Veteran actress Helen Mirren, 72, has posed topless inside a pool.
Mirren, who has been acting for over 50 years, opened up about being called a sex symbol while going topless for the cover of Rhapsody magazine, reports dailymail.co.uk.
In the photograph, Mirren stripped off in the pool, with only the water to cover her modesty.
"I've had to come to terms with it over a long period of time, luckily it's fading now," Mirren said while accepting that she was an object of desire.
According to a source, the Oscar winner has decided to pen a tell-all book which will go into detail about her 2001 divorce from Tom Cruise and her life with husband Keith Urban, who spent time in rehab in 2007 for alcoholism
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