(ANSA) - Rome, March 23 - Italian actress Monica Bellucci is
appearing pregnant on the cover of an Italian magazine for the
second time in six years to protest the strict assisted
fertility laws in heavily Catholic Italy.
Once again, Bellucci has chosen the Italian edition of
Vanity Fair Magazine to advertise her opposition to a 2004 law
that bans the use of donor sperm.
"We're still back at the drawing board, in 2010," she said
in an excerpt of an interview that will appear in Friday's
edition.
"(Italian) women are going to clinics abroad, but only if
they can afford it.
It's an injustice.
It's a political problem, or rather a problem of the exploitation of religion by politics". "Above all, in the end, it's a problem of lack of information.
Not enough people voted in the referendum". A 2005 referendum to revoke the Catholic Church-backed law failed because the quorum was not reached.
Bellucci posed nude on the first Vanity Fair cover a few months before her first daughter, Deva, by 43-year-old French actor husband Vincent Cassel, was born in September 2004. This time round she's more heavily pregnant and wearing lingerie plus a black nightgown. She recalled that Deva's birth had been "natural like the countrywomen in Umbria where I come from" and the second pregnancy "has been plain sailing so far". The actress, known for her parts in the Passion of the Christ and The Matrix sequels, said she'd had to "try a little" to get pregnant second time round "because it isn't something you just set up with a producer and director", but would have gone for help if she'd been told she was too old to conceive. "All you have to do is call fertility clinics, or even surrogate mothers if you have to". Asked about having a child at at an age that used to be considered "late in life," she replied: "I'll be in my sixties when my daughter's 20, but so what? Today's 60-year-old women are splendid.
The world has changed and if you're careful you can have a kid at 40 and see it mature with you". Bellucci's marriage, which dates to 1999, is seen as one of the most solid in the film world. She has appeared in several films with the charismatic Cassel, who is one of France's biggest stars and has had hard-hitting villain roles in English-language films ranging from Ocean's Twelve to David Cronenberg's Russian gangster pic Eastern Promises. Bellucci, whose other credits include Malena and The Brothers Grimm, was previously married to Italian fashion photographer Claudio Carlos Basso but the brief marriage, dating to 1990, produced no children. After giving birth to Deva she described the experience as ''carnal and divine''. Deva means 'divine' in Sanskrit.
It's an injustice.
It's a political problem, or rather a problem of the exploitation of religion by politics". "Above all, in the end, it's a problem of lack of information.
Not enough people voted in the referendum". A 2005 referendum to revoke the Catholic Church-backed law failed because the quorum was not reached.
Bellucci posed nude on the first Vanity Fair cover a few months before her first daughter, Deva, by 43-year-old French actor husband Vincent Cassel, was born in September 2004. This time round she's more heavily pregnant and wearing lingerie plus a black nightgown. She recalled that Deva's birth had been "natural like the countrywomen in Umbria where I come from" and the second pregnancy "has been plain sailing so far". The actress, known for her parts in the Passion of the Christ and The Matrix sequels, said she'd had to "try a little" to get pregnant second time round "because it isn't something you just set up with a producer and director", but would have gone for help if she'd been told she was too old to conceive. "All you have to do is call fertility clinics, or even surrogate mothers if you have to". Asked about having a child at at an age that used to be considered "late in life," she replied: "I'll be in my sixties when my daughter's 20, but so what? Today's 60-year-old women are splendid.
The world has changed and if you're careful you can have a kid at 40 and see it mature with you". Bellucci's marriage, which dates to 1999, is seen as one of the most solid in the film world. She has appeared in several films with the charismatic Cassel, who is one of France's biggest stars and has had hard-hitting villain roles in English-language films ranging from Ocean's Twelve to David Cronenberg's Russian gangster pic Eastern Promises. Bellucci, whose other credits include Malena and The Brothers Grimm, was previously married to Italian fashion photographer Claudio Carlos Basso but the brief marriage, dating to 1990, produced no children. After giving birth to Deva she described the experience as ''carnal and divine''. Deva means 'divine' in Sanskrit.
