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Magazine has a Bar-Code!! Newsstand Edition! Brand new copies!! ELIZABETH HURLEY IS MAXIM’S SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER COVER STAR The legendary model/actress covers Maxim’s “Hot 100” issue featuring the world’s sexiest women. “I’m covered in scratches,” Elizabeth Hurley laughs. The revelation seems in contrast with her bona fide movie star guise, which manages to radiate even through Zoom despite the sometimes-spotty WiFi in her Herefordshire, England, manor. “The minute we hang up, I’m about to go outside and attack something! I feel much more creative when I can go outside. If I’m stuck on something, I’ll go hack down a weed and then feel better.” As the owner of one of the most deliciously posh British accents in the entertainment industry, she makes even the mere idea of weeding sound positively glamorous. It’s one of her golden rules these days: For 15 minutes out of every hour, she’ll leave the desk and go breathe in the air of the “deep countryside”—her sanity saver for the past two decades—and peek over at her alpacas and grain fields. From the get-go, the “mummy, actress, model, farmer, bikini designer” (as her Instagram bio proclaims) was adamant that she didn’t want to raise her son, Damian, in London. Now 22, Damian is, to use British parlance, a chip off the old block. A model and actor with a mane of enviable hair and bone structure that echo his mum’s, he made his feature writing and directorial debut with the 2024 film Strictly Confidential. Much to the Internet’s delight, albeit with some raised eyebrows, the picture features steamy scenes between Elizabeth and her female co-star. At present, both Hurleys are finalizing financing for Damian’s next project, which Elizabeth will produce via her latest labor of love, a production company she formed earlier this year with a friend. Being by her son’s side as he finds his feet in show business brings back memories for Hurley. She enrolled in dance and drama school straight after her A-level exams and credits initial industry attention to a role in Christabel, a 1988 BBC mini-series. “It’s a character-building time when you’re young, in any job, but especially in showbiz. You get rejected all the time…even now. I totally get that it’s not for everyone. You have to have a very good attitude toward it. You can bet that if you meet anyone my age and they’re still in the business, they’re tough, because they’ve had to be.” When she tried her hand at finding fame in the United States, Hurley chalks it up to that elusive combination of luck, timing and resilience. “After rounds of auditions, visa problems and crying every night, eventually you get a break and then you just work on that,” she says. Those fateful breaks saw Hurley front and center on two of the most beloved movies of the 1990s and 2000s: as sultry secret agent Vanessa Kensington in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and as the temperature-raising leather-clad Devil in Bedazzled. ……ORDER A COPY TO KNOW MORE…… Magazine has a Bar-Code! Newsstand Edition! Brand New Copies!!