I am prudish about my body, says Carey Mulligan

London: The ‘Great Gatsby’ star Carey Mulligan, who is quite used to stripping off for the cameras, says she is quite shy about showing off her charms in everyday life.

The 27-year-old actress shed her clothes in the films including ‘And When Did You Last See Your Father?’, ‘An Education’ and ‘Shame’. "In my own life I`m very prudish about my body, or at least I have been in the past. I`m always covering myself up rather than wearing skimpy outfits. I don`t look good in very short skirts ? at least I don`t think so," she said. She said that she needed real guts to stand without any clothes in the 2011 British film "Shame" in front of co-star Michael Fassbender. "I`m often terrified about different aspects of characters I`m playing. With respect to nudity, it was vital to the character in Shame, who wasn`t supposed to be a very attractive character and needed to be emotionally naked and lost in different ways. "This is who she is ? a character who can stand fully naked in front of her brother and not feel anything. But doing the nudity for Shame was actually very liberating for me and it helped me deal with my own issues with my body," she said. PTI