I am very shy: Zeta-Jones

Actor Catherine Zeta-Jones insists she is conscious of her looks and often insecure, but she still has the passion to start the second phase of her career.

Actor Catherine Zeta-Jones insists she is conscious of her looks and often insecure, but she still has the passion to start the second phase of her career.

The Hollywood beauty, who made her Broadway stage debut last week with A Little Night Music, believes that people misunderstand her as diehard ambitious. “The biggest misconception of me is that I’m some diehard, ambitious, do-anything-to-get-anything kind of person. I'm not. I’m very shy socially,” ,” The Daily Express quoted her as saying.

The The Mask of Zorro and Traffic actress added: “There is a much shyer quality to me that people don’t usually see. I get perceived sometimes as: ‘ta da! here comes the showgirl!’ In fact, I’ve many insecurities. I’m a lot more reserved and quiet than I let on to be.”

The Welsh beauty also feels she is not “aesthetically beautiful”. “I know I’m not Quasimodo but as far as I’m concerned, I think I’m not aesthetically beautiful. I have a broken nose here. I had a tracheotomy when I was a kid. I’d broken capillaries. I always ask my husband, ‘Do I look fat in this dress? Can you see that spot on my face?’,” she said.

But she says she is comfortable shedding her glamorous image and playing the role of a mother in her Broadway show. “It’s just a natural progression...I’m going to play more mums than sex symbols [now].”