Helen Hunt stuns in bikini after rejecting pressures of Hollywood beauty standards

Helen Hunt precocious shared a candid instrumentality connected however Hollywood's unattainable quality standards negatively impacted her intelligence health.

Hunt, 62, looked effortlessly chill arsenic she slipped into the oversea wearing a retro-inspired bikini aft earning a coveted grant astatine the Taormina Film Festival.

The "Hacks" actress sported a vibrant yellowish bikini apical paired with greenish floral bottoms portion relaxing by the ocean.

HELEN HUNT OPENS UP ABOUT REJECTING HOLLYWOOD'S BEAUTY STANDARDS AFTER YEARS OF ‘MISERY AND SHAME’

Helen Hunt showed immoderate tegument successful Italy aft decrying Hollywood's quality standards. (Getty Images/BACKGRID)

Hunt was honored this week successful Italy with a beingness accomplishment grant astatine the Taormina Film Festival.

"It is an grant for america to invited Helen Hunt to Taormina. Her beingness represents a span betwixt large planetary cinema and the eternal quality of our land. With her elegance, multifaceted endowment and creator consistency, Helen embodies the values that our Festival wants to celebrate: passion, committedness and emotion of cinematic storytelling," Tiziana Rocca, Artistic Director of Taormina Film Festival, told Variety.

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Hunt, 62, sported a retro-inspired bikini portion swimming successful Italy. (BACKGRID)

"The Lifetime Achievement Award is simply a heartfelt and well-deserved tribute to an creator susceptible of inspiring generations of viewers and colleagues."

Additional honorees included Martin Scorsese, Michael Douglas and Catherine Deneuve.

The "Mad About You" prima revealed earlier this period that she felt "misery and shame" successful the aboriginal stages of her vocation owed to her carnal appearance. 

Helen Hunt refused to springiness into Hollywood standards of beauty. ( John Salangsang/Variety via Getty Images))

"It felt intolerable not to internalize the mode you’re expected to look," Hunt said. "And [there was] a definite magnitude of misery and shame astir not looking precisely that way."

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Hunt added, "I realized, ‘This could softly ruin your full life.' I made a decision: I’m not playing. Not gonna [let it] instrumentality up a batch of abstraction successful my mind."

The "As Good As It Gets" histrion said her attack was influenced by "The Only Diet There Is," a publication written by the spiritual person Sondra Ray.

Hunt recovered fame aft starring connected the '90s sitcom "Mad About You." (Karwai Tang/WireImage))

"What I took from it is, devour what you privation and emotion each bite, period," she said. 

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Fox News Digital's Christina Dugan Ramirez contributed to this report.