She has also worked occasionally as a model in television and print campaigns to promote Gap denim, Diet Coke, Absolut Vodka and Lux shampoo. Publications such as Esquire and People Magazine have repeatedly included her in their annual rankings of the world’s sexiest and most beautiful women. He wasn’t pushy, he let me come to him.” She has a paternal half-sister, actress Samantha Beckinsale, but they have never had regular contact. I found it really depressing that we weren’t making camp fires and everyone was doing grown-up stuff.” “I loathed being a teenager.” She had a nervous breakdown and developed anorexia at the age of fifteen and underwent Freudian psychoanalysis for four years. I was burning out and I knew I had to make a decision.” Beckinsale decided at a young age that she wanted to be an actress: “I grew up immersed in film.
