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by Carrie Borzillo

The beauty expectation is a way of controlling women.”
– Shirley Manson

Fans of the ’90s alt-rock hitmakers Garbage will have to wait a wee bit longer for the long-awaited solo album from the band’s lead vixen Shirley Manson and maybe even longer for a new release from the group that brought us such hits as “Stupid Girl,” “Only Happy When It Rains,” “#1 Crush,” and “The World is Not Enough,” the theme from the James Bond film of the same name.

You see, Manson’s got a new gig and she is rather enjoying it. The redheaded singer-turned-actress from Edinburgh, Scotland, has a co-starring role on Fox’s hit show Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles where she plays the shape-shifting Terminator (à la Robert Patrick in Terminator 2) Catherine Weaver, who is sent back from the future to run the fictitious ZeiraCorp tech company, which serves as a precursor to Skynet, the company that will ultimately ensure machine’s triumph over man.

Manson kicked ass onstage with Garbage, cementing her place as one of the strongest female figures in music in the ’90s, and now she is kicking ass as a stone-cold fox of a Terminator for the TV version of the sci-fi thriller series. At her Los Feliz, CA, home, Manson, 40, talked music, television, women’s issues, and her battles with cutting, depression, body dysmorphic disorder, and more… over a cup of tea, of course.

Read our exclusive interview with Shirley Manson on SuicideGirls.com/.