Keira Knightley posed topless for Allure's December 2012 issue, which hits newsstands Nov. 20. Between her body-baring shots, the 27-year-old Anna Karenina star wore a black sequined Chanel jacket and a silk tuxedo by Tom Ford. We chatted with Keira recently about her role in the period film, and the actress got just as candid with the magazine about her career, body image, and feminism. Here's more from Keira Knightley in Allure: 
 
 On accusations she was too skinny, and on her figure being Photoshopped : "The anorexic stuff — all of that — it's always going to have an impact, so I think it did hit pretty hard. I knew I wasn't anorexic, but maybe my body is somehow not right. They always pencil in my boobs. For a King Arthur poster, they gave me these really strange droopy tits. . . . I thought, 'Well if you're going to make me fantasy breasts, at least make perky breasts.'" 
 
 : "The anorexic stuff — all of that — it's always going to have an impact, so I think it did hit pretty hard. I knew I wasn't anorexic, but maybe my body is somehow not right. They always pencil in my boobs. For a poster, they gave me these really strange droopy tits. . . . I thought, 'Well if you're going to make me fantasy breasts, at least make perky breasts.'" On feminism : "I am a feminist, but I clearly objectify myself — so that right there is a total contradiction to feminist principles." 
 
 : "I am a feminist, but I clearly objectify myself — so that right there is a total contradiction to feminist principles." On her career: "It's very, very hard on women who get older. . . . I can say that when I'm 27, you know. Talk to me when I'm 37." 

 Knightley is intensely private about her personal life, but she did make a passing mention of her fiancé, James Righton, keyboardist for the Klaxons. She said she hasn't the faintest idea how she's going to handle the publicity whenever they decide to wed: "Maybe I'll be permanently engaged!" She also said, "We're total opposites." Music is Righton's life, but "I know nothing about it," said Knightley. Here, she's wearing a silk jacket and pants by Tom Ford. 

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 Keira Knightley sees nothing wrong with doing on-screen nudity — so long as there are limitations. 
 
 “I’m quite rigorous about what gets exposed,” the English actress said in Allure’s December issue, on the cover of which she posed topless with only a Chanel sequin tulle jacket slung over shoulders. “No bottom half! I don’t mind exposing my t*ts because they’re so small — people really aren’t that interested!” 
 
 But Knightley, 27 — who first shot to fame in such films as Bend It Like Beckham and the Pirates of the Caribbean movies — said she learned to draw that line. “I think it’s much easier as you get older,” she explained. “You can say, ‘No.’ ‘Yes.’ ‘No.'” 
 
 About five years ago, however, Knightley’s body was the subject of controversy. Critics blasted her for her pin-thin physique, as the media speculated that she was struggling with an eating disorder. 
 
 “I knew I wasn’t anorexic,” the star of the upcoming Anna Karenina said. “But maybe my body is somehow not right. Or my face is not right. Or the way I speak is not right. When you’re going through a period where you’re really getting a lot of criticism, you go, ‘Maybe all this is right!’ You just kind of want to hide it all.” 
 
 Perhaps such scrutiny has led Knightley to keep her private life private — especially regarding her fiancé, keyboardist for the Klaxons. Knightley said she fears the prying publicity that will fall on her when she finally decides to ti the knot. “Maybe I’ll be permanently engaged!” she said. 
 
 Despite the hardships of the spotlight, Knightley said she wouldn’t abandon acting. “There’s clearly something in me that goes, ‘No, actually, I know I’ve got something,'” she explained. And she said she is humbled by her good fortune in Hollywood. “The people I’ve worked with! Having a successful career! It’s absolutely, totally extraordinary, and I’m incredibly lucky.” 
 
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– Keira Knightley goes topless in the December issue of Allure, and addresses all those rumors that she's anorexic: On nudity in her film roles: "I'm quite rigorous about what gets exposed. No bottom half! I don't mind exposing my tits because they're so small—people really aren't that interested!" On those small breasts: “They always pencil in my boobs. I was only angry when they were really droopy. For King Arthur, for a poster, they gave me these really strange droopy tits," she says. "I thought, well if you’re going to make me fantasy breasts, at least make perky breasts." On body image: "The anorexic stuff—all of that—it's always going to have an impact, so I think it did hit pretty hard," she says. "I knew I wasn't anorexic. But maybe my body is somehow not right. Or my face is not right. Or the way I speak is not right. When you're going through a period where you're really getting a lot of criticism, you go, Maybe all this is right! You just kind of want to hide it all." On feminism: "I am a feminist, but I clearly objectify myself—so that right there is a total contradiction to feminist principles." On her fiancé: "We're total opposites," she says of herself and musician James Righton. She's not sure how to handle the publicity of a wedding, joking, "Maybe I'll be permanently engaged!" Click to see two topless photos from the shoot.