It is a dramatic departure from her usual image as the quintessential English rose. Keira Knightley, more commonly seen in the bonnets and bustles of period dramas, poses provocatively in a series of outfits that leave little to the imagination. The actress wears nothing more than a low-cut jumper, high heels and blood red lipstick in one shot, while in another, she shows off her long legs as she reclines on a chaise longue in a 1950s-style swimming costume.

Perhaps Miss Knightley was getting into the spirit of her latest role in A Dangerous Method, which she almost turned down after telling director David Cronenberg that some scenes were too risqué. She told an interviewer: “I said, I love you, I love the script. But I don’t think it’s something I can do, so I might have to turn it down. Once he said he didn’t want it to be sexy or voyeuristic, and as soon as I got my head around the S&M mentality, I said, ‘Okay, let’s do it’.” Miss Knightley also spoke about how different the perceptions are of her in both America and her home country. She explained: “The Americans are generally a lot more supportive. They generally like the work a lot more than they do here. It is what it is, I suppose. It could just be that I’m not to a lot of people’s tastes. Which is fine.” The actress has been dating musician James Righton, 28, from the band Klaxons, for almost a year. Her last relationship with Pride & Prejudice co-star Rupert Friend ended in December 2010 after five years.

— Daily Mail

‘I want a baby’

Singer Lady GaGa may have a lot of accessories but it turns out her life is missing one thing, a baby. The Born This Way songstress has revealed she wants a child, but in her usual style has divulged a series of demands, including the father must be Italian and conception would be through artificial insemination. It isn’t clear how her American boyfriend actor and model Taylor Kinney, who was raised in Neffsville, Pennsylvania, feels about the revelations. At just 25 years old Gaga, real name Stefani Germanotta, is notoriously private about her love life. But she told Spain’s Radio Ibiza she was looking for a partner to have a child with, but they must share her Italian and Sicilian roots. She told the station: “I want a baby from an Italian — possibly Sicilian — donor.” Lady GaGa’s father, New York restaurant owner Joseph Germanotta, originally comes from the village of Naso in Sicily. When asked by Italian media if Lady GaGa was consulting him, Italy’s leading artificial insemination medic Severino Antinori said: “I don’t talk about my patients.” Taylor, who has a large angel tattoo sprawling across his back, met Gaga while both were filming her video You And I back in September where he played her love interest.

— Daily Mail

Keeping up with our Kardashian sisters

Kim Kardashian’s younger sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner are following in her footsteps by posing for a glossy magazine cover. The teen members of the reality TV family appear on the front of the March issue of Teen Vogue. With their long brown hair, Kendall, 16, and Kylie, 14, are doe-eyed little versions of their sisters Kim, Kourtney and Khloé Kardashian. The teens are Kris Jenner’s youngest children, whom she had with former Olympian Bruce Jenner.

On the cover, model Kendall appears in a sleeveless lime green dress. Meanwhile, her sister wears a hot pink tunic dress with short sleeves. Inside the girls talk to Teen Vogue about their lives as members of the most famous reality TV family in the US. Kendall seems to love coming from such a big family. In total they have eight siblings — four each from their parents’ previous marriages. The teen model says: “I love having so many people you can turn to. You always have someone there for you.” Kylie says that she enjoys shopping. She tells the chic magazine: “I feel like a shopaholic. When I come home with a new bag of stuff, oh my God, it feels so good!” Teen Vogue spoke to the girls’ older sisters who gave them glowing reports. Kim, 31, said: “They are so down-to-earth. It’s just who they are, and they will never change.” Khloé, 27, said, “Kendall and Kylie are like my babies.”

— Daily Mail