Whoopi Goldberg Opens Up About Sex Symbol Status as a Young Actress

Whoopi Goldberg keeps it fierce in her new shoot for Garage Magazine‘s Issue 16.

For the feature, novelist Ottessa Moshfegh – one of the 63-year-old The View host’s biggest fans – visited Whoopi in December of last year at her home in New Jersey.

Here’s what Whoopi had to share with the mag:

On moving from New York City’s SoHo, Manhattan, to her current residence: “I’d go out to do my shopping in SoHo, and just run back home. I’m anti-social, but I don’t want to be an asshole, so I talk to people when they come up to me. I like it out here, though.”

On her personal style: “You know, I love high heels, but I always wore them with socks. And fashion is finally catching up to me. When you go to the shows, now you see girls on the runway wearing socks with heels.”

On whether she had to dodge the pressures of being a sex symbol during her work as a young film actress: “Thank you, I did [have a hot bod]. I know.” About her 1987 hit Fatal Beauty, she said, “Nobody who worked on that movie saw me as sexy. They didn’t even think of me as a woman. Because I’m black.”

For more from Whoopi, head to Garage.vice.com.

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