Her super-svelte figure made her famous but as she approaches 50, Liz Hurley has abandoned her quest for slimness — and thinks other older women should too.
The 47-year-old model showed off her enviable physique in a series of revealing outfits in the March issue of the Russian edition of Tatler and admitted that she has always been very strict about what she eats.
As she ages, however, Liz says she is relaxing her diet because she doesn’t think skinny older women are attractive.
“I keep my eye on what I eat all the time, because now that we’re older we have to make a conscious decision if we want to stay relatively slim,” she said.
“But as you get older, it doesn’t actually look that attractive to be super skinny.”
Liz isn’t the only celebrity to advocate a curvier look as she matures. Nigella Lawson has said she will never slim down because she would “age 10 years instantly” and Kirstie Alley has bemoaned how much older she looks since she lost weight.
Liz also spoke about her relationship with fiancé Shane Warne, revealing the distance between their respective homelands was behind their delay in tying the knot.
“We’d love to [get married], and it’s top of our to-do list, but we just haven’t,” she said. “It’s logistically quite difficult, because half the family are in Australia and half the family are here [in the UK].
“We got engaged very early because we thought it was very important for the kids to know that there was serious intent behind it, and that we were really setting out to make our own family on a different level — of course Shane’s kids still have their mother, and Damian still has Arun — but us getting married is really about the children and us.”
