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My bones are like glass: Why Bond girl Ursula Andress blames herself for becoming ravaged by osteoporosis
Daily Mail
October 2008
As a Bond girl, she became an iconic beauty. But as Ursula Andress reveals for the first time, she’s now ravaged by osteoporosis which could leave her crippled. What’s more, she admits it’s all her own fault…
No bones about early detection
Irish Times
November 2008
When the original Bond girl, Ursula Andress, was told she had osteoporosis, she thought there must have been some mistake. Like most people, she associated the bone-weakening disease with frail, hunched, elderly women. “As far as I was concerned, osteoporosis was not for someone like me, a former Bond girl who travelled, swam, walked miles every day and has a big garden to look after.” Now the actress is supporting a new campaign for independent women who, like her, don’t want to let osteoporosis slow them down…
Time doesn’t stop for Ursula
Daily Express
October 2008
She will be forever remembered as the Amazonian young blonde emerging out of the waves in a bikini in the early James Bond film Dr No but time stops for no one and Ursula Andress, 72, has admitted she now suffers from osteoporos…
An audience with Ursula Andress
Mature Times
October 2008
From Bond girl to osteoporosis victim…as Ursula Andress reminds Tony Watts, it’s 45 years since she memorably walked out of the sea in Doctor No. But she still has the old Hollywood charisma, and now she has a cause to champion…