Emmanuelle uncensored

SHE was once the object of millions of male fantasies.

Today the woman whose gorgeous young body was coveted the world over adjusts her grey tunic top — she dresses purely for comfort — and announces, “I think I must be invisible to men now. Getting old is a bummer but you have got to learn to grow old gracefully. You could smile your sexiest smile and stand on your head but it wouldn’t make any difference, you would stay invisible to most of them anyway.”

These are hardly words you expect to hear from the star of the world’s most famous erotic movie. Yet, time marches on and Sylvia Kristel, always Emmanuelle even after all these years, is nothing if not a realist. Still, she pauses and her humorous green eyes open wide with surprise when I ask her how it feels to be turning 60 next year. “Oh, will I be? Somehow I still seem to be back in 2009,” she laughs.