Article: The Rapid Rise of Renee Zellweger: The formerly frumpy actress embraces her inner starlet and dishes about Hollywood, haute couture and being moony over Clooney. (WProfile).

Renee Zellweger pulls off one of her truly amazing shoes, a lipstick-red five-inch Valentino stiletto, which sculpts and squeezes her small foot like a Mainbocher corset--and offers a chilling glimpse of the dark side of celebrity.

"Isn't it gross?" she squeals, in the broad Texas accent that's rarely heard on-screen, taking great delight--and disgust--in the broken baby toe she's been in semidenial about for six weeks. It looks pretty painful, and the fact that she's housed it in this particular kind of shoe says a lot about the new, post--Bridget Jones, A-list-arrived Renee Zellweger.

"It is my least consequential toe--but the most vocal these days," ...

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