Nightly News   |  August 02, 2011

Helen Mirren voted ‘best body’

Helen Mirren, 66, came in first in a poll of 2,000 men and women who were asked to name the best celebrity body. NBC's Brian Williams reports.

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BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor: And a lot of people consider this next story a way of saying "take that" to all the waifs and rail-thin models who are usually featured and celebrated in women's magazines and fashion publications. In a poll of 2,000 men and women who were asked to name the best body, Helen Mirren came in first, and for good reason. And keep in mind here, she is 66 years old and she finished on the list above Elle MacPherson , J.Lo , Pippa Middleton and Kate Winslet , among others. Mirren won an Academy Award for portraying the queen, but the similarities end there. She posed nude in a bathtub as recently as a year ago, and her husband says his wife is bold