Soul Sisters
As the saying goes, You can fool the world but not your sister. Photographer Max Vadukul documents 23 famous siblings, and Lynn Hirschberg explains the dynamics of one of the most intimate—and complicated—relationships. Click here to read the article.
December 2011
Julianne Moore and Valerie Wells
“In my earliest memory of her,” says the actress Julianne
Moore (left), 51, of her sister, Valerie (right), 50, “she’s
standing in her crib holding out her arms and I’m pulling her out.
We’ve always been best friends.” The children of a military
judge and a psychiatric social worker, the sisters and their brother,
Peter, attended nine different schools during a childhood spent in
Nebraska, Alaska, New York, Virginia, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, and
Germany. “A lot of our dinner table conversation was about what we
were going through emotionally,” recalls Moore, who next tackles
the role of Sarah Palin in Game Change, a forthcoming HBO film.
Nowadays, Moore lives in Manhattan, and Wells, a real estate executive,
in Northern Virginia. “Whenever I see her, I like to go through
her purse,” says Moore. “She’s my sister, so she can
go through my stuff, and I can go through hers. We’re also an
amazing cleaning team. When I was pregnant with my first child [Caleb,
14], I was feeling overwhelmed and, as a baby-shower present, my sister
flew to L.A. to help me clean out my garage. She knew she was the one
person who could help me get it done.”
December 2011
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