Hollywood icon Anne Hathaway was told in her early days of working as an actress that she really did not have any sex appeal.

‘I was like, “I’m a Scorpio. I know what I’m like on a Saturday night,”‘ she told the magazine as she graced the cover in a black bra with her hair up.

But she added things were different 20 years ago.

‘The male gaze was very dominant and very pervasive and very juvenile,’ added the Oscar winner who admitted that she worried about she came off to the world.

The star – who is promoting her new romantic comedy The Idea Of You about an older woman who hooks up with a younger pop star – played the part of a femme fatale for photographer Norman Jean Roy for the publication as she modeled black leotards and a nearly see through dress.

Hollywood icon Anne Hathaway was told in her early days of working as an actress that she really did not have any sex appeal. And in the April cover of Vanity Fair magazine the 41-year-old actress said that was just plain silly. ‘I was like, “I’m a Scorpio. I know what I’m like on a Saturday night,”‘ she told the magazine

The former teen star told writer Julie Miller that she used to be full of anxiety which caused her problems on movie sets – she is known for the movies The Princess Diaries and The Devil Wears Prada