Mandy Moore graced the cover of Women's Health Magazine for their July/August issue. She looks amazing for her photo shoot and as usual, gave a great, candid interview! I particularly like the quote she gave about her marriage to Ryan Adams. She seems like she went into things with her eyes open. Hopefully this will be a relationship that goes against the Hollywood divorce trend!

On misconceptions of Mandy:

“I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do. But I do find it bizarre that people find it bizarre that I’ve grown up.”

On the “Big” wedding:

“It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.”

On marriage:

“I didn’t know if marriage was something that was super important to me.  I thought, maybe I don’t need that in my life. I didn’t take the decision (to get married) lightly. I ventured into it realistically. But life takes you places you wouldn’t have expected. I’m really content with what was in the cards for me.”

On her married life:

“We’re quiet people who live a normal, boring life.”

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On therapy (which she first tried over a year ago):

“You go in thinking, ‘Wow, I have nothing to talk about. Where is this hour gonna go? And before you know it, time’s up.  I don’t have to burden my friends with the same things over and over again, and it’s fascinating to get an unbiased point of view, to not feel like anybody would judge you.  It’s very freeing.”

Mandy’s unexpected tattoo on the arch of her foot:

“It’s a baby sperm.”

On her tattoo parlor visit with her band members:

“We were goofing off, writing a song about babies or something,” she says. “Somehow that evolved into everybody getting inked.

On an unexpected paparazzi run-in:

“It was like 9 in morning, I’m having my period, I have a huge pimple on my face, and all of a sudden some guy pops out from behind a porta-potty.”

*Occurred the morning of the interview while her and her hubby were hiking

On falling head-over-heels for Ryan:

Mandy calls Ryan, “my best friend, someone I have so much respect for.”

On the making of Amanda Leigh:

“I’d never sung sitting down before but there was something so intimate about the way we were doing the record.  It was just the three of us, and we made the most of what we had.  Typically, in a studio, every day you’re conscious of how much money it’s costing but there was no pressure.  It was like, let’s go for this song today, and we’d come back to it later.”

I so wish that Mandy would do more movies or have a higher profile music career or something. She is one of those celebs that I really enjoy and always wish we'd hear more about!

Photos by Thomas Whiteside/Women’s Health.