Kate Bosworth: Orlando Bloom Breakup Gave Me "Vertigo"
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Breaking up with Orlando Bloom was really, really hard to do for Kate Bosworth.
After about four on-and-off years together, the Straw Dogs actress, 28, and the Hobbit star, 34, called it quits in 2006.
Bosworth (who broke up with Alexander Skarsgard earlier this year) is now dating director Michael Polish, and Bloom is happily married to model Miranda Kerr, with whom he has one son, Flynn, 10 months.
But Bosworth suffered mightily -- even physically -- in the aftermath of that 2006 breakup. "Oh, I definitely know the feeling of pain, that's for sure," she told England's Sunday Times Style of the split.
"You know when you put all your chips into something, then it disappears?" she said of her relationship with the hunky English star. "[The break-up] sent me into such pain, I think I had actual vertigo. I was like, 'Is this my new reality? Will anything be normal again?'"
"Then one day," the Superman Returns beauty mused, "You wake up and you think, OK, I'll never be the same, but I'll survive and I'll grow from it."
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Indeed, all seemed well between the exes during an unexpected reunion in L.A.'s Brentwood neighborhood in early July of this year. With Bloom astride his Ducati motorcycle, the former loves even shared a hug. "They looked cordial," an observer told Us Weekly. "They were genuinely smiling to one another like friends, but didn't linger very long."
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16Orlando Bloom is not Australian. He was born in England.
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O poor kate! YOu'll be fine sweetheart!
The breakup caused vertigo? Gurrrl. Be real, your e.d. was the real reason behind the vertigo.
Bad Journalism right there Bloom an Australian come on. Also such a stupid story all this happened nearly 6 years ago, I don't know why this is relevant. I feel sorry for Alexander Skarsgard who she recently broke up with and he now has to read all this about Bloom, she should be saying this about him, much hotter.
Please girl get over it!!!!! Glad Alexander is not in the picture anymore he needs to find a woman not a girl who can truly love him for him and not the media so much.
The breakup caused vertigo? Hmmm..I get that Kate's trying to stress how much pain she was in but I guess Orlando decided he needed some brains along with the beauty.
why talk about orlando now? shld be talking bout the recent ex,i mean u broke up years ago and havent move on?
Yeah... Orlando is English.
It really speaks volumes that the writer of this article has no idea who they are writing about. Orlando isn't Australian; his wife is. Odds are she developed vertigo from lack of food. She never looks healthy; sickly and extremely thin.
I realize this woman still pays thousands of dollars to her publicist to get print placement in these gossip rags, but I DO wish she would stop getting mileage out of Orlando while she searches (eternally, it seems) to strengthen her career. Doesn't she have anything else in her life to talk about except a relationship that was likely a publicity ploy and is also years dead? Come on, Kate. What project are you currently working on?
his wife is Aussi and this girl looks skinny as hell in that pic...............look at her chest!!!!!!!!!!!
Sheehs, even I knew that orlando isnt from Australia.
eeeeeek she looks emaciated in that pic, with boobs in the middle of her stomach? she's young, what gives??? I hope after that she rebounded and put on a few poundsl
Um, Orlando Bloom is from England, not Australia.
That's hilarious, considering Orlando Bloom is BRITISH and not AUSTRALIAN! :)