More From Roseanne: Was A Part-time Prostitute

January 05, 1994|By W. Speers, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER This story contains material from the Associated Press, the New York Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Times and USA Today

Roseanne Arnold, in a let-it-all-hang-out interview in February's Vanity Fair, discloses that she turned tricks in the back of cars to support her family in the early days of her comedy career. "I felt powerful and in control," says the TV star.

"I think prostitution should be legal because the way any society treats its prostitutes reflects directly on how it treats the highest, most powerful women. . . . It has always been here, and women should be able to control it and regulate it. . . . Prostitution is business."

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The comic actress also notes that she has had sex with women. "The way I think about it is that anybody can have sex with anything. You're the one that's sexual. The person you're having it with doesn't do anything to make you one way or the other."

Arnold, showing off a smaller body than one might associate with her, appears on the cover and inside the mag in sexual poses dressed in corsets, teddies, see-through slips and other lacy underthings. She calls her nose job, face lift, tummy tuck and breast reduction a "signal" to herself that "my self-abuse . . . (is) over . . . Now that I've had this done, I'm going to take good care of myself."

COUPLES

* Prince Rainier has no plans to marry David Niven's widow, Swedish-born Hjordis Niven, a royal family spokeswoman declared yesterday in Monaco. "One wonders how such a completely baseless rumor managed to spread," she said. Niven and her actor husband were once buds with Rainier and Princess Grace.

The entire deal-artist fam, Donald, Marla and Tiffany Trump, have posed for the cover of the March issue of Vanity Fair.

President Clinton, waxing on about the charms of Bermuda while guiding a bunch of Bermudan bizmen on a White House tour recently, revealed that on one of his visits there with Hillary, daughter Chelsea was conceived.

Geena Davis, who married Finnish filmmaker Renny Harlin in September, reveals in February's Premiere mag that she got a tattoo - "a sweet little thing with a cherub on it" - etched on her right ankle just for him. Notes the actress: "That was my little wedding present to Renny." And nontransferable!

Still together: Madonna and Ingrid Casares, sighted last week at the Starfish nightspot in Miami's South Beach. And, JFK Jr. and Daryl Hannah making nice over grub at Manhattan's Odeon last week. At the table with them - Michelle Pfeiffer ditchee, Fisher Stevens, and Madonna's exiled-pal, Sandra Bernhard.

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