WHY SIENNA WON'T WRAP HERSELF IN COTTON WOOL

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Friday August 29,2008

STARLET Sienna Miller refuses to surround herself with the usual celebrity circus of bodyguards and flunkies despite admitting to being unhappy about the constant attention she receives.

Her high-profile love life has generated much media interest and she is often chased by paparazzi but the 26-year-old Factory Girl and Alfie actress is determined to lead as normal a life as possible.

Sienna, who has attracted criticism for her current relationship with married (albeit now separated) oil heir Balthazar Getty, a father of four, insists defiantly: “When I’m not working, I want to be myself.

“I don’t have assistants, bodyguards or even a driver because I try to pretend in my own head that this isn’t happening.

“I think a lot of actresses live in this cotton-wool world but I’m very free-spirited and I want to be able to live the life I do.”

She does not seek the limelight, she insists. “I’ve never missed a day’s work in my life and I take my job very seriously.

“I was well known before I had a film out [referring to being Jude Law’s girlfriend] but I don’t court attention. I don’t go to other people’s premieres. I haven’t been out to a club in London for years.”

Not that all the attention is unwelcome. “I would not say I look forward to interviews but I like to chat,” she says.

“I get nervous because I have a very large mouth so sometimes I put my foot in it. I get excited and I need to calm down.”

And Sienna has a tongue-in-cheek warning for her acting contemporary and Edge Of Love co-star Keira Knightley that she is out to spoil the latter’s butter-wouldn’t-melt reputation.

She tells Sky Movies Magazine: “I have a lot of respect for Keira, she’s another girl who’s in a similar position to me but she still has her reputation intact. Naturally I intend to sully it before the year’s out. Only joking...”

Hope so, Sienna.