Johnny joked to Britain’s OK! magazine: “Probably a few bottles of wine.”

The ‘Tourist’ star – who has children Lily-Rose, 11, and Jack, eight, with long-term partner Vanessa Paradis – insists he is always quite hands-off with the filmmaking process as he trusts the directors and producers to craft his work into the way they want it to be.

He added: “I just know that when they say, ‘You’re done,’ that my services are no longer required. Then basically it’s in the director’s and editor’s hands.

“It’s my job essentially just to give them options to play with. So they make it what they want.”

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Johnny Depp doesn’t like mobile phones

The 47-year-old actor – who has children Lily, 11 and Jack, eight with French singer-and-actress Vanessa Paradis – likes to maintain a low profile and so doesn’t have a mobile phone, but does keep the internet because he thinks it is an “interesting” way to communicate.

He said: “We have internet and stuff like that because I think that’s the safest form, well, most interesting form of communication.

“I just don’t like phones, I just don’t like them. Being reachable all the time.”

Asked how a friend would be able to get in touch with him should they need to, he told Access Hollywood: “You’d have to know how to just buzz me on the internet or something.”

Johnny’s ‘The Tourist’ co-star Angelina Jolie - who raises six children with long-term partner Brad Pitt – recently revealed neither she nor Johnny and Vanessa are particularly social, despite being Hollywood royalty.

She said: “We’re both not that social. I don’t think either one of us goes out of our house, especially in France. We’re both locked away.”

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Vanessa Paradis (born 22 December 1972) is a French singer, model and actress. She became a child star at 14 with the huge worldwide success of her single “Joe le taxi”. Since then, she has accomplished a career in music, movies and modelling.

Vanessa’s first TV appearance was on the show L’École des fans in 1981. She recorded her first single, “La Magie des surprises-parties”, in 1983 and performed it in an Italian festival in 1985 but lost the first prize.

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Vanessa Paradis “can’t believe” other couples have the depth of feelings she has with Johnny Depp.

The French actress-and-singer – who has children Lily-Rose, 1, and eight-year-old Jack with the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ star – claims she fell for the hunk as soon as they met and they connected instantly.

She said: “When we met each other, we just knew – ‘This is the one’. And we were right.

“I can’t believe any two people love the way that we love”.

And Vanessa, 37, revealed that she doesn’t just love the actor for his gorgeous looks.

She added “People might think it’s easy to love someone like him because he’s so gorgeous looking, but the thing about Johnny is that he’s even more gorgeous on the inside.”

Johnny, 47, has previously spoken of his quick attraction to Vanessa, who he has been in relationship with for 12 years.

He said: “I saw her across a room and I thought, ‘What’s happening to me?’ ”

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The ‘Alice in Wonderland’ actor – who lives in Plan-de-la-Tour in southern France with partner Vanessa Paradis and their children Lily-Rose, 10, and seven-year-old Jack – has a dream to create his own alcohol, but would insist on trying it for himself before selling to the public.

He said: “I have a secret desire to make wine. But I’ll keep it for myself before daring to sell it commercially.

“In the Var where I live, it’s very interesting. The region is notable for rose and it’s very good, though I prefer red myself.”

The 46-year-old star credits his family for helping curb his wild ways and admits he would do anything for his kids.

He added to France’s VSD magazine: France has given me everything. A marvellous family and also an equilibrium which I missed enormously.

“With Vanessa and the kids, we live in a sort of little village in the south and I have the impression of being in paradise.

“Everything revolves around the children. ‘Where will we go for a walk? Should we eat at the house with them or maybe go for a picnic?’ These are the problems we face there.”

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