Miriam Margolyes despises her “big t***” and “dropping belly”.
The ‘Harry Potter’ actress, 82, made the admission as she posed for a naked shoot for British Vogue’s annual Pride issue – using a selection of iced buns to cover her privates.
Miriam admitted: “I like my face. I think my face is kind and warm and open and smiley.
“But I hate my body. I hate big t*** (and) a drooping belly, little twisted legs. I’m not thrilled with that. But you just make the best of it. You have to. You do the best you can.”
Miriam also revealed she is going into surgery to have a stent fitted in her heart, but insisted she is not “terrified”.
She added: “When you’re young, you never think about death. You just think about your next f*** basically. I think about death a lot.
“Oh, every day, for sure. Every morning when I get up I think, ‘Hmmm, another day,’ which maybe I wasn’t expecting.”
Openly-gay Miriam also addressed how she came out to her parents, saying the admission “hurt” her mum and dad.
The actress, famed for playing Professor Sprout in the ‘Harry Potter’ franchise, came out in 1966 when homesexuality was still illegal.
She said about always being proud of her sexuality: “I never had any shame about being gay or anything really. I knew it wasn’t criminal because it was me. I couldn’t be criminal.”
Miriam – who is married to Australian historian Heather Sutherland, 80,who keeps out of the spotlight – was ¬last month rushed to hospital following a health scare, and posted a photo on Facebook of herself on a ward as she updated fans about her condition.
It turned out she had contracted a chest infection following a routine heart procedure to treat aortic stenosis – a narrowing of the aortic valve.
She told her followers: “I did survive and I am still in The Royal Brompton Hospital certainly till Sunday.
“I am growing energy but it’s still not quite me. I am putting this so you know how grateful I am for lovely messages.”
The July issue of British Vogue is available via digital download and on newsstands from Tuesday 20 June.
