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Monica Anna Maria Bellucci is an Italian actress who played Mary Magdalene in “The Passion of Christ”.

In 2004, while pregnant with her daughter Deva, Bellucci posed nude for the Italian Vanity Fair  Magazine in protest against Italian laws that prevent the use of donor sperm. The controversial femme fatale posed again semi-nude and pregnant with her second daughter Léonie for the April 2010 issue of Italian Vanity Fair. 

Appearing in the documentary movie “The Big Question”, about the filming of “The Passion of Christ”, Monica Bellucci describes herself as an agnostic, even though she respects and is interested in all religions. “If there’s something I believe in, it’s a mysterious energy; the one that fills the oceans during tides, the one that unites nature and beings.”

In 2004, Moni8ca Bellucci topped AskMen.com’s Most Beautiful Women in the World annual list.

Photos via William McFadden