With her new movie "Resident Evil: Retribution" set to hit theaters on September 14th, Milla Jovovich pitched in on promotions by covering the October 2012 issue of Flare magazine.

The 36-year-old Ukrainian born beauty sizzled in a Calvin Klein Collection dress, Fallon earrings, a CBD bangle and a Baccarat ring for the Max Abadian shot front page while dishing about everything from bullies and acting to her mother, husband and daughter.

Highlights from Miss Jovovich's interview are as follows. For more, be sure to pay a visit to Flare!

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For my mom, education was the most important thing. She said, 'You know, the modeling stuff is all well and good and a pretty face will get you through the door, but what are you going to do when you get there? What's gonna happen when you open your mouth?' Also, when you work with these photographers, when you go into a career like modeling, you can't just go in empty-handed or empty-headed. There has to be something behind your eyes or else you're just going to be fly-by-night. It was always about reading literature, looking at art books, looking at framing...Who is this photographer? Where did they come from? What kind of lighting did they use?

Definitely, my beauty routine has always been to start from the inside out. You have to take care of yourself, what you eat, what you drink, you know? Then, of course, there's the normal routine of washing your face, moisturizing, and if you have the luxury of getting facials and massages, that's perfect, too. But I don't really, because I'm constantly working and traveling and I can't afford to go to a facialist and be all sore and red for a few days. So I just use a lot of exfoliators to keep my skin fresh. I'm very picky about what I put on my face. At the same time, I feel like you have to always use different things, because once your skin gets too used to something it sort of deadens the effect of it, so I try to cycle between lots of products. [READ MORE]

You don't need to be on the red carpet to cause a sensation in Cannes. Milla Jovovich was the talk of the Hotel Martinez when she posed for PEOPLE on the steps of the luxury hotel's spiral staircase. Built in 1929, the Martinez is one of the palatial hotels lining the Croisette, the famous waterfront promenade in Cannes.

The actress, 36, was at the film festival last week as an ambassador for L'Oréal and to attend the gala benefit for the AIDS research charity amFAR. So what does one pack to come to the world's most glamorous film festival? "The highest heels, no trainers, the crazy dresses," said Jovovich. "If you can go to the supermarket, it shouldn't be here." [SOURCE]

• The countdown is on! Thrilled 2 be part of the amazing @lifeball in Vienna representing @amfAR to raise $ for people living with HIV & AIDS.
• WOW! we might actually be able to get my new single "electric sky" that we'll b debuting at the #LIFEBALL onto iTunes by the 19th of May!
• it's all happened so incredibly fast,but i'm so proud 2 play my 1st new song live to help raise funds n awareness 4 AIDS research!
• @FreddiieFonck i'm shooting a vid directed by my boy @simoncahn that i'm trying to get out by july for this song!
• @NatyTrickyAngel no, don't have a name for it yet... still putting the tracks together in sum comprehensive manner 2 get my brain around it!

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• Hey every1! It's been a busy new year already! I have cooking scars from all the holiday dinners, burn marks on my arms that are worse than any wound I got filming RE! Lol! Now I've been taking my bubba to school, picking her up and I've enrolled her in the best tae kwon do school here in LA which we go to everyday and she LOVES! Also, tryingto enroll her in a great school for september, so been writing essays and applications and all that. So busy in mommy land and a bit of work of course! Have to look through almost 500 pages of pics from RE and choose... Phew! But today I'm working with one of my closest friends, make up artist Jillian Dempsey for a new Avon fragrance which is fun and then we take the bubba for a week to the beach on Wednesday! Anyway, it's been amazing to just get home and decompress after working so much the last few years. Xo m

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"I've had a really great, really long, diverse career, but I feel like people are still constantly surprised that I'm good at something." Suddenly, she launches into her best mock movie critic voice to drive home the point: "Surprisingly great performance by Milla Jovovich!" It's followed by a peal of laughter, but also by the wistful acknowledgement that after more than 20 years in front of the camera, both in film and fashion, it would be nice for some more-than-faint-praise commendation. Still, it's not about to keep the woman dubbed by VH1 as "the reigning queen of kick-butt" up at night. "Whatever, it is what it is. I take everything with a pinch of salt," she says. "I feel very blessed to still be around and relevant, doing lots of exciting things with my life."

"It's like my evil baby," says the actress of the nearly decade-old Resident Evil franchise, noting that the opportunity to return again and again to the same character has been especially satisfying. "Paul and I have this incredibly creative relationship," Jovovich says. "We make fun movies together." Anderson agrees: "We have fun making movies, and the movies are designed to entertain. They are the kind of movies that if the audience stands up and cheers, we've done our job right. From a director's point of view, it's a pleasure to work with her. She literally puts 1,000 percent into what she does." [SOURCE]