Sharon Stone strips NAKED for Harper's Bazaar

Sharon Stone strips NAKED for Harper's Bazaar as she admits using fillers and opens up about stroke

The stunning actress has revealed her secret beauty tips and her incredible recovery following a stroke

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Sharon Stone stripped off for the shoot

Stunning actress Sharon Stone has revealed all as she strips completely naked in a jaw-dropping new cover shoot for Harper's Bazaar .
The Basic Instinct star poses in a series of sultry shots, showing off her incredible figure and flawless complexion as she's snapped in black and white in each.
Speaking in the September issue of Harper's Bazaar , Sharon opened up about her devastating 2001 stroke and the long recovery she had to endure - admitting she now uses fillers instead of plastic surgery, having started shortly after the stroke caused damage to her face.
Sharon was in intensive care for nine days, and it took another two years to learn to walk and talk again - with her even suffering a stutter for long afterwards.

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Sharon looks incredible in the shoot

Sharon began using fillers for her face after suffering the stroke, and prefers them to plastic surgery.
"It's so common now for people to use fillers, it's almost like a beauty treatment," she told the mag.
"It's like you have mascara and a filler. And it's a far better alternative than having your face cut apart and ending up looking like you got sucked into a wind tunnel."
Recalling her horror after being hospitalised back in 2001, Sharon said: "When I came to, the doctor was leaning over me. I said, 'Am I dying?' And he said, 'You're bleeding into your brain,'"
She went on: "I said, 'I should call my mom,' and he said, 'You're right. You could lose the ability to speak soon.'"

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The star showed off her amazing figure

Eventually diagnosed with a ruptured vertebral artery, the actress said: "I was hemorrhaging so much that my brain had been pushed into the front of my face."
Surgeons eventually repaired the artery with 22 platinum coils.
"It took two years for my body just to absorb all the internal bleeding I had," she added. "It almost feels like my entire DNA changed. My brain isn't sitting where it used to, my body type changed, and even my food allergies are different."
But she admitted: "I became more emotionally intelligent. I chose to work very hard to open up other parts of my mind. Now I'm stronger. And I can be abrasively direct. That scares people, but I think that's not my problem."

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Michael Douglas with Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct

While the blonde beauty looks incredible to us, she actually sees her own bum as looking a whole lot different.
"I'm aware that my ass looks like a bag of flapjacks," she joked. "But I'm not trying to be the best-looking broad in the world."
The star split from her second husband, journalist Phil Bronstein, during her recovery from her stroke, eventually losing custody of their adopted then-eight-year-old son Roan to him.
She adopted Laird, 10, in 2005 and Quinn, nine, in 2006, while Roan, 15, reportedly visits her often