Welcome to our Channel Gillian Anderson found it surreal to be named sexiest woman in the world almost 30 years ago Gillian Anderson thought it was surreal when she was voted the sexiest woman in the world the 56-year-old actress topped aim's reader poll almost 30 years ago when she was in her late 20s but admitted it was very strange to have attained the title in the first place she told the Guardians Saturday magazine I had a surreal experience in 1996 when I was voted world's sexiest woman by readers of Ean magazine a type of worship not far off some of the descriptions in these fantasies I'm not sure I got the sense that it was inhibiting anybody the xfile star has now written a book titled want sexual fantasies by Anonymous that is a collection of anonymous wom's sexual fantasies and admitted that she tried to be non-judgmental in the letters she received for the project by default but ended up not being shocked by anything she read she said I think we all felt that if people did feel they were writing to me knowing how open I am I'm pretty understanding and non-judgmental and I try to be as inclusive as humanly possible people might feel safer somehow that they could put anything down and I wouldn't be shocked but the Hollywood star is still convinced that as a society people in general are not as open as they possibly should be when it comes to intimate relations asked if the world is straighter than some may think she replied yes precisely which is why I don't think we can say get out more it's a bigger ation for people more Adept at it than I to talk about the degree to which things as a culture are not as open and accepting and free as we might imagine they should be in 2024