Octavia Spencer Covers ELLE Mag and Talks Bullying

It seems every other day there is a news story about a young kid being bullied in school or a college student succumbing to the effects of being harassed on some social network.      

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Most recently local news anchor Jennifer Livingston has become an overnight celebrity with her response to a "bully" viewer making comments about her weight, which you can view here.

Oscar-winner and ELLE magazine cover girl Octavia Spencer, who directed a short on bullying called The Unforgiving Minute, disagrees with Livingston use of the word bully saying to Jezebel.com: 

"She [Livingston] stood up for herself and I appreciate that. I don't necessarily know that it was bullying." 


The Help star goes on to define bullying as "facing coercion or physical repercussions on a daily basis." Spencer talks about her experience standing up for herself in the early days of her acting career:

“Early on I had to stand up to a producer – I won’t say who, but he is famous, famous.  He dressed me down in a crowded office.  I told him right there in front of a hundred people, ‘You don’t know me well enough to use that tone’…And then I ran to the bathroom and cried like a baby.  But he never addressed me that way again.  And he is known as a yeller."

You can read the entire interview in the October issue of ELLE magazine's "Hollywood Issue." I won't even mention  how she is shutting the game down with this playful, sultry look. The is due out on the shelves October 16. 

MY GIRL CRUSH SALMA HAYEK-PINAULT REAVEALS HER LATEST NUANCES IN SEPTEMBER ISSUE OF INSTYLE

Salma Hayek-Pinault is my kind of women. She is a ballsy trailblazer who has climbed the ranks from illegal immigrant  to Hollywood power player and philanthropist. I have always admired gorgeous women who have brains and depth to boot. I first fell in love with the  petite, Mexican-beauty on her 2002 ELLE cover where she was pubbing her groundbreaking, Oscar-nominated film  Frida,  which is still one of my favorite movies to this day.

Now Hayek-Pinault is debuting her new beauty and skin line Nuance, which is infused and inspired by organic ingredients indigenous to her native Mexico that has kept her and her family youthful for generations, and now she is finally unveiling her beauty secrets with the world.


Get inspired by Salma Hayek-Pinault's sultry, South American style:

"I Love You More Than My Skin" via Polyvore by Me
1.  Nuance Salma Hayek Color Vibrance Lipstick- $9.99, CVS.com
2. DL & Co Bright orange skull candle-£80,  Harveynichols.com
3. Bracelet: Barges-$18, Aldoshoes.com
4. Frida Kahlo T-Shirt- $9.99, Zara.com

"I act tall!" 


- Salma Hayek
 
"I have gotten a lot more attention than...other women that I find incredibly beautiful. And this has happened to me ever since I was a girl, when I was flat, had no teeth, was skinny and small as I could be. I always got more attention than anyone else. If I hadn't, I would have made sure I did."

- Salma Hayek
                                "My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!" - Salma Hayek

"I grew up in Mexico, not the US, and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset."

- Salma Hayek

Nuance  is now available at CVS drugstores nationwide. Read Salma Hayek-Pinault's interview in the September issue of InStyle  magazine.