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Emma Watson, known for her role as Hermione in the Harry Potter flicks, is on the cover of the British version of Elle this month. Ms. Watson has clearly grown up over the years the Potter kids have been in the limelight. Once hilariously spoofed by fellow child star Lindsay Lohan on Saturday Night Live for the adolescent sex appeal of Hermione to teen and tween boys, Ms. Watson seems comfortable in her own skin.

She will be attending Columbia University in the Fall. Watson told Elle how one of her role models, Natalie Portman had done the same by stepping back from the limelight to attend Harvard. Ms. Watson is secure in her image and self, but like the feminist icon Madonna, Ms. Watson wants to maintain control of them, rather than have them dictated to her. In her own words, "I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career and they just become more and more like everyone else. They start out with something individual about them but it gets lost. Natalie Portman is an exception. I'm in awe of how she's handled herself."

Watson who looks stunning in Elle UK's August issue appears to be headed down the right path.

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