My Confidence Is Just A Mask For Insecurity

Miriam Margolyes tells Woman’s Weekly about her anxieties and the lessons she’s learnt over the years

- Hayley Minn

Miriam Margolyes comes across as boldly confident. She’s known for being chatty, outspoken and unafraid to voice her opinion.

But the 79-year-old actress has now revealed that, beneath the surface, she’s very insecure.

She tells Woman’s Weekly, ‘I seem to be somebody of enormous self-confidence, but that is merely masking an anxiety.

‘I used to care a lot about my body, but I’ve been looking at old photographs of myself and I was gorgeous, I have no doubt about that.’

She adds, ‘Not in my body, my body was always floppy and absurd – but my face was gorgeous.

‘And I wish I’d known that because it would have given me more confidence. I had none. I wasn’t sexually confident. I didn’t feel I was attractive, and I was enormously attractive.’