Keira Knightley bikini photo. Picture the scene. A 40-something magazine editor-in-chief, who eats little and exercises lots, despite two small children and her busy career, is in a meeting with her coven of fashion and beauty editors to discuss possible cover stories for the summer issue.
‘I know!’ she shouts. ‘What about: “How to get a bikini body in 45 minutes flat!” ’That conversation actually took place and I imagine it is happening now, in glossy magazine HQs the world over.
Women’s magazines have wrestled the annual holiday from its old function as a time when we could relax and let go and turned it into yet another opportunity for us to get into shape and to better ourselves. Or die trying.
Exposed: Keira Knightley in a rare appearance in a bikini
But as summer approaches and women become more and more anxious about exposing in public bits of flesh that their husbands hardly ever see, it seems the more coy among us have a new poster girl for remaining covered up: Keira Knightley.