Former Miss Universe Jennifer Hawkins, 26, is the latest beauty to go nude on a magazine cover without airbrushing. Marie Claire Australia publishes the beauty in its upcoming issue, warts and all, so to speak.
“I’m not a stick figure. I thought it would be great to tell women to just be themselves and be confident,” said Hawkins.
Let’s face it, Jennifer doesn’t have much to hide. She is super slim and in shape, but she says it’s something she has to work at.
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“My issue was that I was too tall, and slightly too thin,” she admits. She also hated public speaking. “I was quite shy at school and if I was asked to do a speech, I’d make any excuse to get out of it.”
She says she never could have done a shoot like this two years ago. “I would have been worried about what people thought, whether it was the right decision – a thousand different things… ” she tells the magazine.
“But over the past year and a half I’ve grown into myself, and I’m more confident and comfortable within the modelling industry. I did it for the experience… It felt quite sensual and sexy. I felt empowered,” she added.
Hawkins says she keeps her body in great condition through regular exercise and a balanced diet.
“I’ll have oats in the morning, or rye toast with avocado; a wrap for lunch; and maybe a chicken salad for dinner. If you eat a balanced diet, you’re so much happier … but I couldn’t not eat, I don’t know how,” she says.
Jen runs three times a week and does the odd session of yoga and pilates; she keeps her skin glowing by diligently cleansing and moisturising every day.
In fact, the opportunity to promote healthy eating and exercise was one of the attractions of this bare-all shoot. “They’re the things I love to talk about, and I’m not a stick figure – I thought it would be great to tell women to just be themselves, and be confident.”
Jen also talks candidly about the highs and lows she has experienced in her rise to fame and her plans for the future, which includes moving in with her boyfriend Jake Wall, also a model, in the year to come.
Born in Holmesville, New South Wales, Australia, the 5’10″ beauty now resides in Sydney. Hawkins was crowned Miss Universe in 2004.
She’s spent most of her career down under, working as a model, and a television presenter. Hawkins was one of the participants in the fourth season of Australia’s “Dancing with the Stars” and has done other television and movie cameo roles.
She turned down a previous offer to pose nude for a men’s magazine.
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