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| • | "as she takes a long drag on her cigarette", US Weekly, June '93, p. 33
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| • | "she very seriously lights a cigarette", London Observer (Life Magazine) (UK), Mar. 31, '96
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| • | Elle Magazine, Jun. '96
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| • | "while no young lady in polite Austen society would dream of being seen smoking in the street, actress Kate Beckinsale could not resist a quick cigarette between takes" (during filming of Jane Austin's Emma), Daily Mail (UK), Jul. 11, '96
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| • | Daily Telegraph, Nov. 23, '96
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| • | "smiles and lights up a cigarette", Daily Telegraph (UK), Nov. 23, '96
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| • | "Her coat had a jagged hole because, finding herself smoking in a no-smoking area, she had hastily shoved a lighted cigarette in her pocket", New York Times, Feb. 16, '97
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| • | same, New York Times, Feb. 16, '97
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| • | "reaching for the first of several Silk Cuts", The Independent (UK), Apr. 5, '97
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| • | "She pauses to light a cigarette", Premiere Magazine (UK), Oct. '97
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| • | "Silk Cuts, gold lighter, clutch bag", GQ Magazine (UK), Nov. '97
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| • | Entertainment Weekly, Jun. 26, '98
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| • | "takes an elegant drag of her Silk Cut", Miarabelle, Jun. '98
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| • | same, Mirabella, Jun. '98
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| • | "How did you warm yourself up to play Charlotte in 'The Last Days of Disco'? 'Cigarettes'", Deluxe, Sep. '98
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| • | "Kate Beckinsale's a happy and proud smoker - because now she's given birth to her daughter she's only putting her own health at risk. The actress gave up smoking for the full nine months while she was pregnant with her two-year-old daughter. But now her child is no longer living in her body, she's taken up the filthy, dirty habit again - and rather enjoys it. She says, 'I gave up while I was pregnant. I know it's pathetic, but I find it exhilarating. I'm free to f*ck up my own body again'", World Entertainment News Network, Mar. 26, '01 |
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| • | "I gave up [smoking] while I was pregnant. I know it's pathetic, but I find it exhilarating. I'm free to f*ck [sic] up my own body again.", website, Mar. '01
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| • | "We adjourn outside to the dock. She takes out a Marlboro Light. 'I gave up while I was pregnant, but now the baby is 2. I know it's pathetic, but I find it exhilarating. I'm free to fuck up my own body again.' She exhales smoke and asks what we were talking about", Details Magazine, Apr. '01, p. 141 |
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| • | on smoking after pregnancy: "I know it's pathetic, but I find it exhilarating. I'm free to f--- up my own body again.", US Weekly, Apr. 16, '01, p. 22 |
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| • | "Oh, and the pack of Marlboro Lights which she rather furtively puts on the table as soon as her skimmed milk decaffeinated cappuccino arrives", Daily Telegraph (Telegraph Magazine) (UK), May 12, '01 |
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| • | "she can outsmoke the band and curses like a sailor", Entertainment Weekly, May '01 |
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| • | "she also smokes to beat the band", Entertainment Weekly, Jun. 1, '01 |
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| • | "'busted' by a security guard for smoking in a non-smoking area", Daily Mail (UK), Jun. 1, '01 |
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| • | "We hear that Pearl Harbor star Kate Beckinsale wasn't too good about following orders aboard the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier during the film's press junket in Hawaii. The English beauty lit up in the ship's restricted non-smoking areas, ignoring instructions not to, until she was duly reprimanded. ", People Magazine, Jun. 1, '01 |
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| • | "lighting another cigarette", Esquire (UK), Jun. '01, p. 134 |
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| • | "A Diet Coke and Marlboro Lights are ordered, and she sparks one up", Esquire (UK), Jul. '01 |
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| • | "Life's obviously not too much of a drag for Kate Beckinsale who even looks glamorous when she sneaks off for a cigarette. The Pearl Harbor actress was keeping a sharp eye on two-year-old daughter Lily at a playground in Santa Monica", Daily Star (UK), Sep. 4, '01 |
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| • | "she's been known to curse like a sailor on movie sets and was a chain-smoker before giving birth to her daughter, Lily, in 1999", BPI Entertainment News, Sep. 19, '01 |
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| • | "I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, so it's only a couple of years before I'm an old hag. But God, can you imagine? I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring", Sunday Mirror (UK), Sep. 23, '01 |
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| • | "The type of guy I chose to fall in love with growing up was the guy most likely to break my heart in a thousand places. I was of the black-coffee-and-cigarettes inclination, so if someone was a treacly poet with sunken cheeks and a troubled history, I loved him", InStyle Magazine, Sep. '01 |
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| • | "she's been known to curse like a sailor on movie sets and was a chain-smoker before giving birth to her daughter, Lily, in 1999", Bergen County Record, Oct. 4, '01 |
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| • | "'Of course, I cuss like a sailor, and I smoke like a chimney,' she said. Just to prove one-half of her confession, she lit a cigarette and blew a smoke ring into the air", Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, Oct. 5, '01 |
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| • | "Beckinsale had a tumultuous adolescence, including a bout of anorexia (cured) and a heavy smoking habit (not cured)", Sunday Telegraph (UK), Nov. 18, '01 |
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| • | "What Kate did next: How did a smoking, non-driving, Chomsky-reading young Brit come to charm America in a Christmas romance? Kate Beckinsale explains all ... She is something of an original in LA, being both a smoker, a breed that comes second only to al-Qaeda in terms of public disapprobation", The Observer (UK), Dec. 16, '01
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| • | "Beckinsale had a tumultuous adolescence, including a bout of anorexia (cured) and a heavy smoking habit (not cured)", Sunday Herald Sun (Australia), Dec. 16, '01 |
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| • | "Inside the [Vanity Fair] party, Kate Beckinsale was smoking up a storm", MSNBC Living (Jeannette Walls), Mar. 25, '02
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| • | "she smokes", Evening Standard (UK), Sep. 19, '02 |
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| • | "she sat outside smoking endless cigarettes", Daily Mail (UK), Mar. 27, '03 |
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| • | "After a tumultuous adolescence, (a bout of anorexia{cured} and a smoking habit which contiues to this day) she gradually took up the profession of acting.", Actressgallery.com, Jun. 15, '03
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| • | "It seems her only vice is smoking, and even that she is about to give up. 'I know, it's kind of boring, but I'm a bitch now, so I can be a non-smoking bitch, and it'll be fine'", Sunday Times (UK), Aug. 24, '03 |
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| • | "As soon as I got pregnant I gave up smoking and I didn't smoke again for three years. Then I saw Uma Thurman smoking at a big event and that got me started again", Daily Express (UK), Aug. 28, '03 |
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| • | "At the Underworld premiere at L.A.'s dressed-up Hollywood Athletic Club, star Kate Beckinsale looked resplendent and innocent in a white frock. Between drags on a cigarette, Beckinsale said, 'I don't love [the mythos of] werewolves and vampires'", E! Online, Sep. 19, '03
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| • | "I do smoke, though. I'd be insufferable if I didn't!", Newcastle Journal (UK), Oct. 9, '03
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| • | "the death of her father led to a minor teenage crisis. 'If something happens when you are young, it takes a long time to get used to it,' she says. 'And I went off the rails. The usual dreaded things - smoking too early and having a short anorexic phase'", Evening Gazette (UK), Oct. 11, '03 |
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| • | "the girl who was by her own admission, 'always bunking off PE to have a fag'", Empire magazine, Oct. '03 |
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| • | "when the PE classes were being taught at school, she was 'usually outside, smoking'", The Age (Australia), Jan. 21, '04
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| • | "In 1993 Kenneth Branagh took the heavy smoker out of Oxford University, where she was studying French and Russian literature, into his internationally highly acclaimed Shakespearean adaptation 'Much Ado About Nothing' - only to deliver her back immediately afterwards to the university door. Before Kate first crossed the Atlantic, she enjoyed a student year in Paris, where she slept in, went to the cinema a lot, and discovered unfiltered fags", German film site, Jan. 29, '04
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| • | "looks puffed out as she smokes a cigarette after a session at a Los Angeles gym", Scottish Daily Record (UK), Mar. 27, '04
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| • | "Keeping fit's a drag, Kate. Kate Beckinsale remembers to inhale and exhale during a trip to the gym with a crafty cig after her workout. The Pearl Harbor actress, 30, bowled straight out the LA studio in hot pants, leant on a car and lit up alongside film director fiancé Len Wiseman. We dont think thats what your trainer meant by 'Do another 20,'", w/pic, The Sun (UK), Mar. 27, '04
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| • | "Kate Beckinsale rounds off a hectic keep-fit session at an LA gym - by puffing on a cig. But onlookers reckoned Kate, 30, still looked smokin' hot", The Mirror (UK), Mar. 27, '04 |
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| • | "a heavy smoking habit", Daily Express (Saturday magazine) (UK), May 1, '04 |
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| • | "Are you a sporty person? 'Fuck no. All I ever did at school was bunk off PE and go and smoke a cigarette in the loo'", The Mirror (UK), May 7, '04 |
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| • | "Smoking isn't doing her skin any favours, but it's part of her social life. 'It's only a couple of years before I'm an old hag but I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke ... All I did at school was bunk off PE and smoke in the loo'", The Mirror (UK), Jun. 3, '04 |
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| • | "And then there's Kate Beckinsale, who likes to have a puff after workouts", E! Online, Jun. 19, '04
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| • | "may be trying to dismiss rumours that she is pregnant again by smoking. Speculation is sweeping Hollywood that the actress, who married husband Len Wiseman in May, is expecting her second child. But the star's crafty cigarette as she walked on Venice Beach, may be her way of denying it. She managed to quit for nine months while expecting her first daughter Lily. And there is no doubt that if she knew she was pregnant again, she would have given up the habit straight away", Scottish Daily Record (UK), Oct. 12, '04
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| • | "Kate Beckinsale had a crafty fag during a photoshoot at Venice Beach, California", Daily Star (UK), Oct. 12, '04 |
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| • | "According to pals, Brit actress Kate Beckinsale moved to Los Angeles to help her give up smoking. 'Kate's hoping LA's strict anti-smoking laws will force her to pack the habit in,' says an insider o nThe Aviator. The 31-year-old beauty has been puffing away on the cigs since her teens, but has been desperate to stop since the birth of her daughter Lily, now five. Might have been less upheaval just to buy some nicotine patches, Kate.", Sunday Mirror (UK), Dec. 12, '04 |
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| • | "When Beckinsale was nine, her mother, the television actress Judy Loe, moved in with the director Roy Battersby, who had four teenage boys of his own. Despite initial horror, she soon settled in and her stepbrothers taught her to smoke cigarettes and swear", The Independent (UK), Dec. 17, '04
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| • | "is dreading the arrival of New Year's Eve - because she always tries to give up smoking and fails within hours. While many people look forward to toasting the New Year, Beckinsale - who is spending the holidays in her native London - always looks forward to when it's over. She says, 'I hate New Year's Eve with a passion because there is such pressure to have a good time. Normally I'm just relieved it's over. The next day I'll give up smoking for about seven hours and then think, 'I can't have a year as rotten as these seven hours.' That's about it, really'", website, Dec. 21, '04
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| • | "Her teen years were scarred with anorexia, long since cured, and a smoking habit which she has tried to stop", The Express (UK), Jan. 4, '05 |
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| • | "If I didn't smoke, I'd be so boring you'd have to push me off a balcony", The Observer (UK), Jan. 9, '05
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| • | "at a restaurant in Malibu ... as soon as she had polished off her food, Beckinsale lit up a cigarette from the box she had been clutching ever so tightly throughout her meal", Daily Star (UK), Jul. 5, '05 |
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| • | "Kate Beckinsale shows that when the chips are down - she'll eat them and puff on a cigarette at the same time", Daily Record, Jul. 5, '05 |
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| • | "after another workout she decided to take a smoke break. How does this make any sense Kate? Shouldn't you be having a piece of fruit or some protein shake. A cigarette after a workout is just gross and I can't believe her trainer is so cool with it", Popsugar.com, Dec. 11, '05
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| • | "But how do you go from working out, and getting into shape oneminute, to smoking a cigarette in the gym parking lot a minute later? Iguess Kate Beckinsale's work out regimen is less an issue of health, andmore of body image.", Egotastic, Dec. 12, '05
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| • | "wants to hide her sexy curves under a burkha. The stunning actress claims Hollywood stars need disguises to avoid being hounded by fans - and thinks a non-religious 'celebrity burkha' would be ideal...But the 'Aviator' star admitted there might be a flaw in the plan, adding: 'Hold on - how do you smoke a fag in a burkha? We might have to fit a little hole in the design'", Female First (UK), Jan. 5, '06
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| • | "is so fed up with the media attention on her figure that she is considering wearing a 'non-religious celebrity burkha' to keep prying eyes away... However, the sexy 'Underworld' actress does want one small change in the outfit. She wants it to come with a hole so that she will still be able to enjoy her cigarettes. 'Hold on - how do you smoke a fag in a burkha? We might have to fit a little hole in the design,' she added", New Kerala (India), Jan. 6, '06
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| • | quit - "quit smoking and embarked on a gruelling training programme to get fit for the role [in Underworld: Evolution]", Scottish Daily Record, Jan. 13, '06
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| • | "But while she still isn't a big party girl, she says she does have one big vice. 'I do smoke', she says. 'I'd be insufferable if I didn't. You'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring'", Liverpool Daily Post (UK), Jan. 14, '06 |
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| • | "Thirty-two-year-old British actress Kate Beckinsale dons the vampire suit again for the sequel 'Underworld: Evolution.' She spoke with Newsweek's Nicki Gostin. Q: You're a smoker. Do you think in L.A. it's more acceptable to be a crackhead than a smoker? A: Yes, and in fact now I have switched to crack. [Laughs]", Newsweek, Jan. 30, '06 |
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| • | "Beckinsale said she would be keen to cover up her face and lovebumps with the Muslim garment, in order to avoid detection by the papps and public. She said, 'I could cause all kinds of havoc in a burka'. But Katequickly sprung upon a potential problem with her grand plan: 'Hold on - how do you smoke a fag in a burka?' she worried, before deciding: 'We might haveto fit a little hole in the design'", GQ Magazine, Jan. '06 |
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| • | "Her accent is resolutely British, her ready cackle tinged bycigarettes", Tatler (UK), Feb. '06 |
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| • | "Despite winning a tough, prolonged battle against annorexia, she is yet to make any progress in cutting down on her unhealthy smoking habit - 'I have tried giving up but it never works. I made a real effort to give up last New Year but after about 6 hours I couldn't bear it any longer, the pain was worse than giving birth. I was desperate for a cigarette so I smoked my last 2 packets in a couple of hours and then went out and bought myself some more cigarettes as a treat for managing to get through 6 hours without one. The stupid thing is I ended up smoking more the day I gave up for 6 hours than I would on a normal day, and I'm actually smoking more now than before I tried to give up. But who knows, maybe next time I could do 10 hours, but I don't really fancy suffering that agony ever again.'", Heat (UK), Mar. 21, '06 |
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| • | "just fags and mags to keep her company", Daily Mirror (UK), Jun. 6, '06
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| • | "The 32-year-old spent an astonishing nine hours at a leading salon so her mane of thick brown hair looked perfect for the MTV event ... [she] broke up her marathon beauty session by occasionally popping out to smoke a cigarette and reading a magazine", Daily Mail (UK), Jun. 6, '06
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| • | "broke up the marathon preening session with regular cigarette breaks", Life Style Extra (UK), Jun. 6, '06
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| • | "Kate Beckinsale spent nine hours getting the perfect haircut before going to the MTV Movie Awards ... The British actress broke up the marathon preening session with regular cigarette breaks", All Headline News, Jun. 6, '06
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| • | "TV director Roy Battersby, whose four teenage sons taught Kate to smoke and swear like a trooper", The Mirror (UK), Jun. 12, '06
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| • | "When Beckinsale was nine her mother, the actress Judy Loe, moved in with and later married television director Roy Battersby, whose four teenage sons taught Kate to swear and smoke cigarettes", Daily Telegraph (UK), Sep. 16, '06
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| • | "HOW DO YOU STAY IN SHAPE? I have to be dragged to the gym because Ihated PE at school and would much prefer to sit down and smoke a cigarette",Daily Mail (UK), Oct. 15, '06
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| • | quit - "The woman who was always so proud of her rampant love of nicotine has even given up the cigarettes because, of course, no one in Los Angeles smokes any more. 'Californi-what?' she asks, with a sardonic smile. 'Oh Christ, I hope not. OK, the smoking I'll give you, but I didn't give it up simply to fit in, I just lost the compulsion'", The Bosh, Nov. 10, '08
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| • | quit - "The woman who was always so proud of her rampant love of nicotine has even given up the cigarettes because, of course, no one in Los Angeles smokes any more. 'Californi-what?' she asks, with a sardonic smile. 'Oh Christ, I hope not. OK, the smoking I'll give you, but I didn't give it up simply to fit in, I just lost the compulsion. Honest. Otherwise, I'm still very much the girl from Chiswick, alright?' ... Beckinsale was anorexic at 15, though, whittling down to just five stone, existing on little more than cigarettes and angst.", Elle (UK), Dec. '08 |
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| • | "Kate Beckinsale sneaks a quick cigarette behind her car door and then quickly puts it out.", w/pics, Celebs-fashion.net, Jan. 19, '09
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| • | quit - "I don't smoke", Esquire, Oct. '09
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| • | "After the movie, Kate and her husband walked the streets of Santa Monica and Kate smoked a cigarette.", Purepeople.com, Nov. 9, '09
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| • | "Kate's move to LA to kick butts. English actress Kate Beckinsale's reason for moving to California - to allow her Underworld director husband Len Wiseman to work full-time in Hollywood - is a smokescreen. The truth is she is desperate to give up smoking, and is hoping the strict anti-smoking laws in LA will help her kick the dirty habit for good. The 31-year-old Aviator star has been addicted to cigarettes since her teens, and has tried hard to give up, especially since the birth of her daughter Lily, now 5. 'Kate admits she's a nicotine addict,' says our source. 'She is desperate to give up, and she's told friends that living in LA, with its strict anti-smoking climate, will force her to pack it in' ", website, when?
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| • | "What are your vices? 'I hate to admit it but I began smoking again. I pretty much gave up for 3 years, as soon as I got pregnant, and then I remember seeing Uma Thurman at some event and she was smoking and that just got me going again. It looked so much fun'", Internet Movie Database, when?
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| • | "a fairly chronic smoking habit, which she currently maintains", Absolute Now website biography, when?
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| • | "toys: cigarettes, cigarettes, cigarettes", Peoplenews.com, when?
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| • | "I do smoke, though; I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke. You'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring", Maxim Online, when?
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| • | "MOVIE beauty Kate Beckinsale has really hit the cig time. The 30-year-old Van Helsing star was puffing away after leaving her agent’s office in Beverly Hills with a bundle of film scripts. Not many stars would want to be seen with a cigarette drooping from their lips.", website, when?
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