Britt Ekland
Britt Ekland
Britt Eklandis a Swedish film, stage, and television actress, and singer. She appeared in numerous films in her heyday throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including critically acclaimed roles in William Friedkin's The Night They Raided Minsky's, and the British crime film Get Carter, which established her as a movie sex symbol. She also starred in the British cult horror film The Wicker Manand appeared as a Bond girl in The Man with the Golden Gun...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth6 October 1942
CityStockholm, Sweden
CountrySweden
I used to smoke cigarettes, ten a day, but gave up when I was 28. Now my vice is several cups of coffee a day, which isn't great if you're prone to weak bones as I am, as caffeine can leach calcium.
I tried the Atkins diet in the Seventies when pregnant with my son, as I didn't want to pile on the pounds. Now, so long as I'm healthy, I don't care what my scales say.
Back then I was called Dumbo because of my ears. I was called Fatty, too. It was hurtful so I became like the class clown. I became the one who was kicked around.
As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.
Think of your pension and start saving. Like my father, I have been a spendthrift, and I regret that.
I broke my ankle ten years ago so high heels are not an option unless I'm literally going door to door for a function.
I dieted all the time in the Sixties, but we had no idea what dieting meant - we thought it meant not eating anything.
I listen to my body, I give it things it wants and I eliminate things it doesn't want.
I say I don't sleep with married men, but what I mean is that I don't sleep with happily married men.
I don't sleep with happily married men.
I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed.
I was never particularly wild, just very busy and often didn't think about what I was putting into my body. Today things are very different. I stopped smoking in my late 30s; I avoid wheat and gluten as this makes me feel bloated and sluggish; exercise regularly and bounce out of bed.
I'd rather kill myself than dress like Victoria Beckham in towering heels day after day.
I own a home in Sweden, I rent in both Los Angeles and in Britain, and I'm constantly travelling.