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Penelope Cruz has revealed the inspiration behind her decision to become an actress: watching women in her mother's hairdressing salon.
In an interview for Vanity Fair magazine the 35-year-old Spanish actress, who won a best supporting actress Oscar last year for Vicky Cristina Barcelona, described the salon in Madrid as "mesmerising".
Posing for photos reclining on an unmade bed, she added: "I'd pretend to do homework, but I was observing the women - what they were hiding, how they left feeling a little different. They treated it a bit like a psychologist's office. It was my first acting school."
The notoriously private Cruz also denied reports that she is pregnant. She sparked Hollywood rumours recently when she was reportedly spotted leaving a gynaecologist's office with boyfriend Javier Bardem. Cruz currently stars in Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces and Rob Marshall's Nine.
The November issue of Vanity Fair is out on 6 October.
