Charlize Theron
Wins Best Actress Oscar
South African
Beauty Wins Ultimate Prize
SF&R Report: 2nd
March, 2004
Gorgeous South
African actress Charlize Theron won the 2004 Best Actress Oscar
for her performance in the movie, Monster, and in an emotional
speech thanked her mother Gerda for her support in making her
American dream come true.
Gerda Theron raised
her superstar daughter strictly, demanding the highest standards
of behaviour and good manners, and would soundly spank the young
Charlize`s bottom if those standards weren`t met.
Charlize - known by
regular SF&R visitors as the actress with the much spanked
bottom - has often spoke in glowing appreciation at the way her
mother raised her, and the discipline she was given.
She even recalls a
particularly memorable and very sound thrashing she was given by
her mother with a wire hanger on her backside for a misdemeanour,
and added: "I can't tell you how grateful I am."