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Scarlett: 'I'm Not Pregnant'

Actress not pregnant, not dishing on wedding

By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff

Posted Jan 8, 2009 11:59 AM CST

(Newser) – Scarlett Johansson wants to run a brothel—in the movies, that is. “It's only so long that people are going to want to see me in a corset. So I might as well do it now,” she tells Harper’s Bazaar. The famously tight-lipped actress also addresses rumors—“ I'm not pregnant and I'm not going to be anytime soon”—but remains quiet on the subject of her uber-private wedding.

One thing she will gush about? Purported e-mail pal Barack Obama. Says Johansson, who was “mortified” when her enthusiasm for the then-candidate ballooned into rumors the two were an item: “If I'm invited to the inaugural party, I'll be there in a giant gown with the Obama family silk-screened on it.”

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Scarlett Johansson, a cast member in "The Spirit," poses on the red carpet at the premiere of the film in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Scarlett Johansson co-hosts the Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008. (AP Photo/Odd Andersen)

Scarlett Johansson watches Sir Michael Caine speak, during a press conference in Oslo, Thursday Dec. 11, 2008, ahead of the annual Nobel Peace Prize concert. (AP Photo/Odd Andersen)

Scarlett Johansson arrives for a gala dinner in honor of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Martti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland, at the Grand Hotel in Oslo, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008. (AP Photo/John McConnico)

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I can't keep up this face forever, you know. - Scarlett Johansson, on why she will turn toward directing and development

I was just talking to my publicist and he said, 'You're either pregnant or divorced today.' - Scarlett Johansson, on the stream of tabloid rumors about her

I'm so not a sporty spice; I'm a stay-at-home-and-veg spice. - Scarlett Johansson, on watching hubby Ryan Reynolds complete the New York Marathon.

I've never been the girl who thought of the big dress, the big ceremony. I'm more low-key than that. Most people want photographers at their wedding, and for us it was how do we leave them out? - Scarlett Johansson

I've also been pregnant several times. With, like, sextuplets. That must mean I've been eating way too many bagels or something. - Scarlett Johansson, on tabloid rumors

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