SINCLAIR, Layla M.

[layla sinclair]

LAYLA SINCLAIR layla marguerite sinclair (born 01/01/1992) is an american socialite, model and actress. she gained notoriety from the release of her controversial sex tape with then boyfriend, lukas harvey. the daughter of supermodel bianca hart it was believed that her father was oscar award winning actor and director ezra sinclair until a paternity test in 2011 proved that he was not her biological father. she is best known for her debut performance as 'cindy banks' in the romantic drama 'homecoming' which earned her a golden globe award and an academy award nomination.

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your signature: i don't think i have one.
your coffee order: green tea.
your go-to magazine: vogue paris.
your favorite brand: rag & bone.
your ultimate goal: to get married.

I absolutely don't understand: men.
I've always looked up to: athena oliveras.
I'm most likely to feud with: bianca hart.
I'm starting to pay attention to: social media again.
I've always wanted to hook up with: clark gable during his prime.
I wonder what it's like to be: a normal girl.

"i don't think i'm really the kind of person that anyone should follow or aspire to be or look up to. if you want some guidance, the only advice i could give is to look at my life and everything i've done and do the opposite. beware of people that want to hurt you, or worse, care nothing for you. there are a lot of people that will use you, whether it be for your fame or your money or your body. try to keep your private life private and grow a thick skin, because not everyone is going to like you and there's always someone that's going to hate something about you."

what, if anything, keeps you grounded?

twitter. or just the internet in general. if at any time i let my head get too big, there's always someone on twitter or tumblr or facebook that thinks i'm too thin or too fat, that i can't model, i didn't dress well on the red carpet or that i ruined a movie with my mere presence. everyone has their opinions and social media are usually the most scathing. it keeps me humble to say the least.

would you rather relive your best moment or redo your worst mistake?

doesn't everyone want to redo their worst mistake and try and fix things?

where's your escape from the city?

i don't know... i travel a lot, so i don't think there's any one place. i have a beautiful chateau in southern france that i visit every winter, although i try to get out there as much as i can. i also love to head to greece to spend time with my yah-yah, she always tries to 'feed me up' while i'm there so i usually need a solid month at the gym to recover. apart from that, barcelona or monaco is another favourite. and paris, of course. when i'm on location or i'm filming extensively, just heading to the spa for a facial or a massage is all the escape i need sometimes.

what are you like when you're out of the spotlight?

cheeky? i don't know. i think a lot of people might say they are the same both in and out of the spotlight, but when it comes to me, i know it's not true. to be honest, the spotlight terrifies me. a lot. i don't like to be judged, and i don't like to be disliked but unfortunately every time i leave my house that is all everyone ever does. when i'm in the spotlight i rely heavily on my team, my publicist and my manager, mostly. i like to be composed and sweet and polite in public, and sometimes it's still hard to keep my nerves in check. when i'm alone or with friends, i like to relax and be myself a little more. you know, i laugh, i joke, i tease and i even bake sometimes. 

how do you think your team would describe working with you?

i honestly don't think i could answer that. perhaps you should ask them yourself. preferably while i'm out of earshot. i don't know.. hopefully they wouldn't think i'm too horrible to put up with. i adore them, i wouldn't be anywhere without any of them. i depend on them a lot , maybe even a little too much. they're a lifeline to me so hopefully they wouldn't say i'm needy or demanding or anything like that... they might though. i don't know.

were there any deciding moments in your career?

i couldn't really say... maybe that first movie with my dad. everyone thought i was going to run his film into the ground and instead it was nominated for an oscar. i'm so glad i didn't mess that up for my daddy. 

any inside details on your latest project?

it's a cameron crowe film, and contractually, that's literally all i can say about it. but it's amazing and i'm having a lot of fun filming it, of course. i can't wait for everyone to see it.

 

father: unknown
mother: bianca hart
siblings: jack roosevelt, 27 (half brother). hugo barrett, 6 (half brother)
other: ezra sinclair (adoptive father).


i was born into a family that was always in and would always be in the spotlight, i'm not the first or the last to do so, not in the world, not even amongst my friends, but things in the sinclair household were never the same as it was in theirs. my mother... was no regular mother. she was an addict and a cheater. from before i could remember she had no sense of responsibility for anyone or anything.i probably didn't grow up like a lot of other kids, always travelling, raised by nannies, privy to my mother's skewed view on the world. i was always a daddy's girl, because he was always my champion. taking me off ridiculous diets or pills as a child when bianca decided that she couldn't wait for me to grow out of my puppy fat, saying no to scouts and agencies when bianca tried to force me into modelling as a baby, keeping bianca in line after every publicity stunt and trainwreck moment in front of the cameras. he loved her so much and he thought he could save her, but no one could save her from herself. she cheated on him regularly, while he was away filming, she never really bothered to even hide it. her drinking and drug use weren't much different, i grew up amongst it all. it wasn't unusual to send mom off to rehab or to dial 911 when she wouldn't wake up. and despite all that it was her that left us. i'm not surprised now, but i was back then, and i think my father was too. she went back to her ex husband or whatever he was, a mobster and a creep is all he is to me.

we were better off without her, and i'll always stick by that. my dad was my hero and i tried to travel with him as much as possible when i was younger. i hated being away from him and being alone, i couldn't stand the thought that he might leave me too. usually i was on set with him when he was filming, or in LA on his time off but occasionally when filming was too much i would stay with my grandparents in greece. i was born there, i speak the language, i know the culture, but i wasn't really greek, not to the locals especially who always had hated my mother. needless to say i never really fit in there. 

when i was 14, i talked my dad into letting me enroll at boarding school in france. i always loved france and the french part of me was always stronger then the greek part of me. i loved boarding school. i made amazing friends and travelled endlessly. i dated royalty and movie stars and heirs, i lived a life of wealth and leisure without the spotlight for a few short years and it was amazing. i wish that my life was more like those days. when i graduated high school i headed back to LA to stay with my daddy and start university, but i dropped out only a few weeks into my freshman year. college wasn't for me. i didn't have the smarts or the staying power to stick around, i knew i was never going to be a scholar. at the time i just wanted to be mrs jameson polshuk, but that wasn't for me either. but the moment i stepped off the plane at LAX i was back in the spotlight, back being chased by paparazzi, back in the tabloids, back being hounded every day. once i dropped out of college, i searched for something to fill my time other then chasing boys because i started getting into a bit of trouble. i don't know what it is but trouble just seems to find me. i was chasing my childhood friend's ex boyfriend and that got me into a lot of trouble, i lied about my age and started dating a cop that was 9 years older then me, which wasn't so bad until his partner found out and tried to charge him with statutory rape. and then i was found by lukas.

a lot of people had a lot to say about lukas harvey and i. he had a less then stellar reputation and at first, he all but terrified me, but despite what everyone says i always saw a different side to him. the first day i met him, i was reluctant to trust him but he was so sweet behind that camera, he made me feel beautiful and then he was so mesmerised by me that we made love on his desk, right then and there. and from then on, i was 110% head over heels in love with him. we had our ups and downs, he had his problems with drugs and alcohol and i went along on his ride with him because i couldn't not... he was so charismatic and enigmatic that i couldn't ever say no to him. i don't remember the sex tape. i remember it being released because it was one of the worst days of my life, but i don't remember filming it. i was high and drunk and there was never anything i wouldn't do for lukas so i can see how it came about. i  wish it never saw the light of day, i wish lukas and i kept that side of us between us, but i also wish that it showed how we really were, how we really made love, because that was the part of lukas and i that i loved. 

we broke up and made up a lot, to say the least. everyone knows the stories. the press always loved to follow us and make up outrageous stories of lukas beating me or brainwashing me or blackmailing me. i don't know why they couldn't just let us be happy, but i guess happy doesn't sell magazines. some people say he ruined my career and others said he made me what i am today, a lot of people say the same about me in regards to him and i don't know which is right and which is wrong, if either.

lukas lived for shock value and theatrics and through the years it made it harder to be with him. the stories are notorious around the world, the worst probably being the all white collection he put together for 2011 new york fashion week only to slit his wrists and drench the dresses in his blood before the models walked. i didn't think he would survive that night, but he did and i stayed by him every second until he was well again. and it wasn't the only time, i think i've lost count of the amount of times he overdosed, a clubs, at parties, at home, at the studio. each time more terrifying then the next because i thought i might truly lose him. we all knew he had a problem, but rehab never helped, and he wasn't himself without them so who were we to say he was wrong? eventually, he was institutionalised here in los angeles. i still visit him at least once a week. i miss him, but it's hard to miss him at the same time, because he's not the same anymore. he's not the same man that loved me... 

after he was admitted, it was a bad time for me. following that devastating news, i found out through pure coincidence during a charity blood drive that my father's and my blood types didn't match up. i didn't think much of it at the time, but rumours spread immediately through hollywood and the press. i shouldn't have been surprised bianca was always a liar and a cheater, but when my curiosity got the best of me and i finally got a paternity test the news that ezra sinclair wasn't my father was heartbreaking. my father and i didn't talk for weeks and my mother and i haven't talked since i found out. it doesn't seem like a huge deal to most, but finding out the most important person in your life isn't even your kin tips your whole world upside down. i didn't know who my real father was, what kind of person he was or how he even knew my mother. i had a minor identity crisis that was eventually calmed by ezra. he made me realise that while he wasn't my blood he was the man that raised me and loved me indefinitely regardless.. and he was right. if anything i loved him more knowing that he would take me back anyway, after everything bianca and i had put him through. 

interspersed in all that drama and pain was more movies, a couple indie hits, a few blockbusters, a lot of dramatic work... i don't have the timing for comedy. i never thought acting would be my forte, i'm usually such a shy person but i guess that's exactly why i'm so good at it, because it's not me up there it's the character. it's being myself that is the hard part. and not having lukas' support and encouragement anymore is hard, people said a lot of horrible things about him, but at the end of the day he wasn't much different from my father, he championed me when no one else would. last year was my biggest year, i had two movies premiering and i was working on three others through out the year. i've been keeping myself busy and out of the dating scene since lukas went away but this year, i think i might try and get my toes wet a little or i think i'll pine away for lukas all my life...

alias: tiana
age: 24
play-by: lais ribeiro
spotlight group: red carpet
city: la
listening to: blue velvet - lana del rey

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