Man, I've been waiting all week for the official release of this cover!
Michelle Williams looks so damn gorgeous on the February 2011 cover of Marie Claire.
The 30-year-old Blue Valentine actress is all smiles as she dons a Valentino dress and Tom Binns necklace.
Inside the pages, she opens up about the heartbreak associated with the passing of Heath Ledger.
"I used to feel under siege," she says of the paparazzi attention she and daughter Matilda gained after his death. "The sky was indeed falling, and I had to make us safe. It was making me very unhappy. I did not want to be in my life, but I found a way out of it. I just removed myself from the situation; there was a geographical solution to some of the problems."
These days, she's focused on raising Matilda one day at a time.
"I just feel as if I'm making it up as I go along," she says of life with her daughter. "I'm doing trial and error. I make mistakes every day, and I learn from my mistakes. I have to not get hung up on things I've done wrong, both as a mother and as an actress."
I just love Michelle Williams. Always so composed in interviews, and beautiful in photoshoots.
Click here for more of Michelle's cover story, and inside for behind-the-scenes video from the Marie Claire shoot.