Charlize Theron Discusses Her Childhood

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Lost all her baby teeth to jaundice

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Charlize Theron didn’t always have the enviable Hollywood smile she
has now.

The Oscar-winning star, 36, reveals that her early childhood was
“quite devastating” because she didn’t have any teeth until she was
11.

“I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid and I was
put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted. They had to cut them
out,” Theron told the U.K.’s The Sun.

“So I never had milk teeth. That was tough, you know, being in school
having photos taken while I was pretending I had teeth,” she recalled.
“It was hideous.”

By the time she was 16, however, the “Snow White and the Huntsman”
actress had plenty of reasons to smile when she was discovered by a
modeling scout.

"It was totally by mistake,” Theron said. “My mother thought it would
be a funny joke. Modeling was never a passion of mine, but it was this
incredible opportunity."

"I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the
bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there,” she
continued. “I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So
travel was something I was always attracted to.

“I didn’t come from wealth. I hadn’t even been on a plane prior to
that.”

Theron also opened up about being a first-time mom to son Jackson,
whom she adopted in March.

"I've never felt more creative and with more energy but on the tiniest
amount of sleep,” she said. “I never knew I needed that little sleep.
I always had eight hours and now it's, 'Wow, OK, you can function on
just four.' But Jackson is great. I've always been very aware of
balance and, even before I had a child, my life always takes priority
to my work."

"I feel very blessed that I have this job but my job is not my life,”
she added. “I'm really lucky that I get to go and do this, but my life
is pretty kick-ass, and I take real priority in that."