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The singer and actress gave Vanity Fair Magazine her first interview since announcing her split from her husband of seven years last month. Even with three marital flops to her credit, Jennifer says she is an “eternal optimist” and describes love as her “biggest dream.”

The 42-year-old — who has three-year-old twins, Max and Emme, with Marc — has learned to walk away from something when it is not right.

“That was my biggest dream, and I really worked hard at it. We both did,” VF contributing editor Lisa Robinson. “Sometimes it doesn’t work—and that’s sad…I am positive—determined to move forward with my life, bring up my babies, and do the best job I can as a mother, entertainer, and person. I now look forward to new challenges. I feel strong.”

But one thing J-Lo says she and Anthony do right is work together. They’ll be doing plenty of that on their Latin-American talent show Que Viva! The musical competition, produced by American Idol’s Simon Fuller, will feature the exes as judges.

“I will always respect Marc as a singer and performer. We actually work great together, and he was always very supportive. Together we could make magic—and we did. He will always be in our lives. He will always hold a special place in my heart as the father of my children.”

The September issue of Vanity Fair arrives on newsstands Aug. 9.

If you’ve ever wanted to pretend you’re in the same room with Kim Kardashian (and really, who hasn’t), this may be the closest you’ll ever get to the fantasy.

World’s Most Beautiful, the first magazine shot entirely in 3-D, will feature the greedy bride-to-be as the cover girl of its inaugural issue — and even she didn’t know about the 3-D thing during the photoshoot.

But she told E! Online that seeing it the first time was “magical,” and added, “It’s like you’re popping out of the screen!”, probably not realizing she could get the exact same effect in real-life with a simple mirror.

The photos were taken in an abandoned mining town, so of course she was required to plunk her ample bare backside down on tetanus-infested rusty nails. Okay, that’s not totally true, but some of the wood planks on that old porch were rough, you guys!

“I got so many splinters, in so many painful places, but I just stayed focused and tried to be sexy,” she said, with a tone more befitting the survivor of an Afghani skirmish than that of a pampered celebrity who had to suffer several fleeting moments of mild discomfort before collecting a massive paycheck for her trouble.

Should you want to feast your eyes on her bodacious splintered ass in 3-D, the magazine will be available Aug. 8 in a limited-edition print version for $4.99, as well as for free on iPads, iPhones and Android phones. (You’ll need special glasses to get the full effect, of course.)

And if you just can’t wait, here’s a sneak-peek of the first issue.

Mila Kunis may have turned into a bombshell film star, but the That ’70s Show alum says being a certified hottie isn’t all King Crab, Sister!

The Black Swan actress, who co-stars with Justin Timberlake in new romantic comedy Friends With Benefits, tells GQ Magazine’s August issue that good-looking women found it hard to be taken seriously.

“The bottom line is if you’re an attractive female in this industry, people just take you as that: attractive. People aren’t getting the opportunity to move beyond being attractive,” Mila told the magazine. “You have no idea how hard it is for a woman in this business. A lot of people don’t even think women are funny. It’s fucked up, but you have to deal with guys like that. I’ve learned to roll with it.”

She added: “It’s not only with comedy. It could be with drama or action or whatever. People are distracted by looks. It happens. I’m not saying it happened to me, but it happens.”

It’s a good thing Mila’s got her unhealthy obsession with Star Trek to help her cope with the perils of being beautiful.

“I’m a massive Trekkie,” Mila confessed after being asked about working with William Shatner in the 2002 film American Psycho 2. “…I got into it in my late teens — 18, 19, 20. Something like that. I got into it later than most people. But let’s not talk about it in the past tense. I’m still a ‘Star Trek’ fan. You never stop being one.”

She even attended a convention boasting memorabilia from the show.

“I went to the Star Trek Experience in Vegas maybe five years ago. I hung out with a bunch of fake characters inside Quark’s bar. There were all these actors there pretending to be the different characters from the different shows. Yes, I loved it.”

Alas, everything The Biebs touches doesn’t turn to gold after all….This is worst then the time we discovered that Santa Claus was just some fat dude with a bizarre obsession with red cashmere.

Justin Bieber may have the Midas Touch that inspires stampedes and sends gaggles of teen girls into mass hysteria, but the boy was a bust as Vanity Fair’s February cover guy. The 17-year-old pop star’s debut on the front of the glossy was the worst-selling issue in more than a decade, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations’ Rapid Report, Women’s Wear Daily (WWD) said Tuesday. To put that into prospective, the cover, featuring Bieber with lipstick smudged on his neck and shirt, sold just 246,000 copies. That’s the lowest figure for a Vanity Fair issue since Will Smith was on the cover to promote his film Wild, Wild West back in 1999. The Bieber Edition was also one of the top three worst sellers for the magazine since Graydon Carter took over as VF editor-in-chief in 1992.

Ouch…The magazine’s bosses, however, are taking the embarrassment in stride.

“Who knew 12-year-olds didn’t buy magazines?” a Vanity Fair spokeswoman quipped following today’s report.

It’s beginning to look like The Banged Messiah’s got as much appeal with magazine readers as a day-old oatmeal. This isn’t the first time a Bieber cover performed poorly, the WWD report said. An Oct. 2010 Teen Vogue with him on the front sold approximately 12 percent fewer copies than the magazine’s average. The pop sensation also failed to move mega issues for PEOPLE.

Lady Gaga took her first magazine cover self-portrait for The Advocate’s August issue while on tour in Germany.

The “Born This Way” singer — who usually counts an unusual knack for dressing up as inanimate objects among her talents — set up the tripod and took this cover photo of herself between sets in Cologne.

“I believe I was destined to be an artist,” Gaga explains in accompanying interview with the gay-friendly publication. “At the end of the day I could be rolling around in Rolls-Royces, buying mansions for myself, making records, and dancing around in my underwear. But to be honest, I’m not interested in doing that at all. I’d rather be at rallies with the fans, being a part of their voice, helping to mobilize and enforce change. If people don’t believe me, they don’t have to be a part of it.”

She adds: “My love for my gay fans is just pure, authentic love for them as supporters of me from the beginning, and me feeling connected to their struggles as someone who is a part of their fight.”

Stylista Emma Watson practically grew up on the set of the Harry Potter movies – so it’s no surprise that the former child star was shot by Cupid for the first time on set!

Turns out mini-Hermione used to get mayjah butterflies over co-star Tom Felton, who plays Draco Malfoy in the wizard series.

“He was my first crush,” Emma tells Seventeen Magazine in an interview for the magazine’s August issue. “He totally knows. We talked about it – we still laugh about it. We are really good friends now, and that’s cool.”

While Tom is in a relationship these days – Emma is still having a tough time finding Mr. Right.

“I’m so impatient – It’s one of my worst traits,” she explains. “If I want to see someone, I want to see them, and if I don’t, then I don’t. My friends are always telling me I have to play hard to get because I’ll pretty much say to a guy, ‘I like you – let’s go hang out. But my friends are like, ‘You can’t do that! You have to string this guy along.’ It’s a nightmare. I definitely haven’t figured it out yet.”