J
jml2
Guest
she looks a-ma-zing
-
Announcing... The 3rd annual theFashionSpot Awards for 2025. Vote NOW via the links below:
Designer of the Year
Ready-to-Wear Collection of the Year
Haute Couture Collection of the Year
Model of the Year
Photographer of the Year
Stylist of the Year
Magazine Cover of the Year
Ad Campaign of the Year
Thank you for participating!
VOTING WILL CLOSE 30/12/2025 EOD!
Liv Tyler
- Thread starter Belowen
- Start date
style_savy
Active Member
- Joined
- May 2, 2005
- Messages
- 34,724
- Reaction score
- 35
Liv Tyler leaves her West Village townhome in NY (june 6, 2007)
celebutopia
ShoeGal4Eva
Active Member
- Joined
- Dec 29, 2005
- Messages
- 7,586
- Reaction score
- 8
that color is so amazing on her!
she's always smiling and I've never seen her hiding...^^agree..but it looks like she doesnt make it problem
skim_hazelnut_latte
Active Member
- Joined
- Dec 5, 2004
- Messages
- 1,417
- Reaction score
- 0
A very good article on Liv on news.com.au (Sydney's Sunday Telegraph)
Liv Tyler back on the big screen
By Jane Gordon
(June 10, 2007 12:00)
Far from the clichéd Hollywood ice queen, the well-mannered Liv Tyler has managed to find a harmonious balance with her new family. Here, the classic beauty talks about her rock'n'roll childhood and return to the big screen.
Liv Tyler back on the big screen
By Jane Gordon
(June 10, 2007 12:00)
The first thing you notice about Liv Tyler isn’t her beauty (she is, after all, the stunning face of Givenchy Cosmetics) or her stature (she towers in heels) but her perfect manners.
Indeed, there’s something unexpectedly formal – and a little old-fashioned – about the way the 29-year-old actor shakes your hand, inquires after your health and proceeds to worry about whether you would like tea, coffee or iced water.
Everything about her – from the way she walks (as if she has spent years balancing books on her head) to the way she talks (the closest she comes to an expletive is the occasional outburst of ‘oh gosh!’) – is exactly what you wouldn’t expect from a girl whose heritage is pure rock’n’roll (her father is Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and mother is rock muse and Playboy’s Miss November 1974, Bebe Buell).
But, then, as she points out with a ravishing smile, she is also the grand-daughter of Dorothea Johnson, author of The Little Book of Etiquette and founder of the Protocol School of Washington.
“My grandmother raised me to have good manners and it’s something I find really attractive in people. It’s so rare and nice when people follow the basic rules of etiquette. It makes life so much easier,†she says.
Indeed, Tyler is so terribly polite that even though she is keen to talk about cosmetics (she’s passionate about make-up and adores her role with Givenchy), she dutifully answers questions on a number of other topics, most of which seem to lead back to Milo William Langdon, her two-and-a-half-year-old son to her British musician husband, Royston Langdon (formerly with Spacehog and now fronting a new band called Arckid).
Milo’s arrival was a welcome interruption to a working life that started when she became a model at 14 and progressed through to an illustrious acting career that has involved major roles in films including Bertolucci’s Stealing Beauty and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Her decision to take time out to be with her son was, she says with a heartfelt smile, the best thing she’s done and her return to work – she has shot three films since then – has been somewhat of a ‘rebirth’.
“I love being a mum. It’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me. I think I had a lot of anxieties about what it would be like to be the child of someone like me. I didn’t grow up with nannies – I grew up with my mum, my aunt and my grandmother, and I was a little suspicious about what it would be like to go back to work and have a nanny look after Milo. I was thinking, oh gosh, he is going to miss me so much, but he’s fine. I guess taking all that time with him has made him feel safe and secure,†she says.
The only negative thing Tyler can think of is the weight she put on in the period when she ‘hibernated’ with Milo for the first eight months of his life.
“I wasn’t one of those women who just dropped pounds instantly when I was breastfeeding. Actually, I became so homely, I was ravenous for things like doughnuts and cakes," she says.Â*
“I can remember walking down the street one day when Milo was probably six or eight months old, and a photographer took my picture.
"I was wearing a very unflattering shirt and a pair of sweat pants, and when the picture appeared in a magazine, they ran a caption asking if I was pregnant again.
"When I saw it, I said, ‘I think the holiday is over.’†The wake-up call, she says, focused her mind on what needed to be done.
“I did a million different things. I was on a strict protein diet and then a raw diet, and then colonics and fasting. And I did pilates, yoga and worked out with my trainer.
"I rode my bike, I ran, I tried everything under the sun. I have lost a good four-and-a-half kilos, and I feel great. But even though I’m a size 6 (Australian size 8), my back and shoulders are still broad, so there’s no way I will ever be a size 0. I’m really quite sensible about all that,†she says, with a characteristically low laugh.
The fact that Tyler is so sensible can probably be linked back to her grandmother, who was, in a confused childhood scenario, the rock in her early life.
Until she was eight, Tyler believed that her father was musician Todd Rundgren, with whom her mother lived when she was born. But it eventually emerged that Tyler was her biological father.
“I can remember meeting him when I was eight and thinking, wow, his hands look like my hands, we pick our cuticles the same way and we even walk the same way,†she says.
As a child growing up in conservative Maine, she felt like the odd one out, long before she encountered her real father. Although she adored her glamorous, witty mother, she longed for a mum who would more easily fit into the conventional neighbourhood in which she lived.
Buell, who through the years was involved with, among many others, Rod Stewart, Elvis Costello and David Bowie, went on to marry twice (she is currently married to musician Jim Wallerstein).
“It was difficult growing up in Maine. I mean, my name was Liv, and all I wanted was to be called Jessica.
My mum would drive me to school in an old blue car, wearing her nightie, a coat and these big, glamorous sunglasses. If I was being a brat, she would wait for me to walk halfway up the drive to school, then she’d hoot the horn and shout, ‘Bye, honey.’ I just wanted to die.
“Now I adore those parts of her, but I think all children desire to be normal.†Creating her own family life has, to some extent, given her the normalcy she obviously craved as a child. It has also, she says, given her a new perspective on her own parents.
“I’ve made a lot of judgments throughout my life towards my parents – how they did things and why – and now that I’m an adult and a parent, I understand a little more. We all make strange decisions at times and do things people don’t understand.â€
She says this in a way that suggests she was more resentful of her parents’ behaviour (her mother claimed that she put Rundgren’s name on her daughter’s birth certificate because Tyler was taking too many drugs and would have been an unsuitable father) than she has previously let on.
Tyler remains close to both her fathers, but admits that nowadays she puts her own family first.
Indeed, recently she seems to have spent more of her free time with Langdon’s parents – Cynthia and Chester – in their home in Headingley, Leeds, than with her own, rather scattered, family.
“I adore them. It’s so nice for me to stay with them because they’re a normal family. I love Roy’s mother, she’s so beautiful and elegant and an amazing cook," she says.
"She’s been teaching me to cook. We do simple things like go for long walks and go to the pub, and we eat, laugh and relax. Milo absolutely loves them.â€
Tyler is relishing being back at work (she recently completed two films, Smother and The Strangers, which are due for release early next year) and is proud of her involvement in Reign Over Me, her first film since becoming a mother (which was released here in March).
Liv plays a psychiatrist who treats Adam Sandler’s character for post-traumatic stress disorder, after his wife and children are killed in one of the planes involved in the 9/11 tragedy. Although it’s not a huge part, it was very significant for the actor.
“People tend to see me as younger than I am, and it was nice for me – in a silly way – to think, I’m finally playing a grown-up, a doctor. I’m not the ingenue, I’m not the girlfriend, I’m a doctor. That made me really happy,†she says.Â*
Tyler also enjoys her ongoing role as the face of Givenchy Cosmetics in the ads for the company’s make-up, skincare and perfumes. Although she was glad when she moved from modelling to acting, she relishes taking part in the photo shoots for products.
“I love make-up. My grandmother and mother taught me that you should always try to make the best of yourself,†she says.
Over the next few years, Tyler would like to expand her acting repertoire to include more ‘grown-up’ parts and, hopefully, one day, to have a role in a musical. (She auditioned for Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge!. “I sat on a piano and sang ‘Big Spender’, but I didn’t get the role.â€)
She also harbours a desire to go back to college (she had mild ADHD and dyslexia as a child and would love to learn more about history, art and literature) and, ultimately, she would like more children.
“But for the first time in my life, I have no plans," she says.
I always had plans when I was a child; I suppose it was something I did to comfort myself.
"For the first time, I’m happy about not having a plan. I’m just enjoying the love and the security I have,†she says, pausing for a moment as we part to shake my hand again and to inquire, in a gentle voice, whether I have brought an umbrella with me.
Grandmother Johnson would be very proud.
Liv Tyler back on the big screen
By Jane Gordon
(June 10, 2007 12:00)
Far from the clichéd Hollywood ice queen, the well-mannered Liv Tyler has managed to find a harmonious balance with her new family. Here, the classic beauty talks about her rock'n'roll childhood and return to the big screen.
Liv Tyler back on the big screen
By Jane Gordon
(June 10, 2007 12:00)
The first thing you notice about Liv Tyler isn’t her beauty (she is, after all, the stunning face of Givenchy Cosmetics) or her stature (she towers in heels) but her perfect manners.
Indeed, there’s something unexpectedly formal – and a little old-fashioned – about the way the 29-year-old actor shakes your hand, inquires after your health and proceeds to worry about whether you would like tea, coffee or iced water.
Everything about her – from the way she walks (as if she has spent years balancing books on her head) to the way she talks (the closest she comes to an expletive is the occasional outburst of ‘oh gosh!’) – is exactly what you wouldn’t expect from a girl whose heritage is pure rock’n’roll (her father is Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and mother is rock muse and Playboy’s Miss November 1974, Bebe Buell).
But, then, as she points out with a ravishing smile, she is also the grand-daughter of Dorothea Johnson, author of The Little Book of Etiquette and founder of the Protocol School of Washington.
“My grandmother raised me to have good manners and it’s something I find really attractive in people. It’s so rare and nice when people follow the basic rules of etiquette. It makes life so much easier,†she says.
Indeed, Tyler is so terribly polite that even though she is keen to talk about cosmetics (she’s passionate about make-up and adores her role with Givenchy), she dutifully answers questions on a number of other topics, most of which seem to lead back to Milo William Langdon, her two-and-a-half-year-old son to her British musician husband, Royston Langdon (formerly with Spacehog and now fronting a new band called Arckid).
Milo’s arrival was a welcome interruption to a working life that started when she became a model at 14 and progressed through to an illustrious acting career that has involved major roles in films including Bertolucci’s Stealing Beauty and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Her decision to take time out to be with her son was, she says with a heartfelt smile, the best thing she’s done and her return to work – she has shot three films since then – has been somewhat of a ‘rebirth’.
“I love being a mum. It’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me. I think I had a lot of anxieties about what it would be like to be the child of someone like me. I didn’t grow up with nannies – I grew up with my mum, my aunt and my grandmother, and I was a little suspicious about what it would be like to go back to work and have a nanny look after Milo. I was thinking, oh gosh, he is going to miss me so much, but he’s fine. I guess taking all that time with him has made him feel safe and secure,†she says.
The only negative thing Tyler can think of is the weight she put on in the period when she ‘hibernated’ with Milo for the first eight months of his life.
“I wasn’t one of those women who just dropped pounds instantly when I was breastfeeding. Actually, I became so homely, I was ravenous for things like doughnuts and cakes," she says.Â*
“I can remember walking down the street one day when Milo was probably six or eight months old, and a photographer took my picture.
"I was wearing a very unflattering shirt and a pair of sweat pants, and when the picture appeared in a magazine, they ran a caption asking if I was pregnant again.
"When I saw it, I said, ‘I think the holiday is over.’†The wake-up call, she says, focused her mind on what needed to be done.
“I did a million different things. I was on a strict protein diet and then a raw diet, and then colonics and fasting. And I did pilates, yoga and worked out with my trainer.
"I rode my bike, I ran, I tried everything under the sun. I have lost a good four-and-a-half kilos, and I feel great. But even though I’m a size 6 (Australian size 8), my back and shoulders are still broad, so there’s no way I will ever be a size 0. I’m really quite sensible about all that,†she says, with a characteristically low laugh.
The fact that Tyler is so sensible can probably be linked back to her grandmother, who was, in a confused childhood scenario, the rock in her early life.
Until she was eight, Tyler believed that her father was musician Todd Rundgren, with whom her mother lived when she was born. But it eventually emerged that Tyler was her biological father.
“I can remember meeting him when I was eight and thinking, wow, his hands look like my hands, we pick our cuticles the same way and we even walk the same way,†she says.
As a child growing up in conservative Maine, she felt like the odd one out, long before she encountered her real father. Although she adored her glamorous, witty mother, she longed for a mum who would more easily fit into the conventional neighbourhood in which she lived.
Buell, who through the years was involved with, among many others, Rod Stewart, Elvis Costello and David Bowie, went on to marry twice (she is currently married to musician Jim Wallerstein).
“It was difficult growing up in Maine. I mean, my name was Liv, and all I wanted was to be called Jessica.
My mum would drive me to school in an old blue car, wearing her nightie, a coat and these big, glamorous sunglasses. If I was being a brat, she would wait for me to walk halfway up the drive to school, then she’d hoot the horn and shout, ‘Bye, honey.’ I just wanted to die.
“Now I adore those parts of her, but I think all children desire to be normal.†Creating her own family life has, to some extent, given her the normalcy she obviously craved as a child. It has also, she says, given her a new perspective on her own parents.
“I’ve made a lot of judgments throughout my life towards my parents – how they did things and why – and now that I’m an adult and a parent, I understand a little more. We all make strange decisions at times and do things people don’t understand.â€
She says this in a way that suggests she was more resentful of her parents’ behaviour (her mother claimed that she put Rundgren’s name on her daughter’s birth certificate because Tyler was taking too many drugs and would have been an unsuitable father) than she has previously let on.
Tyler remains close to both her fathers, but admits that nowadays she puts her own family first.
Indeed, recently she seems to have spent more of her free time with Langdon’s parents – Cynthia and Chester – in their home in Headingley, Leeds, than with her own, rather scattered, family.
“I adore them. It’s so nice for me to stay with them because they’re a normal family. I love Roy’s mother, she’s so beautiful and elegant and an amazing cook," she says.
"She’s been teaching me to cook. We do simple things like go for long walks and go to the pub, and we eat, laugh and relax. Milo absolutely loves them.â€
Tyler is relishing being back at work (she recently completed two films, Smother and The Strangers, which are due for release early next year) and is proud of her involvement in Reign Over Me, her first film since becoming a mother (which was released here in March).
Liv plays a psychiatrist who treats Adam Sandler’s character for post-traumatic stress disorder, after his wife and children are killed in one of the planes involved in the 9/11 tragedy. Although it’s not a huge part, it was very significant for the actor.
“People tend to see me as younger than I am, and it was nice for me – in a silly way – to think, I’m finally playing a grown-up, a doctor. I’m not the ingenue, I’m not the girlfriend, I’m a doctor. That made me really happy,†she says.Â*
Tyler also enjoys her ongoing role as the face of Givenchy Cosmetics in the ads for the company’s make-up, skincare and perfumes. Although she was glad when she moved from modelling to acting, she relishes taking part in the photo shoots for products.
“I love make-up. My grandmother and mother taught me that you should always try to make the best of yourself,†she says.
Over the next few years, Tyler would like to expand her acting repertoire to include more ‘grown-up’ parts and, hopefully, one day, to have a role in a musical. (She auditioned for Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge!. “I sat on a piano and sang ‘Big Spender’, but I didn’t get the role.â€)
She also harbours a desire to go back to college (she had mild ADHD and dyslexia as a child and would love to learn more about history, art and literature) and, ultimately, she would like more children.
“But for the first time in my life, I have no plans," she says.
I always had plans when I was a child; I suppose it was something I did to comfort myself.
"For the first time, I’m happy about not having a plan. I’m just enjoying the love and the security I have,†she says, pausing for a moment as we part to shake my hand again and to inquire, in a gentle voice, whether I have brought an umbrella with me.
Grandmother Johnson would be very proud.
cuppycakes
Active Member
- Joined
- Feb 7, 2006
- Messages
- 1,056
- Reaction score
- 1
i love her hair
BadHairDay
Member
- Joined
- May 23, 2005
- Messages
- 611
- Reaction score
- 0
I can't believe that she's a UK size 6?!?
I just did a google search on australian size 8 and it gives the Uk equivalent as a size 6...that can't be right can it?
dont get me wrong i think shes absolutely gorgeous, but im not sure shes that small
ShoeGal4Eva
Active Member
- Joined
- Dec 29, 2005
- Messages
- 7,586
- Reaction score
- 8
i think she meant us siz6 ,that i can see
Belowen
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
- Joined
- Apr 11, 2003
- Messages
- 25,729
- Reaction score
- 64
Wow, she is an Australian size 8? My tiniest friend borders on that (and so did I back in the day, now I am averaging a 10) I would put her at about 10-12 Australian. But I guess pictures never show true form do they.
I've seen her grandmother on Ellen before, she's so lovely
I've seen her grandmother on Ellen before, she's so lovely
J
jml2
Guest
I think the Aust size 8 measure is wrong
this table says US 6 = Aus 10
http://www.asknumbers.com/ClothingWomensConversion.aspx
this table says US 6 = Aus 10
http://www.asknumbers.com/ClothingWomensConversion.aspx
Last edited by a moderator:
Sebastiana
Member
- Joined
- Mar 24, 2006
- Messages
- 242
- Reaction score
- 0
She said recently in an interview (the scans are in this thread a few pages back) that she's a US size 4 for the first time in her life. (She went to Marc Jacobs to buy a dress and ended up getting a size 4.) A US 4 is an AUS 8.
Captain_Lydia
Active Member
- Joined
- May 21, 2005
- Messages
- 6,616
- Reaction score
- 2
She's a size 4 and she's considered the "fat girl" in hollyweird?! 
Yikes, there's no hope for humanity.
Yikes, there's no hope for humanity.
Working Girl
Active Member
- Joined
- Jun 3, 2007
- Messages
- 1,092
- Reaction score
- 1
Milo is seriously going to be a heartbreaker. He is gorgeous. He has his mother's lips.
She's a size 4 and she's considered the "fat girl" in hollyweird?!
Yikes, there's no hope for humanity.
Great pics. Milo is beautiful!
Similar Threads
Users who are viewing this thread
New Posts
-
-
-
-
Elle France January 1, 2026 : Nyakong Chan by Sofia Sanchez & Mauro Mongiello (9 Viewers)- Latest: MModa