Elizabeth Hurley, 60, closed out 2025 in a miniscule mob-wife coded bikini in a beach photo shared on December 28.The British actress also shared one of the best bikini photo-taking secrets she learned during her first photoshoot. Hurley spent Christmas this year with boyfriend Billy Ray Cyrus in matching red holiday onesies and festive headbands.
Elizabeth Hurley knows that capturing the perfect bikini shot is about more than finding a flattering swimsuit. The 60-year-old swimwear veteran has been sharing her favorite modeling secrets with fans all year, and she closed out 2025 with one of her favorites. Hurley revealed the ultimate bikini photo hack she learned during her first photoshoot while posing in a micro mob wife-coded chain bikini on Sunday.
Just days after ringing in her first Christmas with boyfriend Billy Ray Cyrus in matching festive onesies, Hurley was dreaming of warm weather as she shared a photo of herself at the beach on December 28. The Austin Powers alum stripped down to a Y2K-coded cheetah print bikini from her Elizabeth Hurley beach line, showing off her abs in the plunging triangle top and matching G-string bottoms. The animal print suit complemented its print with gold hardware, thanks to gold chains creating a halterneck and string design on her bikini top. Hurley’s bikini bottoms also featured gold chain accents holding her bikini bottoms together.
Elizabeth Hurley in a cheetah print chain bikini on December 28.
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“Life’s a beach,” the Royals actress wrote, revealing a “vital” photographing trick she’d learned from “the extraordinary Steven Meisel,” who photographed her for her first American Vogue cover “in a bikini, of course.” Hurley, who appeared in an orange and red sequined gown for the May 1998 issue cover, posed in a plunging red balconette-style bikini trimmed with white accents and white rings.
Elizabeth Hurley in 1998 at the Dorchester, the year she got her ‘Vogue’ cover.
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Elizabeth Hurley attends the Attitude Awards 2025 at The Roundhouse on October 8.
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Hurley revealed, “Meisel taught me how vital backlighting was for a flattering beach pic,” explaining that she ascribes to this wisdom “to this day.” The model demonstrated Meisel’s swimsuit philosophy in action, showing off her sunkissed blonde-highlighted brown hair as she posed against a coconut tree. She showed off her signature smoky eyeshadow, black eyeliner, and nude lips, adding some extra shine with a pair of hoop earrings.