Italian actress Monica Bellucci has bared all for a Vanity Fair cover at the age of 46,posing with her newborn child. The mother of two appears sleek and elegant on the latest Italian edition of the magazine cradling her five month old daughter Leonie,reported Daily Mail. The shoot is to promote a new book named after 'The Passion of the Christ' star,which is a collection of her photos from the last twenty years. "Behind some of those photos there are some very sad moments in my life. I appear to be satisfied but I was really in pieces," she said. When asked how she would feel about being photographed now,she said,"Like a ripe pear,Perfectly ripe and mature. Very sweet and succulent. A kind of state of grace." Speaking of the nude photographs in the book,whose proceeds are going towards two charities Bellucci supports,an association for the parents of child cancer victims and a French charity which helps women in trouble,she said,"I chose them myself. I didn't want modelling shots and publicity ones. I wanted to show the body's primordial expressiveness." "I have never had the body of a model,I am tall but not that tall,I'm curvaceous but have never felt the desire to diet. Posing for a photographer or acting in the cinema can only be done if you are not afraid of discovering who you are," she said. Bellucci,who has two daughters with her French actor husband Vincent Cassel,Deva and Leonie,adds that the book was "an old idea,but one that I'd been resisting." This is the third time that she has been on the cover of Italian Vanity Fair - earlier this year before giving birth she posed naked with her pregnancy bump and she did a similar shoot six years ago.
