Rock hard beauty Kristen Bell is on the cover of the May 2008 issue of Women’s Health magazine. Below are a few snippets from her interview with Women’s Health that can be read in it’s entirety HERE.

On being the mischievous narrator of the CW’s “Gossip Girl”:

“I channel that voice everybody’s had in their head since grade school. It’s the critical voice that pops up when you see somebody who’s wearing mom jeans, you know what I mean? It’s a defense mechanism–that’s what cattiness and gossip are. You’re worried that someone is thinking something bad about you, so you think it about them first.”

On her role as the one and only “Sarah Marshall”:

“Sarah was written in a beautiful way: She’s not just the antagonist or the victim. Typically in romantic comedies one person is demonized the other isn’t. But this is like Knocked Up; all the lines are blurred. Nobody’s really at fault and that’s how reality is. Sarah is probably 25 percent bitch, 25 percent airhead, and 50 percent real.”

On dating Dax Shepard and dealing with the paparazzi:

“It amplifies the feeling that everything I do is looked at, and it makes me hyper-aware and insecure. You’re on display when you really don’t want to be. That’s why I’ve become more reclusive. At my house with my friends, I don’t need to deal with that stuff.”

“…I really like [the video game] Mario Kart, and I have to remind myself, ‘You are in real traffic!’ It’s scary because the photographers run red lights. So by making them chase me, I could cause an accident, and nothing is worth risking that. I could complain about this all day, but everybody’s job has downfalls. Some people are in an office and their butts fall asleep in their chairs; this is just what I have to deal with.”

On her personal security and living a low-key life:

“I’m more of a homebody. I’m constantly asked: ‘Why don’t we see you out?’ But that’s not what drives me. I prefer to have people over–which I do a lot…”

“I’m not going to become anybody I don’t want to become. But I’ve been followed by photographers a lot lately, and it makes me insecure.”

Full Women’s Health Interview