Liz Hurley: ‘I cover up in public because cameras now are really unflattering’
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Liz Hurley claims that she now covers up in public because today’s high-definition cameras are so unflattering.
The news may come as a surprise to the 2.9 million followers of the star’s Instagram account, where she regularly posts photographs of herself posing in bikinis.
However, the actress and model said: “I only show very small bits of me now. Because obviously, when you’re older, your skin isn’t so good on your body.
“And I do find myself covering up quite a lot when I’m in public because unfortunately, you know, cameras now are high-def and they’re really unflattering.”
Speaking to Times Radio, Hurley, 58, said that other celebrities do the same.
“If you look at the red carpet now, people are covered. They cover their arms, they cover their legs.
“They just show a little bit because it’s deeply unflattering, no matter how old you are. And people don’t like it. Why would they? Nobody likes it,” she said.
One of the trends at this year’s Met Gala and Bafta Television Awards was for outfits which revealed the wearer’s shape but covered their skin, such as Anita Rani’s daring see-through dress.
Hurley’s bikini snaps are often taken by her son, Damian, who directed her in Strictly Confidential.
“It’s relaxing knowing someone’s behind the camera who looks out for me, which was the same on the movie,” she previously explained.
‘Pro-Tory Brexit supporter’
In the interview with Jane Garvey and Fi Glover, Hurley was also asked if, as someone who understands farming - she had an organic farm in the Cotswolds until 2015 - she remained a “pro-Tory Brexit supporter”.
Hurley said she has not changed the way she voted, and said the amount of form-filling involved in farming was equally onerous pre-Brexit.
She said: “I obviously was not a big landowner, but I had an organic farm. I had 400 acres. We were part of the EU at that time. All I can say at that time is that the paperwork was absolutely astonishing.
“I don’t think any farmer could fill it out by himself. Everybody had to hire people to do it. It was the most confusing system I’d ever seen.
“I remember sitting there with my then husband and just thinking, we can’t cope with this paperwork. It’s unbelievable.”
Hurley added: “On the smaller amount of land that I now have, it’s so confusing, and I don’t know why. I don’t know why it can’t just be easy.
“The rules on set-aside, the rules on what you can plant and what you can’t plant, and what grants you may or may not get anymore…
“But it was a useless system before, and I think it’s pretty useless now too. So the plight of the British farmer is not over.”
