my next guest first guest tonight has often been called one of the most beautiful women
in the world and with that in mind you can understand why she is also one of the most
successful models in the world it's a pleasure to welcome Isabella rossolini [Music] [Applause]
hi Isabella how are you nice to see you [Music] thank you very much for being here welcome to the
show thank you thank you did that embarrass you the way we introduced you as uh one of the most
beautiful women in the world you get embarrassed by that it's always a little bit embarrassing
because I'm not sure everybody thinks the same thing the same way well it seems to be pretty much
consensus everybody is there yeah I don't know uh now you have a kind of a thing on your tooth
there don't you you have a chipped tooth I do now yeah some people see how beautiful I am yeah but
that's how it starts but it doesn't it doesn't bother you that's chip a little bit is it well
it bothered me when my brother threw my telephone at me and broke my tooth that was why did why did
your brother throw the telephone at you because when he was young you didn't do it like now but
um we were we were many kids I grew up with my father was married
um besides my mother had otherwise another kid so we were seven altogether and we always
had friends and cousin and we were really a very large group of children and sometimes it
got very rough so do you remember the issue that you and your brother were fighting over
many things I forgot that one I think it was I forgot where it really was I mean we were we was
always separating and creating gangs and fighting each other that was our fun yeah well nasty kids
uh chipped tooth is a lot of fun isn't it have you ever has anybody ever said well if you're going
to continue in modeling you better get the thing leveled off or filed or whatever they do to them
um yes they do well they don't they haven't complained much you know they haven't only
recently people have been noticing my tooth I don't know maybe because they say I'm so
beautiful that I start looking for all the mistakes did you have a you mentioned there
were a lot of people in your family when you were a kid did you have a a a strange
childhood and I don't I don't mean that to be offensive but was it odd and peculiar and
I thought it was no normal naturally when I grew up and now that I am a grown-up myself and I have
a child and all that I do think that it was very unusual and it was very funny I don't know if it
was my parents um capacity of letting us play as much as we wanted it or the fact that we were so
many and that it couldn't handle us all but it was very wild we had all sorts of animals any
desire was fulfilled and I feel they also felt a little bit guilty that they were divorcing so
everything we said came through to us so we were in a good end of the divorce I worked at animals
and we had all sorts of animals cats and dogs and father once came up at your hotel we were leaving
during their divorce with a kangaroo we had a lion monkey what did you what would you do with
a kangaroo oh he was nasty we can we couldn't keep him too long we kept him two days and he kicked a
lot it was a baby kangaroo but he was nasty so we you know we catched him and we put it back on a
box where he came and my father had to travel all the way from Paris is back to Rome where you know
somebody wanted it for the zoo Paris Zoo didn't want the kangaroo well the kangaroo eventually
didn't get a good home yes well I don't know the zoo I don't know if you liked it so much maybe
you would have liked it to be with us but he was too nasty the kangaroo was nasty though we we have
to uh go away for a commercial Isabella we'll be back here uh we'll return folks so come on back
we're back Isabella rossolini we mentioned your uh your family and stuff we didn't mention your
parents you had uh Christmas people Roberto rossolini and uh Ingrid Bergman were your mom
and dad uh what was that like did you know that these were uh big big important people
um no I didn't know I mean I really it was very confusing that is I think it's something that I'm
still sort of learning and finding out but we knew so little about it that my my older brother had a
child and a child was three years old um he knew my mother's as a grandma naturally and uh but you
heard his name Ingrid Broome and it was sort of a myth you know the Press was talking about and
he never realized that that was his grandmother and he had a teddy bear and he called the Teddy
Bear Ingrid Bergman and he pretended he was his son he didn't even know that Ingrid Bergman was
a woman he pretended that Ingrid Bergman the bear was his son was his son right we didn't
know it yeah you get into modeling in kind of an unusual fashion and late in life I believe
for for what is considered the norm for models how did it happen it happened I have a friend Francis
Grill and she just opened about two years ago and a model agency called Clique and she only had boys
and she wanted to start it you know with the girls and she asked me some of the photo they knew her
they wanted to take pictures of me at that time I was working as a journalist and we did it but you
know then my third job my third appointment was one of the cover of Vogue and then you know it
started a big career in no kidding so just they just asked you if they could photograph you for
the heck of it or they they want to do uh yes well you never considered it before no I thought it was
stupid I wanted to be intelligent I thought that job I'm not going to do this he thought modeling
was being stupid that's right uh and and is it do you think now that you're doing it no I don't know
no I don't think so no I really don't think so I think I was stupid by thinking that a job makes
you stupid you know uh do you have plans to go from modeling into acting yes I'm asked and I
I'm always so about acting I don't know I feel I have both feeling I've been very appealed to it
and also feel scared because I like to play and I like games and I like to do things for fun and
I always feel that I'm successful when I approach things like that but acting because of my mother
and because of my father always looked upon me like oh this is going to be serious yeah well
there would be extra pressure on you I'm sure because of those two feet but no it's fun it's
a nice job are you close to being in a film have you done some film work I've done some film work
in Italy but you know with friends and so it was very different and then you know starting a big
career and trying to make it with big people dude do people confuse you at all with the Nastasia
Kinski in in uh in Prince photos they do they do yes they're doing print photograph the cover of
Vogue sometimes I think it's Nastasia and it's me or sometimes it's Nastasia and but I always
say it's me so it feels like I have more and more sure you might as well take credit for her career
it's beautiful I say yeah if you're just starting out what the heck uh wherever you can uh well
good luck if you if you want to go into films I would look forward to that good luck to you
thank you and thank you very much for being here thank you very much you'll be right back with uh