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Rose McGowan on the photo shoot that made her 'tired of being sexualized'

"I was on the cover of Rolling Stone, with a fake tan and gun belt around me and breasts, they gave me some big bouffant hair and glossy lips, and I just was like, I’ve had it, I have just had it," the actress shared.

By Veronica Linares
Rose McGowan on October 21, 2014. UPI/Phil McCarten
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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Actress Rose McGowan revealed in an interview with Flatt magazine, she grew "tired of being sexualized" after a photo shoot for Rolling Stone in 2007.

The 41-year-old star, best known for her role as Paige Matthews in The WB's Charmed, was discussing her reasons for jumping from acting to film making when she made the comments.

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"I worked with some seriously misogynistic directors," she said, before adding she eventually "got really tired of being sexualized."

"There was a moment, I was on the cover of Rolling Stone, with a fake tan and gun belt around me and breasts, they gave me some big bouffant hair and glossy lips, and I just was like, I've had it, I have just had it."

After determining she was "sick of being sexualized," McGowan claims to have "checked out" for a while, a time she spent having fun, and figuring out what went wrong.

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"It was not that I wasn't meant to be an actress, it was just that I was meant to be in film, and I just was literally cast in the wrong role in life," she asserted.

"I'm an artist, but I never felt like I was an artist as an actor," she added later. "Not because of how I was treated, because that's not how artists are treated, or should be treated, or people should be treated."

McGowan's directorial debut on the short film Dawn premiered Friday at Flatt's Tribeca Grand Hotel bash. The actress hopes to earn an Academy Award for the movie.

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