Scarlett Johansson covers this week’s issue of Parade. The cover is a bit whack and I sort of find of amusing that an “artiste” like ScarJo has to go “downmarket” to Parade. But that’s what happens when you’re shilling a massive comic-book movie which needs to make more than a billion dollars. And while ScarJo doesn’t need to give up any juicy gossip for Parade, she still managed to throw in some interesting tidbits about her current marriage (to Romain Dauriac) and her former marriage (to Ryan Reynolds). Some highlights from Parade:

Where she lives: “I live a little bit of everywhere. My husband and I and the baby are a little bit nomadic at the moment.”

An allusion to her marriage to Ryan Reynolds: “Acting is a very strange world to be co-existing in. It’s very volatile. There’s always going to be the more successful person. It’s related to rejection. Because actors, if they’re not having success, connect it directly to unpopularity—to the fact that nobody wants them. It’s not necessarily true. I’m constantly rejected.

Marriage is hard: “It takes a lot of work. It takes a man who’s not only confident in the love that you have for one another, but confident in what he has going on in his own career. He has to be in a field that’s completely different from yours. My husband’s also involved in art. What’s important to him is the recognition that he gets from his job, and that has nothing to do with my job.”

Her current husband: “We like to go out and go dancing. Other times, we like to sit at home and eat Thai food and watch House Hunters International for four hours. And we’re interested in each other’s worlds. He’s interested in my weird, alien entertainment world. It fascinates him because it’s so different than what he knows. And I like to go to art openings with him and talk about art and emerging artists with him. That’s his passion.”

Her relationship with Chris Evans: “I’ve known Chris since I was 17, when we did The Perfect Score. This is our fifth movie together. We’re like Bogart and Bacall.”

She doesn’t want her daughter in the spotlight: “It’s hard. On the one hand, you don’t want to isolate your kids, but you don’t want to make your kids feel like freaks: There’s this fascination with famous kids, like they’re celebrity spawn.”

Parenting rules: “I think you just have to encourage your kids to be who they are, be themselves and not live in the shadow of your accomplishments.”

[From Parade]

I feel her on House Hunters International. I can turn it off when it’s a regular House Hunters marathon but when it’s a marathon of the HH International? It gets really difficult. Especially if there are families moving to cool cities and they actually have money to spend on good real estate.

As for the stuff about being married to an actor… her comments are begging to be parsed, right? “It’s very volatile. There’s always going to be the more successful person.” Meaning… Ryan had issues with Scarlett’s success while they were married? She was becoming one of the most in-demand actresses and winning Tony Awards for her stage turns while Ryan was… working on Green Lantern. This is also begging to be parsed: Marriage “takes a man who’s not only confident in the love that you have for one another, but confident in what he has going on in his own career.” Do I spy some very pointed shade? Hm.

Photos courtesy of Parade, WENN.