What I look so good at 74 … Jane Seymour reveals powder that she has for breakfast, her slimming secrets and beauty trick that she would never do that the doctors say they have struck 15 years.

She is observed from far away the decades of endless weight loss rages under her famous rivals-union, with something of a self-satisfied smile.

Because Jane Seymour – who was born at the age of 74 in the post -war ration era – has neither had nor the desire to experiment with something that resembles a ‘trend’ diet.

And yet she is still exactly the same size and weight as 52 years ago – size 8 and 8th – when she was next to a bond – girl next Roger Moore In life and let it die.

Her tricks for maintaining her age-conserving flexible figure trust titanium self-discipline.

From exercising in a metal cage – called the ‘Truestretch’, it is said that the maximum flexibility helps and looks like something of the dungeon of a Sado -Masochist – not eating up to 16 hours a day, Jane’s willpower is clearly as solid as her abdominal muscles.

These are especially impressive when you consider that they, but also in her eighth decade, she has also worn four children – twins among them.

So what, I wonder, when she speaks to me from her house in Malibu, after all these years of torturing self -control, she thinks of all those cheerful celebrities who now reach a figure as lean as Hare by giving nothing more difficult than giving herself an injection – and microdosen with Mounjaro?

‘I don’t criticize anyone for everything they want to do. But I have no reason or need, nor did I want to do anything to do something like that, “she says.

Semaglutide Weight loss Jabs are clearly not tucked away in Jane’s fridge. So what the hell is?

She insists that she denies herself otherwise, but then admits that she does not touch food until noon.

“I don’t try to eat in the morning. I start with black coffee with black coffee. I will also have a lot of water and special vitamin powder and collagen powder that I will put and drink in water. ‘

And that is until 1 p.m. – which Jane is regularly at 5 am to bring the newest series of her hit detective show Harry Wild – brings discipline to a whole new level.

Jane effectively follows the 16: 8 diet, fasting for 16 hours of the day and compressing all her food in just eight, a program that is advocated by many experts as the key to good health.

This is the theme that comes to the fore if Jane continues to describe her regime: in a world where everyone can be slim thanks to fat Jabs, she is instead in the pursuit of that always unclean and ambitious target – youthfulness, inside and outside.

Indeed, as the own literary editor Sandra Parsons of the Mail wrote last week, new scientific tests with measuring powerful biomarkers of chronic inflammation and aging can determine the biological age of your body. By tweaks to her lifestyle – including a form of fasting, which means that your body regenerates cells more efficiently when you eat – she could keep herself 20 ‘on the inside’, at the age of 61.

Although Jane has never taken such a test, she tells me: “My ordinary doctor has told me that health I am perhaps 15 years younger than I actually am,” which would make her around 59.

And so, with that in mind, the lunch time is when she says she eats ‘a huge meal’.

Jane’s definition of ‘Massif’ may not be everyone’s ‘huge’.

‘I usually have shrimp or salmon with a little olive oil and ginger, and I will have lettuce and greens from my garden, while I renovate everything organically.

‘My favorite is cucumber salad that I make with Persian cucumbers and rice wine vinegar.

“From time to time I have some lean chicken,” she adds, “but I don’t weigh. I just look at it to see if it’s how much I want to eat.

‘I almost never eat red meat unless someone serves it at home and I stay away from fishing that is larger than a salmon.

‘If I want a carbohydrate, it is probably lentils or couscous. Or a really good pasta – fresh pasta or a very good quality Italian brand. ‘

For dessert, Jane will usually eat raspberries, blueberries or strawberries – “we grow a lot from them in the garden” – although it is rumor that in the rare cases they eat Maltesers, she limits them to only four at the same time.

“No, not true,” she laughs. ‘But I love a piece of Lindt 70 percent pure chocolate. It is also very good for you because it is full of antioxidants. ‘

Evening meals are often skipped: “I’m just quite happy with a very light snack, or nothing at all.”

Snacks include pistachio nuts and almonds – and if she is really desperate on something that is a bit nothing else, [appease] My desire for crispy, salty things, I will really, very thin, very thin, they dry off, sprinkle a little sea salt and olive oil on top and fry them very carefully in the oven, so they don’t burn. That’s my idea of [crisps]But healthy. ‘

Alcohol is minimal in the same way: “I hardly drink, but when I have alcohol, I just have a very small amount – usually a glass of wine, but certainly not every day and when I am filming, not at all.”

It all means that she looks extraordinary on the outside and also has the vitality to work constantly.

Indeed, the Dr. Quinn, the actress of the medicine woman once said that despite the fact that I was’ pregnant with twins and pre-eclampsia … I have never had a sick day in my life. They will have to pull me on a stretcher if they want to get rid of me. ‘

Earlier this year she also looked breathtaking when she ran the catwalk during the New York Fashion Week for the first time – just a few days before her 74th birthday – in a sexy, sleeveless mini dress.

Her Instagram account reveals enviable images to her 400,000 followers in the same way: doing ballet plates in a low-cut blue swimming suit in her garden and confidently show her cleavage while she talks with her followers at the back of a taxi.

And just as her food discipline starts from the moment she wakes up, so does her training regime after a good night’s sleep.

“I let myself sleep for eight hours,” she says. “When I film or work, I literally set up my alarm as soon as I know that I have to get up and make sure that I am in bed to sleep at least eight hours earlier.”

As soon as she is aware, she has previously admitted that she is following the advice of a dance teacher to wiggle my whole body from left to right as a fish. It makes the difference. Then I will stretch in a hot shower, that really helps. ‘

Peloton -practitioners are a non -go – bad for the posture, she said, because of that curved position – but reformer Pilates is very in.

Practicing on a moving bed with different belts, springs and weights for resistance, it has been part of her routine for decades.

Planks are also preferred – forearms on the ground, foot hip width apart, core pulled as tightly as it can wear.

‘And for the back of my arms, I will turn my back to a table or counter and use my body weight to go up and down. Sometimes I just lean against a handrail and press you while I stand. ‘

Nothing that she does, holds them, needs a gym (although a reform bed could put you back from £ 3,000).

And everything is combined with endless walking on the sandy beaches near her house, and with the help of one of those elastic [resistance] Bands that I take with me that I also go with and place it around my legs to edit my inner and outer thighs’.

“I don’t call that big training,” she adds. “I call it awake my body and try to get it moving. I train carefully because I don’t want hip or knee replacements that many of my friends have. ‘

Jane, daughter of a midwife who grew up in Merton Park, South London, has perhaps lived in California for many years, but still retains a certain no-nonsense Britishness. Fillers are a no go, just like Botox.

‘I tried Botox a few times and I just thought it doesn’t work for me. I have nothing against someone who does it and it is a great product if I didn’t want my face to move. But I am an actress and I paid high to move my face.

‘A million years ago I did that [have surgery] Under my eyes, but I wouldn’t do that again, “she says. “I have a muscle – it’s not a bag – under my eye and I have just learned to live with it.”

She once said that if someone wanted to look younger, it is ‘super easy’: turn on a wig, it pulls your hairline up and, hey-presto, a natural ‘raised’ face.

Lines on a face are a sign, she adds, “from a good life. But sometimes I look in the mirror and go: “ARRGH!” And then I realize that there is nothing more beautiful in a person than someone who is happy. ‘

The four times married to Jane is certainly happy with her current partner, musician John Zambetti, 75, which she met on a blind date at the age of 73.

“Being loving and loved certainly helps,” she says.

There is clearly a singing for their relationship – she recently told Cosmopolitan Magazine that “Sex is now more great and passionate than everything I ever remember because it is built on trust, love and experience.”

Words, clearly, who come from the heart because her four men, she once noted, left her all for other women.

Her first marriage at the age of 20 with theater director Michael Attenborough (son of Richard) ended after two years, while her second to Geoffrey Planer, the older brother of the Young Ones star, Nigel Planer, lasted barely a year.

Her closest businessman David Flynn produced two children – Katherine, now 43, and Sean, 39 – but ended in a disaster when Flynn lost her fortune, so that she was left in debt to be around £ 6.7 million.

Saving the title role in the HIT 1993 series Dr. Quinn, the medicine woman saved her, she later noticed, from ‘Dust and Homeless’.

Her fourth marriage to actor and director James Keach produced twin boys John and Kristopher, now 29, although that also ended in 2015 after 22 years, when she discovered that he was playing cheating.

It is remarkable that Jane succeeded in staying friends with all four exes.

Has a forgiving nature perhaps contributed to her less hardened, more juvenile face?

“I think life with gratitude and in the present … you feel good about yourself,” she says, and adds: “Things happen to everyone. You go through it and you continue and you learn from it. And I actually appreciate all the changes that happened in my life. ‘

But during all those changes it is really extraordinary that Jane has remained almost completely the same – long -haired, shiny and, resolute, that perfect size 8.

Harry Wild Season 4 is now out and available for streaming on Acorn TV, Amazon and Apple.