When it comes to modern-day Hollywood megastars, few people can compare to award-winning actress Scarlett Johansson.
She famously combines a Marilyn Monroe-esque Hollywood glamour with a whip-smart, down-to-earth New York cool-girl vibe.
Plus, her personal life hasn’t exactly been smooth sailing.
Here is the stunning transformation ofScarlett Johansson.
Johansson spoke toInterviewabout her experience of growing up in Greenwich Village in Manhattan.
She first went to a public school and thenone for the performing arts.
But back then, Johansson said public school was much more diverse.
“A lot of the artists in the neighborhood had kids who went there,” she explained.
“We were living on welfare, we were on food stamps,” she revealed.
She added that her mother tried to shield her kids from the difficult experience.
Nevertheless, “it was a lot,” she said.
“I was, like, devastated.
I decided at that very moment that my whole life was going down the tubes,” she recalled.
It’s clear that the young Johansson was doggedly determined and wholly passionate.
Soon, Johansson’s mother found her an agent and she began to audition for commercials.
“It was like being in abeauty pageant,” she said.
“The other moms were really scary, and it was awful, a really sordid scene.”
She added that she and her mother had dramatic fights because of the tension.
Johansson’s acting training started pretty early on in her life, when she was just 7 years old.
“I learned early on how to manipulate my emotions,” she revealed.
“I remember it vividly,” she said.
She also began to “understand the nuances of what went into giving a performance.”
Johansson’s performance in “North” got the industry’s attention.
In 2014, Johansson explained toGlamourthat her twin, Hunter Johansson, was hugely helpful at the time.
The divorce had a serious impact on Johansson as well.
She started to build a reputation for her maturity from an incredibly early age.
AsEllepointed out, her famous “old soul” has been written about extensively.
She has a coolness and a subtlety that you would not expect.
You feel like she’s seen a lot."
For Johansson, this reputation won her a series of complex, mature roles that defined her early career.
The film quickly became a cult classic (via theIndependent).
At the time, Johansson was just 15 years old.
For Johansson, the role gave her a chance to take on a challenge.
“Most of the teenage parts don’t have any depth,” she said to theSunday Herald.
“A lot of people who write about teenagers were unaware when they were young.”
She spoke toVogueabout the life-changing effect the film had on her.
She confessed that the media attention after this film was “hard to navigate.”
Johansson also spoke on “The Howard Stern Show” about the experience.
“It was a hard shoot for me,” she confessed.
In fact, way back in high school, the actress briefly dated musician Jack Antonoff.
According toPage Six, the pair even went to prom together.
They broke up shortly after graduation … She got swept up in the Hollywood scene."
A few years later,Johansson began dating actor Josh Hartnett.
Johansson opened up about their relationship during a 2006 interview with Allure.
“Josh is very sweet,” she said.
“He’s a good boy.
I’m very lucky and I’m very happy” (via People).
Their relationship came to an end in 2007.
As Hartnettsuggestedto InTouch, it came down to jealousy.
“It’s hard to be like, ‘Oh, that’s just work,'” he said.
In fact, when she was still a teenager, she was often cast in roles that were over-sexualized.
“I think everybody thought I was older,” she said on the “Armchair Expert” podcast.
And I was like, ‘This is it?'"
So, she took steps to change the direction of her career.
“I have always loved to sing.
“So [making an album] seemed like a really exciting adventure.”
That sort of pressure of having to deliver I just find it thrilling.”
Additionally, as things clicked into place on set, the shoot became an unforgettable experience for Johansson.
The film was also an odd experience for Johansson, who ended up improvising most of her lines.
Sadly, the relationship didn’t last, and the couple split in 2010.
As Johansson explained to the German magazine Gala, the divorce was initially depressing.
This tendency sometimes led her to say hurtful things (viaIrishCentral).
Later, in 2014, Johansson explained toGlamourthat she learned a lot from the relationship.
“I think I know myself better,” she revealed.
She added that her time with Reynolds had given her “more tools to communicate.”
Back in 2008, Johansson discussed the difficulty of aging as an actress (viaThe Atlantic).
She has a point after all, her male costars don’t get these names!
Later that year, she gave birth to her daughter, Rose Dauriac.
However, her relationship didn’t last, as she and Dauriac split up in 2016 (viaPeople).
Unsurprisingly, motherhood was completely life-changing for Johansson.
Still, all difficulties aside, having her daughter has brought Johansson a great deal of joy.
“When I look at her, I feel full of hope and positivity,” she added.
After Johansson was cast, there was an instant backlash and accusations of “whitewashing.”
However, Johansson didn’t believe that playing this role was inappropriate.
Johansson did go on to play the character, but the controversy marked a key moment in Hollywood history.
“Whitewashing was totally fine until that point.
In 2019, Johansson called the experience “life-changing” at the “Avengers: Endgame” premiere.
By the looks of things, the couple couldn’t be happier.
When Johansson hostedSNLin December 2019, she gushed, “This place means so much to me.
I have so many friends here and I met the love of my life here.”
And it seems that Jost is equally head over heels.
The actress claimed that changing the release of the film went against her contract.
The actress and the studio eventually reached an agreement.
As Johansson said at the time, “I am happy to have resolved our differences with Disney.
I look forward to continuing our collaboration in years to come” (viaVariety).
Johansson already had a daughter from her relationship with Romain Dauriac (viaPeople).
“Ok Ok we had a baby.
His name is Cosmo.
We love him very much,” Jost wroteon Instagram.
“We just threw a bunch of letters together,” she said.
“We were like, ‘Yeah that works.’
I just thought it was so charming and our friends all liked it.”
However, Johansson explained, Jost’s mother didn’t initially like the name they had chosen.
“She kept suggesting other versions of it,” she said.
Unfortunately for her, it was a little too late to be coming up with new baby names.
Luckily, Johansson’s daughter, Rose, did like the name.
They also contain no gluten and no nuts.
“With all of the products in the line, your skin feels healthy and hydrated and bouncy.
But it’s not that glassy,” she said.
“As you get older, you don’t really want to look shiny.
I don’t want to look like I just had a laser treatment.”
