Anna Kournikova: "I'm Not Married, Not Pregnant, Didn't Have A Boob Job"
In an interview with 'Sports Illustrated', the now 27-year-old Kournikova says that she's enjoying life outside the public eye, except when she goes out with her longtime boyfriend, singer Enrique Iglesias: "Girls look at him. Guys look at me." "It goes with the job, but it gets annoying when you feel violated," she says. "Just take the picture and be done." And even though she's best known for her looks, Kournikova's not afraid of getting older: "Why are people afraid of getting older?," she asks. "You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!" Kournikova reached as high as eighth in the singles rankings and in 1999 was the world's top doubles player at one point, but it's well documented she win a single tournament during her career: "In a perfect world, would I have won a tournament? Yes. But I wasn't able to string those matches together. Sometimes I got unlucky, and sometimes I just lost." But she doesn't have any regrets: "Not a thing. Except to be a little stronger physically. Come on, regrets? I grew up a little girl in the Soviet Union playing at a small sports club. Tennis gave me my life."
Anna Kournikova (photos
) has been out of the spotlight since leaving professional tennis but she wants her fans to know not much has changed: "I'm not married, not pregnant, didn't have a boob job, and no Botox."
July 15, 2008 | |
