Sharon Stone says she was told she wasn't sexy enough to become an on-screen star just six weeks before she landed the lead in Basic Instinct.
The actress, 63, recalled a time when her manager told her she wasn't "f**kable" before she proved him wrong by bagging a part in the 1992 erotic thriller.
Writing in her new autobiography, The Beauty of Living Twice, Sharon admitted she was "shy and introverted" at the start of her career.
Before she made a name for herself in Hollywood, the star recalled a time when her agent told her that she wouldn't be hired as she wasn't "sexy".
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