ACTRESS Kate Winslet has joined a host of other Hollywood stars for next year's new look Pirelli calendar.

Traditionally known for being full of tanned, pouting, naked young women, the publication has taken a new tact for 2017.

It features seasoned, successful celebrities in a bid to celebrate so-called real women.

The stars featured range from 41-year-old Kate, who lives in West Wittering, to Helen Mirren, 71, in what is being presented as a "feminist triumph".

Photographer Peter Lindbergh, who is world famous for his cinematic images, said the idea behind the photos was to create a calendar "not around perfect bodies, but on sensitivity and emotion, stripping down to the very soul of the sitters, who thus become more nude than naked."

He said: "In a time when women are represented in the media and everywhere else, as ambassadors of perfection and youth, I thought it was important to remind everyone that there is a different beauty, more real and truthful and not manipulated by commercial or any other interests, a beauty which speaks about individuality, courage to be yourself and your own private sensibility."

The calendar's makers have proudly claimed that this year's images have not been re-touched.

Kate describes Peter as being "truly interested" in capturing women as they "really are".

She said: "[He is interested in] seeing their age, seeing the lines, the veins on the backs of the hands, their little crow's feet. Absolutely everything," according to a national newspaper.

The Titanic actress apparently insisted her ageing hands appear in the shot.

There are more than 40 images of internationally renowned actresses and models in the calendar including Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Uma Thurman, and Robin Wright.

Peter picked those who had influenced his life and shot more than 30,000 photos between May and June in Berlin, Los Angeles, New York, London and France in studios, on street corners and on open air sets.

He picked fast food joints, run-down hotels in downtown Los Angeles, Times Square in New York as well as roof tops there and in London, the Sophienstraße theatre in Berlin and the beach in Le Touquet, France.

Factfile

WORLD famous contemporary photographer Peter Lindbergh is the only one ever to be asked to produce the Pirelli calendar for the third time.

The German arts also shot the calendar of 1996 in the El Mirage desert in California, and the 2002 publication at the studios of Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles. He also helped to jointly produce the calendar in 2014.

Only about 2,000 copies of the Pirelli calendar, produced by the Italian tyre company, have been printed and are strictly reserved for the company’s key customers and celebrities.

Although copies sometimes make their way onto sites like eBay for around £800. Visit pirellicalendar.com.