Julianne Hough hypnotizes the camera in the April 2015 issue of Allure as she posed for photographer Carter Smith.
Striking a plethora of dancer positions for her Allure feature, Julianne also talked about the anti-bullying Kind Campaign she’s involved with and her close-knit friends she calls “The Ishes.”
Hough is active with the Kind Campaign, an anti-bullying nonprofit that’s close to her heart. “I was bullied in high school,” says Hough, who struggled when she returned home from Europe at age 15. She eventually found her friends, the Ishes: “We were Mormon. Instead of saying, ‘That’s the shit,’ we’d be like, ‘That’s the ish,'” she explains.
Although the former Mormon is not longer active in her church, but she doesn’t regret how she was raised.
“I am so grateful that I was raised LDS,” she says. “I believe in their morals and their standards—and what they give out to the world, the service.” Hough never completed a Mormon mission. “I would do a mission, but not for the Mormon church,” says the star.
Last Halloween Julianne thought she was just paying homage to her favorite “Orange Is The New Black” character Crazy Eyes when she donned blackface, but she wasn’t ready for the public backlash that followed.
“Ignorance is sometimes not bliss; I really had no idea what I was doing, and it was all out of fun and respect for the character,” Hough says. “I don’t even know how to talk about it because it’s such a sensitive topic. It makes me so sad to think that I was that dumb. I learned a big lesson.”
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Julianne Hough Strikes Dancer Poses for ‘Allure'; Talks ‘Crazy Eyes’ Blackface Controversy Straight up smouldering! Julianne Hough hypnotizes the camera in the April 2015 issue of Allure as she posed for photographer Carter Smith.