Liv Tyler’s teenage mix-up over her two dads was so bizarre even her therapist was stunned. The actress struggled to come to terms with the fact that rocker Todd Rundgren wasn’t her real father and the Aerosmith star she idolized, Steven Tyler, was - and the realization sent her to therapy.

She says, “I had such a complicated growing-up experience with my dad and stepdad, and the therapist was literally just sitting there like she couldn’t believe it all. I actually shocked the therapist with my life story.”

The actress is terrified of crowds and passes out whenever her emotions get the better of her. She reveals, “I’ve fainted a few times. Once at a press conference, I almost fainted. I got a fear and then that terrified me. I passed out on set once - I was about to do my first scene in a Robert Altman film, called Cookie’s Fortune with Julianne Moore and Glenn Close, and right before I walked out I passed out.

“It’s the scariest thing in the world. I mean, literally, you just feel like your whole body is about to shut down and die. You get all flushed and hot and nervous, but the thing that’s so weird is… I always make an announcement; I say, ‘Honey, I’m gonna faint now,’ and two seconds later I, like, hit the deck.”

Liv Tyler says she spent years worrying about her weight – until she became a mom.

“I’ve been a model and actress since I was 14, so I’ve been on a diet my whole life,” the actress, 29, says in the March issue of Glamour.

“But once I gave birth, I didn’t want to think about myself or feel insecure about my career; I wanted to think about my child. So I stopped worrying about diets.”

Still, the mom of 2-year-old Milo (with husband Royston Langdon, 34) says she recently lost 10 pounds without even trying while filming the thriller The Strangers in South Carolina.

“I’ve been eating like a pig. I think it’s because I hired this chef on the set of Strangers to cook for me, and I ate a lot of vegetables and protein. Filming was also incredibly intense: We were supposed to be out of breath in every scene, so I would run around the stage to achieve that. I just went to Marc Jacobs and I bought a red dress in a size 4. I’ve never been a size 4 in my entire life!”

She also weighs in on the debate over super-thin actresses and models. “I definitely think the girls look too skinny now,” she says. “I’m friends with Helena Christensen and Linda Evangelista, and I remember Linda telling me that when she was a model [in the ’90s], a sample size was a 6 or an 8. Now a sample dress size is a 0 or a 2. That’s pretty alarming. There’s a lot of pressure on [the models]. It’s not healthy. I can’t even imagine what that’s like.”

Tyler says she’s more interested in being herself – and to that end, she took a two-year hiatus from film work so she could devote time to being a mom, and experience she describes as “transformational.”

“Is that a word?” she asks with a laugh, then adds, “Getting pregnant and caring for a baby gave me a confidence I’d never had before. I really felt I’d done something well, and I can’t say that about anything else in my life.”

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Plot Summary: After he’s fired from his job, an everyday guy (Dax Shepard) faces pressure from his wife (Liv) to have a baby and from his mom (Diane Keaton) who has decided to move in with the young couple.