Stars who love to strip!

Cate Blanchett
Curvy Cate, 35, is so comfortable with her body that she claims she has no qualms with showing off what she has to offer. Although she is still waiting for her first nude scenes, the Australian actress happily admits she is open to offers. 'I'm not uptight about my body. We all have the same body parts. We all have sex in the nude, so what should we care about taking our clothes off for a sex scene in a movie?' She continues 'As an actress, you leave yourself far more naked emotionally than you ever can get physically.'

Eva Mendes
The 30-year-old Cuban stunner is so happy to go nude in front of the camera that she even strolls round set in the buff. After baring her breasts during gritty cop drama Training Day, Mendes admitted she had been parading about nude off camera as well as on it. 'When I accept to do scenes where I appear naked, it's part of my craft, it's part of playing a character - and amazingly, in real life men and women do appear nude from time to time!' she says. 'When we were shooting the love scene in Training Day, I spent several days nude on the set. It felt perfectly normal. It's only in American films that women keep their underwear on when they're making love.'

Keira Knightley
The 19-year old Pirates of the Caribbean star bared her breasts as rebellious private schoolgirl Frankie Almond-Smith in British film The Hole. Despite not treating her male fans to any nudity since, she has refused to rule it out. 'I don't have a problem with nudity in films. I'm not saying that I'd strip off at every opportunity and run around screaming,' she says. 'Sometimes it can be very beautiful and it gets a point across in a very powerful way. But I don't think I'd feel particularly comfortable spreading my legs and wearing a very small bikini for a lads' mag.' She adds: 'In Hollywood you have to be strong and confident about your body shape.'

Charlize Theron
Despite stripping in eight of her films, the South African beauty says she will only take her clothes off if she is comfortable with the director. 'I always have it in my clause that if I see the film and I don't think it's appropriate or if I feel somebody is trying to take advantage of me, I can pull it. I like having that trust with the director.' Charlize, 29, first bared all in 2 Days In The Valley. Speaking of what made her take the role in the 1996 flick, she said: 'I was aware of the nudity the first time I read the script, and it never bothered me. It didn't feel like, 'Hey cool, let's just put some sex in the script!'