Courtney Love on Frances Bean Cobain: 'teenagers are hard'

[sharon_b]

She may be known for her wild antics and trouble with the law but Courtney Love is trying her best for daughter Frances Bean.

Love, 43, says in a new U.K. magazine interview that she recently let 15-year-old Franny (as she calls her) go out alone with a daughter of rocker Sting – only to find out it was to see a film about suicide.

"I wanted to show [her] that she could go out in London without a nanny or bodyguard, so they went by themselves. I wanted to get her a cake because it is the first time she has gone anywhere on her own," she tells the Sunday Telegraph's Stella magazine.

Love, however, hadn't thought about the movie they were going to see – Control, the biopic about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, who committed suicide. "She came back so disturbed, because I forgot what the movie was about," she says – before crying at the memory.

'She Got the Best of Both of Us'

There's no doubt that she's proud of Frances, though. "I just want things to be good for her, but she's a lot like me and a lot like her dad. I think she got the best of both of us, so there's that."

However turbulent Love's life may be, the bond between her and her daughter – whom she's called a "brainiac" – is obviously intense. "She slept with me for the first time in a long time last night," Love says. "We get [along] well most of the time but teenagers are hard. Being a single mother is hard."

Meanwhile, Love is fronting a new campaign for clothing label Givenchy and recording her second solo CD. She has been in an ongoing weight battle and is back to a size four thanks to Madonna's macrobiotic nutritionist.

"You have to be thin all the time to make it as an actress. But my rock weight is 20 or 30 lbs. more than my film weight," she told the magazine.

Courtney Love on Frances Bean: 'Teenagers Are Hard' - Courtney Love : People.com

[Penny Lane]

Teenagers are hard? So is your face, Courtney. So is your face.

[sweetness]

"We get [along] well most of the time but teenagers are hard. Being a single mother is hard."

Well, you shouldn't have killed her daddy then!!

And besides, cry me a f*ckin river about being a single mother of ONE child when you have
nannies and housekeepers and sh*t.

[Laurent]

I don't know what Courtney has done to her face, but it looks like 10 miles of bad road.

Frances looks so much like Kurt . . . thank goodness.

[NicoleWasHere]

Courtney looks kind of like Joan Rivers. Francis... she's ok.

[Honey]

She looks so like Kurt, pretty girl. I saw a show about her and Frances hated her mum smoking, so maybe she will be OK?

[MissVenus]

How could you possibly be so stupid as to fret about your daughter going out alone only to then not remember that the movie she was going to see was predominantly about suicide...?

[Hugh_Jass]

this cracked out bitch doesn't know the first THING about being a mother. STFU idiot.

[sparkly]

I bet her daughter is mortified at the spectacle that is her own mother. I hope she doesn't have all the problems that her mother does.

[GoldDust77]

Originally Posted by MissVenus

How could you possibly be so stupid as to fret about your daughter going out alone only to then not remember that the movie she was going to see was predominantly about suicide...?

^^Exactly, Venus. I am appalled that Courtney let Frances see the movie "Control". It is about the super-talented rock-star Ian Curtis (lead singer of the great late-70s/early-80s band Joy Division), who had a wife & baby daughter and successful music career, but had demons he could not overcome, and so he committed suicide while in his mid-20s. Gee--sound familiar? Seeing that movie must have been very hard for poor Frances to watch, given what happened with her own dad which is SO similar. And AS IF Courtney was unaware of the story of Ian Curtis. GREAT mother she is.

Well, you shouldn't have killed her daddy then!!

^^I totally agree, Sweetness. Even given what i said above, what i truly believe is that Courtney did indeed have Kurt murdered. (Don't get me started on that topic!--I could blabber on & on & on & on about the overwhelming evidence!...)

[DoveFeatheredRaven]

CL totally killed KC. But that is another topic. She is right, teenagers ARE hard work. But how she would ever know this is beyond me. It seems an army of help or family has raised Frances.

[cmmdee]

Courtney's face looks effed up

[Lily]

Dear Courtney,

Maybe it wouldn't be so hard if you were an actual mother and not a druggy skanky self-centered bitch.

Love,
Lily

[Chilly Willy]

Wow. Francis Bean has all right to become a messed up drug addicted loser. I wouldn't blame her.

[Bijoux]

I'm actually really surprised that Frances has turned out so good. (for now anyway) I think that has everything to do with Wendy O'Connor (Kurts mom), who has had alot to do with helping raise Frances.

Courtney killed Kurt. We all know it deep down.