Former Bond girl Ekland is on a mission

so effectively into size 8 hipster jeans, wear diamond cuffs on her ears and boast a tattoo of three roses blooming across her impressively flat, tanned stomach.

She also knows how to laugh at herself.

“After I had the tattoo done for my 70th birthday, I put a picture of it on Instagram, and someone said: ‘Is that Tequila?’”

We meet primarily to talk about Britt’s face, in particular when she dented her own lovely grille.

On a recent episode of ITV’s Loose Women, Britt confessed that having cosmetic procedures when she was in her fifties was the worst thing that she ever did.

“It destroyed my looks and ruined my face. It was the biggest mistake of my life. When I look at photographs of myself before I had it done, I looked very good. I can see that now, but I couldn’t see it at the time.”

Britt had just turned 52 in 1994 when she made an appointment to have her lips “plumped” by a Paris- based doctor.

“I wanted my lips to puff out a bit, but it turned out to be a disaster.”

Instead of the moderate treatment she expected, the doctor made multiple injections all around the rim of her lips with Articol, which he said was a “new dental material”.

To her horror, Britt discovered that her engorged trout pout was almost impossible to reverse.

“I looked like a pie where the crust comes up,” she says, making crimping movements with her fingers.

“I got criticised in the media, something that is always worse for a woman.

“Mickey Rourke and Sly Stallone look like something out of a horror movie, but no one gives a damn about them. Instead, they were saying how bad I was, how vain I was. Why had I done it? Blah, blah, blah.”

For the past 20 years, Britt has undergone “excruciatingly painful” corticosteroid injections in a bid to “melt” the Articol.

She still looks lovely, even if the botched procedures have left a slight, eldritch cast over the lower half of her face. It is a mistake she doesn’t want other women to make.

“I have friends who say: ‘I am going to have a bit of filler there and a bit of filler there’ and I say: ‘Please, don’t.’

“I’m not totally against plastic surgery. If it is done right, it can be amazing, uplifting. Sharon Stone, Christie Brinkley, Jane Fonda? All beyond unbelievable. But they are women with millions and millions in the bank.

“The average woman with a normal income is not going to get what they get. It just will not happen.”

Britt starred in more than 200 films, including Get Carter, The Wicker Man, The Night They Raided Minsky’s and Bond movie The Man With The Golden Gun in which she played Mary Goodnight opposite Roger Moore. – Daily Mail