Herve Ledger bathing suit? Love it!

Mrs. Jay Z is rockin’ the cover of L.A. Confidential Magazine for March 2009.  These are some of the hottest pictures I have seen of her to date.  Does it have something to do with the Herve Ledger bathing suit? Maybe.  But without those curves the suit would be sunk.

In the interview Beyonce talks about the intensity behind playing the role of Etta James.

LAC: Your previous role, Etta James, was a heroin addict and an emotionally troubled woman. Your public image, at least, is quite the opposite— clean-scrubbed and relentlessly cheerful. Did portraying her take you outside of your comfort zone?
BK: Etta James had a darker side. And with the profanity I use in the movie, me [portraying someone] addicted to heroin, having a scene where I’m strung out—I’m sure audiences were extremely shocked. But I’m an artist and I’m playing a character. When I’m doing a movie, Beyoncé is nowhere in the film. One thing playing Etta James taught me is that I can’t be afraid or ashamed of the things that I like, even if it doesn’t make sense to other people, or even if it’s shocking to people. It comes to a point where I know it’s time to take a chance. I don’t have a need to do another record to make more money or become a bigger superstar. Doing the Etta James movie was a scary thing for me. I read the script and said, This is great, but what are people going to think? I even talked to people at the label and they said, “I’m not sure if you want to have a needle in your arm the week after the album comes out.…”

Why she is so secretive about her hubby Jay Z.

LAC: Why have you been so secretive about your relationship with Jay-Z?
BK: This is my first relationship. I’m very private and, of course, I don’t talk about it, but I’m very, very happy, that’s all I’ll say. We were together for a really long time before we got married; we were in no rush. We don’t have a normal relationship because of our careers. But celebrity or not, you go through the exact same things. We’re not perfect, it’s just natural for people to start rumors and try to break things up. You can try to defend it, but it’s difficult when you read things and people are always asking. You have to have a very strong relationship, way stronger than people who aren’t being scrutinized.

For the full article pick up the latest edition of L.A. Confidential Magazine.