Celebrity Chatta

Freida Pinto is featured on one of the three covers for the May 2011 issue of Glamour Magazine.

In the issue:

Freida talks about breaking up with a previous boyfriend when her career was heating up:

“I’ve learned to develop a thick skin, but you’re bound to be affected when you read something bad about yourself in the paper and it’s rubbed in your face over and over. Once, I was at a Tube station in London, and some Indian-Asian guy came up to me and said, “Oh, it’s the ‘dump-dog’ millionaire.” These things happen in life. Forget about celebrities; [breakups] happen to college students, to people who’ve been in relationships for 20 years.”

She also talks living a normal life while in India:

“Here you have to do Bollywood films to be recognized, so I’m lucky. In the morning, I jog around the park with my sister in our building’s complex. She keeps making fun of me because I wear big sunglasses: “Oh, it’s the celebrity Freida Pinto with her big sunglasses on.” And I say, “I’m doing it to protect my eyes from the sun!”"

Freida also talks making things work with her current boyfriend and Slumdog Millionaire co-star Dev Patel:

“We recently realized we need a rule like that, because every time we think we’re going to be together, something work-related comes up. But we can’t put our careers on hold for this. We’re not at the stage where we have the privilege to turn things down. So we’ll say, “You have two days off? Let’s find a way to meet up.” I think you can always make it work if you want to.”

Her new film Miral released March 25. Her next film Rise of the Apes co-stars James Franco and releases August 5, 2011.

Photo: Matthias Vriens-McGrath for Glamour Magazine