Marie Helvin reveals her secrets to being body positive at 71 as she sets the pulse racing in daring lingerie shoot

Marie Helvin has revealed her secret to being body positive at 71 after her latest lingerie campaign.

The supermodel was recently announced as the new face of Bluebella lingerie’s campaign as she set pulses racing during the sexy shoot.

Speaking about how she achieves her toned physique, the American star appeared on Loose Women on Monday, where she spoke candidly about how she stays confident about her body.

She said: ‘It’s my job so I have to be confident, I have no choice. When I’m not doing the work I’m not doing, I support myself this way.

‘For me, modeling lingerie is the same as modeling swimwear, so it doesn’t phase me at all.’

Revealing how she stays in such incredible shape, Marie explained: ‘Honestly, there are certain tricks I do as a model and the main one is that I cut out all sugar 10 days before the shoot.

The supermodel was recently announced as the new face of the Bluebella lingerie campaign as she wowed in the sexy shoot

‘I have a terrible sweet tooth so no more Kit Kats or Mars Bars for 10 days and it’s incredible how your skin tightens up a bit. It’s good for the camera.’

Host Ruth Langsford asked the star: “Do you like being seen as an inspirational woman?” as Marie replied that she doesn’t see herself as such.

‘No, but I like women to look at it and think, ‘oh, she looks good, I can look good too’, because what I do is achievable for everyone.

‘It just takes discipline. That’s really true, working in the gym has to be regular, you have to do it constantly. I’m really looking forward to it because I think I’m getting high on the endorphins.”

Marie also gave an update on her health after being diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago, just before her 70th birthday.

Speaking about her diagnosis, Marie explained that the lump seemed to appear out of nowhere.

She explained, “I was always checking myself, and it seemed like it came out of nowhere. One week he wasn’t there and the next week he was there.

‘They caught it early, it was stage 1, but I still had to have a mastectomy, but they were able to save my skin and my nipple, so they removed everything behind that and replaced it with an implant.’

Speaking about how she achieves her toned physique, the American star appeared on Loose Women on Monday, where she spoke candidly about how she stays confident about her body.

Revealing how she stays in such incredible shape, Marie explained: ‘Honestly there are certain tricks I do as a model and the main one is that I cut out all sugar 10 days before the shoot’

Marie added that she doesn’t think she’s inspiring, but hopes other women look at her and think they can achieve her body too

Marie also gave an update on her health after being diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago, just before her 70th birthday

While Marie has now made the all clear, she explained that she has been put on a five-year treatment plan, which is also taking its toll.

‘I have everything clear, but now I am struggling with my treatment, I have a treatment that will last 5 years and I have just finished my first year.

‘The three drugs they use here mimic the symptoms of menopause. So it’s like I’m going through menopause again.

‘I sleep the way I want, I can’t sleep, I wake up with night sweats.’

About her breast cancer diagnosis, Marie said in an interview with the Daily Mail in December 2022: ‘I had a vision, an idea of ​​myself, I think, about how fit and healthy I was.’

‘As a model, my body was my instrument and I always took care of it. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, I exercise every day, so I guess that made me think that something like that couldn’t happen to me because I didn’t fit the profile.

‘Now I know what a load of nonsense that is. It made me realize that appearances can be deceiving.’

‘Before the operation I decided to be strong. “I knew I had to get myself in the best shape possible to get through it,” she said.

‘But now sometimes I just sit in bed and cry for no reason. Even after everything, there’s a part of me that can’t believe it happened. No one can explain to me why that was the case. It’s just one of those things.’

Marie, the ex-wife of photographer David Bailey, was photographed on a Hawaiian island on September 14, 1990