Rihanna Tells Harper Bazar Magazine: “Im In A Different Place”

Rihanna snags the cover of August 2012 issue of Harper’s Bazaar Magazine. Just a few days ago [Tuesday July 3rd] Ri-Ri was named Woman of the Year by Vogue magazine, and while Ri-Ri is currently mourning the loss of her grandmother, she’s still raking in them check’s.

In the interview Ri-Ri spoke candidly about her body image and how she’d love to gain back her “BOOTY” [which is now gone somehow], her reluctancy to dating [since she’s fallen so deeply in love prior], and how she translates here rebellion of it all in her music, social drinking and smoking, and tattoo’s.

 

Ri-Ri wearing a Calvin Klein fitted white frock. Ri-Ri surely has those “killer eyes”.

 

Check out more photos and excerpts of the mag below:

On Her Rebellious Ways:
“[I’m] rebellious through my music, through my fashion, tattoos, and my hair. I have been conservative in my love life… it’s pretty much nonexistent. If I come across someone who I find really cool, I’ll hang out. But the minute I find that we’re getting too close I just—I don’t let people in.

On Her Reluctancy To Dating [post Chris Brown]:
When I was in love, I fell so hard. I was really, really, really in love. The way it made me feel was priceless. And in a blink of an eye my whole life changed. Everything that I knew was different. I never thought I’d feel that pain in my life. I’m afraid of feeling that again.

On Collaborating With Chris And The Public Perception:
The fans could have said, We don’t want anything to do with it,” she says. But she makes one concession: “I understood that people had every right to be concerned about it. But I didn’t see it that way because I’m in a different place.

Ri-Ri went on to say that she has alot more to accomplish despite people who thinks she’s set her mark already.

I’m still in denial that I’ve proved that, so I have to continue,” she says. “I will not lose.

The August 2012 issue hits newsstands July 17th.

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