As we’ve already seen in bits and pieces, Elisabetta Canalis is the September cover girl for Vanity Fair Italy. People Magazine excerpted several of her quotes a few days ago, but I just saw the full piece online, complete with this photo shoot. First, a word about Canalis as a model: she’s not horrible, but she looks so completely different in every photo. She doesn’t have a consistent face, if that’s not too odd a description. In one shot, she looks like Cindy Crawford, in another, I sweat to God she looks like Camilla Belle. It’s so weird. Anyway, the full piece is here – but you’ll have to access it in Chrome to get a translation. Funny side note: Chrome translated everything into “him”. As in, Canalis is a dude. Also: she’s already banking on being with George until the end of this month, because she confirms she’s his Emmy date.

What’s it like for Eli:
“I thought the job for me would always come first. I was wrong. My love life has taken precedence. ”

Her participation in the third season of the TV series American leverage has not been critically acclaimed.
“I do not think I’ve ever studied so much, never had the same healthy nervousness, the same concentration as at work for this new project.”

They did not hurt the criticism of her work?
“It seems a cliché, but unfortunately true: Italians do not ever cheer for their countrymen who earn abroad opportunity, recognition. I do not expect to be celebrated, but even the newspapers of our country should take as a point of critical reference to a gossip blog full of insults, racism, violence. ”

This annoys the idea of being now seen as part of a couple? We call it ‘the Cloonalis.
“But it’s just Italian. Look I’m not doing the fake modest: I do not know anybody in America. ”

In Los Angeles, out of her house, there are the paparazzi?
“Sometimes they follow me to the supermarket, but after a little ‘get tired. I am less obsessive in their Italian colleagues. I can go out to dinner with my man without being particularly persecuted. ”

There will be at the Venice Film Festival?
“No. But we will be Aug. 29 in Los Angeles Emmy, awards Tv He will be rewarded, not as an actor, but for his humanitarian efforts. For what he did for earthquake victims in Haiti. ”

What do you like most in Clooney?
“Just this. His humanity. The ability to give to others. ”

Your story at the beginning, has raised many doubts, and even many “is not true.” Gave you trouble?
“I felt offended is absurd, no sense to give it weight. I certainly did effect the other day, ask the cashier feel of Conad Alghero: “It’s true that you’re engaged to him?”. Yes, it’s true: we are together. I heard about women, including big names, which is why they removed his picture from your computer desktop. Maybe I am a bit ‘too stressed. But in the end, the best revenge against the envious is your happiness. Why is it that you do not forgive. ”

What reassures Clooney?
“A lot: me always.”

Feel pampered?
“As I had never been.”

It never feels insecure in the new environment that attends?
“Often They are insecure by nature. But if you loved, you feel more beautiful. It is the idea of being so loved that surprises me. ”

Define George Clooney.
“The person through whom my life has taken color. I feel good, light. Like when I was 18 years. “

[From Vanity Fair Italy]

Smug bitch, right? I mean, maybe it’s all for real and I’m just horrible and pessimistic and hateful. Or maybe Eli thinks she’s the shizz and her attitude is going to get in the way of Clooney being center-stage of the relationship, always. Whatever.

All photos courtesy of VF Italy.