Keira admits her love of stripping off for photos

(Daily Mail)
Updated: 2007-09-10 14:05

Vanity Fair: With Scarlett Johansson and Tom Ford

'When you're told that you have everything you wanted, even when it wasn't what you wanted, and you're not feeling great, then you feel depressed and insecure because you should be grateful,' she said.

And she added she had considered leaving the country to escape the attention and, according to the magazine, even thought about giving up acting. She has no such reservations about her new Chanel adverts, however, describing them as 'fabulous' and 'exciting'.

The campaign, for the Coco Mademoiselle fragrance, also includes a glamorous 60-second cinema commercial, shot by Atonement director Joe Wright, which features Miss Knightley slipping out of the bowler hat outfit into a crimson dress, dashing across Paris and flirting with a mysterious stranger.

The Chanel adverts are the second time she has appeared nude for a photo shoot, after the Vanity Fair cover by renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz, in which she posed alongside American actress Scarlett Johansson and designer Tom Ford.

'It made me giggle,' she said. 'It was one of the best photographers in the world and you're 20 and you go, “Why the hell not?”

'There are huge contradictions in people. And there should be. On the one hand, I was completely self-conscious about my body, on the other I love nude photographs and one way of getting over feeling inadequate is to go, “Sod it, you are getting over this.” And just do it.'

Miss Knightley, who was nominated for an Oscar in 2005 for Pride & Prejudice, has been lauded by critics for her performance in new British film Atonement, in which she stars alongside James McAvoy as an uptight society woman of the Thirties.

She admits she was happier making the film than Pirates Of The Caribbean – shot when she was still a teenager.

She explained: 'You're too young to drink in America and you're on your own, and you don't know anyone and you can't drive, so you're sitting in your hotel room and you're just watching television – maybe even a programme about how lucky you are.'

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