Kate Beckinsale Wears Panties For Women's Health

Daaaaamn, Kate Beckinsale!

Your body is RIDIC at your age! We love it!

It takes guts to straight up wear leather panties on the cover of a magazine, let alone for Women's Health!

Luckily, WH decided to sit her down and ask her some questions, too!

Here's what they asked:

On her fight scene with Jessica Biel in her upcoming film Total Recall:

“It’s not like a naked, porno, mud-wrestling-in-a-bar sort of fight—it’s a real fight.”

On the differences between fighting a man and a woman:

“I did find that fighting a woman was very different from when I’ve fought men. There was a lot of ‘I didn’t hurt you, did I? Ooh, I’m sorry about that! No, it was my fault!’”

On not knowing how to run when starting to film 2003’s Underworld:

“I could run if a bear were chasing me, but I ran like a girl with my arms like this [flails arms]. The day they asked me to try a few punches, it was dismal. All I could see what despair in the stunt coordinator’s face.”

On switching from intense gym workouts to yoga-based routines:

“I’d gotten particularly sick of being photographed outside a gym doing a squat with a medicine ball.”

On being famous for her ability to kick butt on screen:

“It’s slightly strange being predominantly known for something that’s not necessarily my sensibility, but I’ve never had a plan.”

On recalling her first experience at a gym with her trainer, who had once been Arnold Schwarzengger’s workout partner:

“It was a full-on boys’ gym: ‘How much can you press? Go harder!’ That kind of thing. They use to have a garbage can between the machines so people could throw up into it and then continue working out. That just seems far too gruesome. I didn’t want to be in shape that much.”

On admitting that growing up, she avoided gym class whenever possible:

“I wasn’t particularly athletic. No one ever thought, ‘I must have Kate on my team.’”

On explaining that she never went to the gym when she was younger:

“To me, you only went to the gym if you were really weird and obsessive. No one I knew inLondonat the time ever did it.”

On the progression of her life and career:

“It all just unfolds and I think, Well, that’s who I am now.”

She is just so charming!

Plus we love how healthy she keeps — and how important it is to her!

Keep it up, Kate! Your life sounds fab!

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