Sharon Stone Poses Nude At 57 In B&W Photoshoot By Mark Abrahams

Sharon Stone blew the world away with her role in Basic Instinct and was nominated as Best Actress for Casino. For the last decade and a half, she's dealing with the effects of a brain hemorrhage. It occured in 2001, and lasted for nine days. It took months for Stone to regain control of her left leg, and a year for her vision to return. Now, at 57, she's ready for her next acting role in Agent X and recently posed nude for Harper's Bazaar.

"I became more emotionally intelligent. I chose to work very hard to open up other parts of my mind,” Stone said in the interview accompanying the shoot. “Now I'm stronger. And I can be abrasively direct. That scares people, but I think that's not my problem. It's like, I have brain damage; you'll just have to deal with it."

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