Helen Mirren Admits 'I Never Considered Myself 'Beautiful''

Dame Helen Mirren just added another accolate to her list.

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She was chosen for the cover of PEOPLE’s 2022 Beautiful Issue.

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Mirren said that she was “absolutely sort of gobstruck” to be selected.

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She confessed, “I’ve never considered myself ‘beautiful.’”

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At 76, Mirren confessed she doesn’t “like the word beauty.”

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“I think it excludes the vast majority of us who are not beautiful,” she said.

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Instead, Mirren said the beauty industry should be called the “swagger industry.”

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“I think swagger means I'm confident in myself,” she explained.

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“Most of us are not beautiful,” she added. “We have other stuff, which is just as powerful as beauty.”

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