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Isla Fisher: I'm "Very Close" to Wedding Sasha Baron Cohen

Monday, January 12, 2009 1:03 PM

Here comes the bride!

After seven years of dating (plus the birth of their one-and-half-year-old daughter, Olive), Isla Fisher tells the February issue of Allure that she is finally about to wed Sasha Baron Cohen.

"We are going to get married, really, really, even more now than ever," she says. "We have been talking about it and we have been very close, but it has been difficult to plan."

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"It is very important to me to have a beautiful ritual celebrated with all my family and friends, and to feel part of a community," she adds. "And when you are in the public eye, to keep that private and to make it happen without it being really visible is really difficult."

To prepare for the impending nuptials, Fisher converted to Judaism from Methodism.

"I converted as of two years ago," she says. "It is always reported that I am still studying, so I am either the slowest studier in the world, or I have, in fact, converted."

As part of the process, she took the Hebrew name Ayala, or "doe."

"I never saw it as a losing or gaining situation, just an embracing situation," she adds. "I think if one wanted to be buried next to one's beloved and they were Jewish, then one would have to be Jewish, too."

("That came out really weird,” she then jokes. "Scratch the burial.")

While she'll only call Cohen "mysterious and interesting," she says the family she created with him is "the thing that I am the most proud of. And that is thanks to him."

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The actress -- whose movie Confessions of a Shopaholic hits theaters Feb. 9 -- says she really related to her role in Wedding Crashers.

"I...won the [MTV] breakthrough performance award for playing a bipolar nymphomaniac, which is basically playing myself," she jokes to the magazine after seeing a photo of herself right after the big win.

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