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To the rest of the world Michelle Pfeiffer is a superstar and a sex symbol. Her latest film What Lies Beneath has been a box office sensation in the States.

But as far as her kids are concerned she's just their mum.

Pfeiffer, in fact, didn't even tell her kids what she did for a living.

"It's true," she insists with a laugh. "Claudia Rose is seven and John Henry is just six. But last year at school the kids were saying things to Claudia Rose about me being Catwoman and I realised that I had done them both a big disservice. All of their friends knew more about me than they did."

So, in much the same way that nervous fathers tell embarrassed sons about the facts of life, Michelle had to ...

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