Ashton Kutcher In Parade Magazine

 

Ashton Kutcher is the cover boy of this Sunday, August 2, 2009 issue of Parade Magazine.

In the issue he chats about  how he handles the stress of fame and even talks a bit about his wife Demi Moore and how they make it work.

On fame: “Once I got a taste of it, I went: ‘I can do anything. I can do absolutely anything.’ And you start to believe it. I know it to be true because I’ve seen it happen. I’ve experienced it. I’m ambitious. I try to make it look like it’s not work–that’s the biggest key. I’ve got it pretty good. There’s no sense in making life seem like it’s a struggle, because that doesn’t make anybody feel better.”

On how he and Demi make things work:  “The real trick is putting yourself around people you admire. That’s why I married my wife. I locked in the brightest light in the room. My wife and I have an agreement in our marriage, and part of that contract is that we are going to shine our lights on each other. My relationship with Demi is so solid, thank God, and we’re so communicative about the way that we’re feeling that we don’t allow space to come between us. I definitely believe that if you stop working at relationships, they go away.”

On the downside of Hollywood:  “Of course there is a price. I’ve only been back home to Iowa once in the last year and a half to see my family.  I go and shoot a film and spend months away from my wife and my girls. And that’s a price to pay.  I also don’t get to see my friends very often. You can’t complain when you’re so blessed. I get so many things that the notion of me complaining is obscene. It’s absurd. It’s ridiculous.”

On back when times were tough:  “When I told my dad I was going to move to New York and be a model, he didn’t say I was an idiot, but he insinuated it. After a while, I was broke, really running out of money. Christmas was coming. I knew I had to go home for the holidays, but I couldn’t expose the fact that it wasn’t going well. So I bought my whole family these fake watches and fake Versace pants and fake anything I could find, like fake Calvin Klein T-shirts, so I could take them home and show them how well I was doing even though I didn’t even have a place to live. I knew I wasn’t going back to Cedar Rapids.

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