Saturday, 14 October 2006

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Penélope Cruz: My bum wasn't big enough

Star wore prosthetic butt for latest film

Curvy Penélope Cruz received a rare request from the director of her latest film - to increase the size of her derrière.

Pedro Almodóvar asked the star of Volver to wear a prosthetic bottom for her movie role, as he felt she wasn't curvy enough to play a mother.

'Penélope naturally has the breasts, but the bottom was not enough,' Pedro tells People magazine. 'To me the iconography of mothers is more curvaceous. I wanted a more voluminous rear.'

The solution? A prosthetic device inspired by the one wore by Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie.

'We were laughing so hard because people really thought it was Dustin's butt - that it was the same piece of material,' says Penélope, 32. 'They asked him: "How do you feel about her wearing your butt?'"