aug 13, 2012 - HARPERS BAZAAR Paradis Found: Her Next Chapter VANESSA PARADIS INTERVIEW

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Just two days before the announcement of her separation from Johnny Depp, her companion of 14 years and the father of her two children, Vanessa Paradis is sitting calmly in a hotel on the Normandy coast. It's the last day of the Cabourg Romantic Film Festival, and as paparazzi heave against the velvet ropes erected around the Belle Epoque Grand Hôtel, the actress-singer is perched on a chair in the bar—delicate, big-eyed, her game face on. "Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life," says Paradis, 39. "Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.”

Until recently, Paradis and Depp appeared to have the kind of soul-mate insta-bond that needed no extra effort. "When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier," she says. But, she adds, "you keep learning all the time. Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.”

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