'I've got no sex appeal': Anne Hathaway reveals anguish over her 'vanilla' image...as she vamps it up in corset for racy magazine shoot

With her much lauded performance in Les Misérables garnering praise and box office gold aplenty, you'd think Anne Hathaway would be on top of the world. 
But the 30-year-old actress, who is being hyped for an Oscar for her performance as Fantine in the film, has revealed her inner torment at not being 'cool.'
Hathaway hates that she's seen as a 'bizarre-world good-girl character', and feels she's labelled as 'very vanilla, very sweet, very accessible and not interesting,' despite posing in a corset for a racy new shoot for Harper's Bazaar magazine.

'No sex appeal': Anne Hathaway admits that she's plagued by her nice girl image as she vamps it up for a Harper's Bazaar

'I'm not Rihanna,' she told the fashion mag. 'I'm not cool. When people come up to me in the street, they often want a hug not a photo, and they want that because they like my work.
'For a long time it was me and her [her manager] against the world. I was seen as this bizarre-world good-girl cartoon that I in no way identified with – very vanilla, very sweet, very accessible and not interesting.
'I had no grit, no sex appeal.'

Not sexy? Anne Hathaway says she's perceived as 'vanilla' but she looked pretty sultry at the premiere for Les Mis in London this December

True love: Anne with husband Adam Shulman in New York last week; she says he makes her so happy it made it hard to play tragic Fantine

Friends in high places: Anne partied with Madonna and her designer mentor Valentino for New Year's Eve in Gstaad, Switzerland

Dancing up a storm: Nobody could call Madonna 'vanilla'