What I was doing was trying to be a glamour girl, James explained on WHHY s Fresh Air in 1994.

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And so, then I started - what I was doing was trying to be a glamour girl, because I had been a tomboy most of the time.

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"I like the fact that by going with her, they weren't going with some glamour girl who's in magazines and trying to act like she's 25, " Wilson says of Page.

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Meanwhile there are plenty of upcoming players -- like Austria's Barbara Schett, Slovakia's Daniela Hantuchova and American Ashley Harkleroad -- aspiring to usurp Kournikova as the glamour girl of women's tennis while adding victories to the equation.

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The next 007 flick doesn't come out until December, but the first Chinese Bond Girl is rapidly racking up those international glamour points.

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