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Keira bares all...again (but this time it's for Chanel)

AS she would be the first to admit, Keira Knightley is not exactly famous for her hour-glass figure.

But her latest role - which sees her posing virtually naked to advertise a perfume - makes her look subtly different.

Despite the presence of a carefully-placed bowler hat, the 22-year-old actress appears to be just that tiny bit curvier.

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Keira Knightley in the new Coco Mademoiselle adverts

It's certainly a different image from that presented in such hit films as Pride And Prejudice and the Pirates Of The Caribbean series.

Ever since she appeared in a sports bra as a 17-year-old in Bend It Like Beckham, the waiflike actress has done nothing to disguise her lack of cleavage.

She once spoke her dislike of her chest, saying: "I don't have any t***, so I can't show cleavage."

That's not always something the Hollywood publicity machine has been happy about.

While the British posters for her 2004 film King Arthur displayed her natural boyish look, the American ones were a different story.

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Keira with Scarlett Johansson and designer Tom Ford pose for the front cover of Vanity Fair last year

"Those things certainly weren't mine," she told a U.S. magazine.

'We had an interesting discussion when they said, "We want to make them slightly larger and you'll get approvalî and I was like, 'OK, fine. I honestly don't give a s***'"

The actress has said in the past that she is happy to strip off for a role. Talking about nudity in films, she said: "I have certain tools. One of them is my body."

Even so, she once requested a body double for a scene in which she had to show her bottom, and this new advert, for Chanel's Coco Mademoiselle, keeps her derriere firmly out of sight.

Miss Knightley is thought to have signed a one-year contract worth more than £500,000 to be the face of the scent.

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