Helen Mirren opened up about being called a “nudist.”
She has previously shared her love for nudist beaches.
“It is a fabulously liberating experience,” she said.

Fun fact about Helen Mirren: She’s number one on this list of celebrity nudists—and when it was pointed out to her in a recent interview, she had the best reaction. “That’s great!” she told the Los Angeles Times. “I’m not the sort of person who goes off to a nudist camp, but the very few times I’ve found myself naked on a beach or somewhere with a lot of other naked people, it is a fabulously liberating experience.”

The 77-year-old continued, adding that the communal vulnerability eliminates the pressures of typical beauty standards. “The whole construct of what it means to be a human being in terms of your earrings, your lipstick, your shirt, your age ... everything falls away!” she said. “And you become a different kind of human being, a human being that’s not related to anything physical. It’s a very lovely thing.”

To have made the aforementioned list, Mirren, of course, had to have previously opened up about baring it all in public. “It becomes very, very sweet—very human in a rather beautiful way,” she said of visiting nude beaches in a 2019 radio interview. “I’m proudly a naturist.”