Mena suvari where is she now

Her new pattern, then, seems to be playing aging, beautiful women—which can be some of the most nuanced roles of all. We are not really protected. Supporting the E. She is also a vocal supporter of animal rights. But I ultimately wanted more for myself. A few years ago, Suvari began moving into development, with the intention to produce ideas she sells. As a woman? Whatever is coming, Suvari is ready. By Christine Champagne. And before she turned 18, she made the leap to cinema.

After spending five years as a model at the Wihelmina Models New York agency, the actress put her modelling career on hold to dedicate herself to film. After becoming a Hollywood star, Mena Suvari returned to fashion. She got married three times before she was On 18 March , the actress married Robert Brinkmann, a German film photographer. Mena Suvari was 21 while Brinkmann was about to turn In April , the couple divorced. They said it was due to irreconcilable differences. He even had two nuns in the family.

Various media reported that Mena had to cover up her tattoos during the wedding, out of respect for the Sestito family. In , only two years after the ceremony, the couple divorced. After the religious Italian husband, Mena Suvari dated tattoo artist Salvador Sanchez for a few years. They did not get married. In her new memoir The Great Peace , published by Hachette today, Suvari recounts how lonely she truly felt during her often unsupervised tween and adolescent years that preceded her fame.

Between the ages of 12 and 19, she booked nationwide commercials, hooked up with older men with varying degrees of consent , washed down magic mushrooms with Big Gulps, attended raves with lilac-streaked hair and blue corduroy flares, and snorted meth to numb herself—all before she graduated high school. Meanwhile, her appealing looks and increasing success never betrayed her raw unhappiness.

You want 18? No problem. You want 23? Watch me. That age malleability meant she was always contorting herself. That was originally how this started a couple years ago.

I felt like I needed to express myself—I needed to get things out. I went into my office with coffee and I was there for six hours. I just poured everything out, creating what I believed was a treatment. I wanted to share my story, but doubt came in. I felt like I wanted to do something different creatively. So I developed this treatment and have been working with a production company for the last several years to develop this as a series.

It was yay big [spreads fingers an inch wide] of my poems and stories typed up. I wanted to publish that in and of itself. She was using drugs when she was in high school, sometimes even in the school toilets. At the same time, her career was starting to take off. She was signed to Wilhelmina Models, even though she knew there was no way she was "even going to make Kate Moss height", and her family moved to Los Angeles to give her more opportunities.

But still using meth, she fell into a relationship with a guy she met at a rave, who was nine years older than her. In her memoir, she calls him "the devil himself".

She says she slept on a dirty mattress on the floor, and submitted to his demands for "kinky threesomes" at least three or four times a week, ending up with herpes from one of them. She was still in the relationship when she filmed American Beauty , the movie that would make her a star. Lester becomes infatuated with her. Image: Getty. In her memoir, Suvari says Spacey prepared her for an intimate scene by taking her into a small room with a bed and lying next to her, facing her, as he held her.

It was always around a negative, horrible, painful, shameful context. To cope, Suvari "disconnected", splitting her professional self from her real self.