KARIE'S BARE TRUTHS

WOMAN LIVES NAKED WHILE RUNNING NATURIST RESORT

- ANNABAL BAGDI Sunday Mercury Writer

A MIDLAND woman who has been holidaying naked for 25 years has told why she loves living life in the buff.

Karie Jane began holidaying nude in 2000 and now runs a naturist resort in the Canary Islands.

The 58-year-old and her ex-husband took a second home in Costa Calma, Fuerteventura, in 2001 so they could strip down as often as possible.

After their divorce in 2013, she moved into the property permanently before turning it into the BHH Naturist Resort in 2019, officially opening it the following year.

The resort is almost always fully booked, with guests even booking two years in advance.

It even featured on Channel 5's The Canary Islands with presenter Jane McDonald last year.

Karie, a former theatre producer from Derbyshire, said: "When I need to go out for something, I go as quickly as possible so I can come back home and take my clothes off.

"I know I'm living a life that's less ordinary, that's for sure.

"I've effectively been naked for the last five years besides going out in public!"

To people wanting to try naturism, she said: "I suppose it's become totally normal to me, which I forget when I'm in the company of textiles, which are people who wear clothes.

"People are much more liberated - when you're talking to a group of naturists, they seem to be more open.

"It can be a liberating experience and we don't care what labels you wear, where you come from."