Radiant: The actress claims she hasn't been in a bikini since she was 20 but shone in this photoshoot from her sonAsk a woman what she would like for her 62nd birthday, and what would you expect? A piece of jewellery maybe? A day at a spa with the girls? A pair of
sheepskin slippers to head off the Autumn chill?
Not actress Jane Seymour.
Her joint gift from her son and best friend was a photoshoot on a Malibu beach, in a tiny designer bikini that would have most women her age reaching for the cooking sherry.
Back then: She was carefree about baring all on the shore in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger in 1977
Jane, the English–born beauty who shot to fame as the Tarot-reading Solitaire in the 1973 Bond film Live and Let Die, says she last wore a bikini when she was 20.
The resulting photograph, however – shot by her eldest son Sean on the beach outside her home - shows that the years have been incredibly generous to the grandmother-of-three.
Speaking to Hello! Magazine, she explains how she opened the bikini first, a gift from her long-time best friend, designer Cheri Ingle, on her birthday back in February.
‘I said, “you must be joking!”’ Jane recalls. ‘I thought this was a big joke.’
Stunning: The English beauty shunned makeup in her recent shoot - unlike in this glamorous magazine snap
She said 'you must be joking!' when her photographer son Sean, 28, asked her to pose in the sunset
Changed: The elegant picture shows a very different Jane to her voluptuous younger self in 1981
Joining them for the celebration was her son Sean, now a 28-year-old fine art photographer.
He’d repeatedly asked his mother what she had wanted for her birthday, and as sunset approached, they came up with the idea.
‘In the spirit of that joke we just said, “OK, let’s go down to the beach. It was no hair, no make-up, no retouching. Just a gift from a son to a mother and a girlfriend to her friend.’
Jane split from her fourth husband James Keach last year after 20 years of marriage.
She has four children: Sean and his 31-year-old sister Katie, from her 11-year marriage to businessman David Flynn, which ended in 1992.
She puts her image down to hard work and surgery - having admitted to a boob job and eye lift 20 years ago
She married actor James Keach in 1993 and together they had twin boys Jonny and Kristopher, who’re now 17.
She puts her amazing body down to a mixture of hard work and surgery (she’s admitted to having breast augmentation 20 years ago, and an eyelift years ago).
For everything else, she credits exercise and good living, mixing Pilates, gyrotonics (a system of exercise that incorporates movement principles from yoga, dance and gymnastics), spinning classes, weight training and ‘a little bit of golf’
‘I’m not crazy about it,’ she says. ‘I do eat, drink and be merry, but I pay some attention to my healthy too. I’m just so fortunate to be healthy and so fortunate generally in life.’
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