Jane Seymour beauty secrets: 'I had a view of my body'

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'I had a view of my body'

7 May 2007

"NO BOTOX," Jane Seymour says. "No facelifts. No obsessive running. No private trainers." So how is it that the 56-year-old actress is still a stunner? Over tea at a Los Angeles hotel, Seymour gazes thoughtfully - her right eye is brown and her left eye green - and seems to change the subject.

"A number of years ago I nearly died," she says, explaining that it all began with a simple case of bronchitis contracted while she was in Spain. "I was given an antibiotic. They missed and it went into the vein. I went into anaphylactic shock. Cortisone and adrenaline administered immediately is the only way you survive.

"I saw the white light," she recalls. "One minute I had a view of my body, and the next minute I was in my body and I couldn't control it. I left my body, and I remember even now that you take nothing with you except how you feel about what you left behind. What was I going to leave behind? I would have left behind children, people I loved and my work. Perhaps I would have left behind this idea that I made a difference.

"So when I was given the gift of coming back into my body, I vowed that I would not waste a single moment of my time," the actress says. "So, if you think that I'm a little bit busy, it's because I'm a great believer in putting my inspiration, my energy, my ideas out there."

It certainly seems to suit her. With her long, flowing chestnut hair, a gorgeous, cream-coloured dress and a ring with a diamond the size of a small boulder, she looks decades younger than her actual age.

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[Faygo Kid]

1. I think I had a view of her body, too. While I was asleep.

She was one of Mom's favorites, in "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman." Mom died in 2003, and I'm glad she enjoyed that show. Plus, she was in "Somewhere In Time," with Christopher Reeve and the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island. Ultimate chick flick, but Christopher Reeve was indeed a super man, and the Grand? Well, look for yourself: http://www.grandhotel.com/index.html

It's beyond beautiful in the Straits of Mackinac.

[Der Blaue Engel]

2. I think the prevailing scientific explanation for "out of body" experiences

is simple dissociation.

I haven't heard anything that leads me to believe otherwise. (And I have experience with dissociation...a view of the body from outside describes it well.)

[Peregrine Took]

3. My husband has OBE's during a good acupuncure session. He can see himself

below from a view up by the ceiling.