Charlize Theron's Hair and Makeup Secrets  The silver-screen
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Getty Images (Theron); Steven Krause (products)  It takes
confidence for any woman—even an ex-model equipped with
indisputable leading-lady looks—to gain 30 pounds and modify
herself with prosthetics to appear on 50-foot-high movie screens
worldwide. But that's just what actress Charlize Theron did to
play Aileen Wuornos in 2003's Oscar-winning Monster. "There's no
way I could have understood that character without having an
emotional connection to her appearance," Theron says. In her
current project, Diablo Cody's Young Adult, which hit theaters
December 16, she plays a fiction writer with a penchant for
alcohol and ex-boyfriends, and a nervous hair-pulling habit that
leaves her with bald spots. Not exactly a glamorous role either,
but Theron, 36, isn't concerned with looking pretty. "My job is
to be a blank canvas and embody the character that I'm playing."
Of course it helps that, off