Another day, another poorly styled magazine cover. This is Uma Thurman on October’s W Magazine, to promote her independent film, Motherhood. Here’s a question – how friggin’ difficult is it to make Uma Thurman look like crap? She’s this gorgeous, unique, striking bombshell, and they’ve made her look all pale and ghoulish. The dress is whacked too. It would be righteous without the shoulder cutouts.

Uma is promoting Motherhood, a film about a “New York mother of two and blogger as she prepares for her daughter’s birthday party, enters a writing contest, navigates playground politics and clashes with her best friend (played by Minnie Driver).” In the full interview, Uma talks about her fiancée Arpad Busson and her fast-approaching 40th birthday. Huffington Post has excerpts:

On possible wedding plans with fiance Busson, and if she’ll move to London or stay in NY: “I’m happily engaged, but we haven’t set a wedding up. I’m not in a rush to do anything. One day we’ll do it, when we’re ready… We can’t live anywhere else because my childrens’ father lives here. We’ll figure that out.”

On approaching 40: “I can’t say my 30s were the easiest time. And I had thought my 20s were hard! … You know, that’s the worst mistake a woman can make, to think, Oh, I’m 32 and I’ve had two kids and I’ve worked since I was 16 and now it’s going to get easier. Because as soon as you think that, you’re doomed! You’re absolutely doomed!

On regrets: “I feel like I lived my life backwards. Like Bob Dylan said, ‘I was so much older then; I’m younger than that now.’ Getting older has been a process of realizing that I wasn’t as grown up as I had thought. When I was a teenager people often referred to me as jaded or knowing. It’s a classic teen illusion to think you know it all, but I’ve certainly learned I don’t. I’ve certainly learned the hard way.

On how her career isn’t where it could be, because she stays in NY: “When my son turned seven, I felt myself stand upright and realize that I wasn’t going to be bending over so much. I realized I had been kind of in this position for years! It’s nice to think that everybody’s getting more independent and now I can kind of maybe, slightly selfishly, think about work again…You know, I do care about my work, and it is part of me. And I am a mother, but I need to do what I’m good at doing. You really can’t let go of all of yourself…. Even your kids need you to be who you are… I’ve been living at home for work for a long time. If I don’t leave soon, I’m going to literally choke my career to death.”

[From W via Huffington Post]

I love some Uma, and it pains me to think of her career post-Kill Bill. It’s kind of sucked. She’s a really talented actress, and I wish she would work more and pick better projects. But obviously, she’s had other priorities, like being a mom, so she probably just takes what fits in her mom-schedule. Uma needs a comeback. She needs to work with Quentin Tarantino again. That’s the ticket!

You can read the whole interview with Uma on W Magazine’s website.

Photos via CoverAwards and from W Magazine.