Siri Hustvedt (decent writer/doer of Paul Auster) said when she was younger she "carried her beauty in front of her like a torch," but when she got older she felt like her face belonged to her for the first time. I don't know why, but I find that reassuring, I suppose because sometimes youth and beauty can be a burden, especially when you're a lady. I wish I wasn't soooo hot cause it makes my life soooo hard. UGH!
This is Sophie Auster, the spawn, of Siri Hustvedt and Paul Auster:
Check out this profile on Papermag. Yeah, youth and beauty: total pain in the ass, especially when you have famous parents:
Sophie Auster, a giggly, leggy, smoky-eyed chanteuse, actress and model, is the daughter of writers Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt. Like her father, the girl's turned into something of a phenomenon in France. While she's wise beyond her 18 years and world-weary, Auster is also very clearly a college freshman ("Oh, this is my fake ID," she says, proudly placing a Pennsylvania driver's license in my hand). To hammer the point home, at lunch she orders both a cappuccino and a Diet Coke.
Auster's career began at 16 when lit-band One Ring Zero approached her about collaborating on an album. What developed was a collection of classically-themed ballads -- Auster singing the translated works of such poets as Guillaume Apollinaire, Philippe Soupault, Robert Desnos and, of course, Daddy. "It was actually kind of a fluke," she explains. "They said, why don't we make this project, and I said, 'Cool -- I'm game.'" After a French music executive signed Auster to his label, she hit the French airwaves hard. "One of my French friends called me up recently and said, 'You're the big new fad in France.'"
Next up for Auster is a role in The Inner Life of Martin Frost, the film adaptation of her father's book, several singing gigs in Spain and a high-profile modeling gig about which she is not allowed to speak. Oh, and then there's Sarah Lawrence: "For me college is relaxing in a way. I like to watch movies and go to bed while I'm there."
Monday, July 20, 2009 at 9:39PM 
i dunno, looks pretty healthy to meAs an 18 year old (OMG SO LONG AGO I AM OLD), I was a pretty big fan of The O.C. , so obviously I'm taking the news of Barton's troubles hard. Even if she was the show's biggest weakness (for a show that bad, that's really saying something). Actually, I was always more of a Rachel Bilson girl. 
Kate
