It's Nude Catherine Zeta-Jones

KOMPAS.com - She may have flashed her flesh in the name of acting on a few occasions. But now Catherine Zeta-Jones has taken a leap of faith, by posing naked for an American woman's magazine in her raciest photoshoot to date.

In the pictures the actress puts talk of her shrinking frame to bed as she confidently reveals a toned, but curvy, figure while lounging across the sheets and smouldering into the camera.

And the 40-year-old star, who is currently appearing in Broadway show A Little Night Music in New York, proves to the world she proud of her body as she reaches middle age.

In fact, she reveals, nudity is just not an issue for her.

When it was time for the nude portion of the shoot, the mother of two promptly dropped her robe for Allure magazine.

She then said: 'That's when your dancing days and being in theatre pay off.

'When you're doing a quick change, you don't give a shit who sees you.'

However, while Zeta-Jones may be no shrinking violet, she revealed in an interview earlier this year how she is having to cover up more since moving to New York.

The Welsh actress told U.S. chat show host David Letterman that she has had to stop running around her garden naked after moving from the privacy of Bermuda to bustling New York.

She told Letterman how she used to frolic nude at the sprawling Bermuda mansion where she lived with husband Michael Douglas, 65, and their children.

But these days her al fresco fun has ended since the family moved to the Big Apple last year.

In the interview with Allure she also revealed her plans for the future with her family, saying she would love to live on a boat and sail around the world. 'I wouldn't be surprised if [we do] that.'