December 27, 2007
Is Keira Knightley on her Way to Becoming a Nudist?
Keira Knightley says she doesn’t want to get a reputation for taking her clothes off in movies.
The stunning Atonement actress is quickly becoming known for her willingness to bare all in films, but insists it wasn’t a conscious decision.
She told US chat show host Ellen DeGeneres: “I don’t know why it happened this way. People ask me to pose naked and I just say yes! I find it vaguely liberating.
“I hope I don’t become a nudist, but I’m definitely on my way!”
When she does wear period costumes in her films, Keira, who can soon be seen in the drama The Duchess, still finds it difficult to breathe in stomach-restraining corsets.
She laughed, “At the end of the day, it took me 10 minutes to learn to breathe normally.” Meanwhile, the actress has stripped to the bare essentials once more for a magazine photo shoot. Knightley, posing in just knickers and black stilettos, looks stunningly curvaceous. The seductive shots, for the January issue of a magazine, were taken by celebrated photographer Sam Taylor-Wood, who was responsible for persuading Keira to lose the corsets.
One image, where she arches her back seductively, half-balancing on a chair, appears to have been arranged just to accentuate her curves.
In another shot, Keira’s top half is naked apart from a pair of black braces and long black gloves. In both images, Miss Knightley, of course, mouths that ever-present pout.
