Aussie A-lister gives locals an eyeful as she flaunts her toned physique in miniscule bikini during Italian holiday
The Aussie A-lister ensured all eyes were on her taut and trim frame on Thursday when she set her sights on a refreshing dip in Umbria, Italy.
Pip, 45, had locals doing a double take when she slipped her toned body into a minuscule pink bikini to make the most of the glorious summer's day.
The P.E Nation founder was her own best advertisement as she strutted her athletic form poolside, happily hiking up her bikini bottoms for her fans on Instagram.
She made sure her roving photographer also captured her pert derrière in the carousel of pictures shared to the social media platform.
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The Ksubi creative director recently flaunted her fit figure in a sheer pink maxi skirt and a pair of nude underwear in Rome.
Pip dressed to turn heads, pairing the $140 Venroy low-rise skirt with a cropped $350 Clea fringe top to expose her taut midriff.
She finished her eye-popping look with a pair of bedazzled Miu Miu ballet flats and a slouchy black Loewe purse, as she ventured to Bar San Calisto in search of refreshments as temperatures in the Italian capital soared to 35°C .
The Sydney socialite's holiday comes three days after she bid farewell to her son Justice, 18, in San Francisco, California.
'Too many memories to share! You have been by my side from the minute you were born 18 years ago, right up until now, where I'm about to leave you in San Francisco,' Pip penned in a lengthy tribute post.
'As a parent, we give our children roots grounded in family, love and values, and we give them wings with the wind beneath them, so they can soar through life and navigate their own way,' she wrote alongside a carousel of pictures taken with her son.
Pip shared a collection of recent photos of her teenager as she wished him well.
'There will always be an invisible umbilical cord between us Justice - an intense connection and true love that runs blood deep and life long,' she continued.
'You have brought so much joy to me and everyone around you and to whoever meets you.
'It's going to bring me the greatest joy to watch you live out your basketball dreams.'
'Get out there my love, go after everything in front of you, it's all yours to take! This departure forward into your adult life has been one of the most brutal yet brilliant experiences ever!! Loving you, raising you, and learning from you is my greatest inspiration. You are the GOAT.'
Pip shares Justice with her ex and Ksubi co-founder, Dan Single.
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There are still dozens of routes to Europe through Turkey, Georgia, Serbia and other countries. In order to get to Rome, for example, a Russian tourist would have to stop over in Turkey or the UAE and switch flights. The additional costs put the trip out of the reach of most ordinary Russians, but those that do make it to Europe also face difficulties because of the sanctions, which means their bank cards don't work. However, Istanbul's Ataturk airport is brimming with currency exchanges where Russians can swap roubles for euros to sustain their visits to Europe. 'There are many Russians who support the war, and particularly the Russians who have money,' Sir William said. 'What we absolutely don't want to do is allow these Russians to enjoy the privileges and resources of Europe, while at the same time they're supporting Putin's war efforts.' 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He added, 'I also see that some countries have a self-interested motive – they want the income from Russian tourism. It's not just about visa fees; it's about money spent on hotels, shopping, tickets and so on. Russians are known to spend a lot. 'This undermines the credibility of our sanctions regime and sends a confusing message about our values.' Lifeline for dissidents Andrei Soldatov is a senior fellow with the Center for European Policy Analysis think tank and a Russian investigative journalist specialising in the activities of the Kremlin's secret services. He said the visas were valuable for dissidents and families that wanted to visit them abroad. He said, 'it is a problem which doesn't have a simple solution. These are also the countries which help people with anti-Kremlin views move out. 'To make it safe for these people one needs to hide their applications in a stream of other applications. 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Daily Mail
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Every character that my mother has built on screen comes from the fabric of her trauma - there's no question. She understood that poverty for an artist is gold, because adversity, not knowing where your next meal is going to come from, all of those elements create such a wealth of inner life. '[She understood] the humility of being in the service of something, her characters, her directors. She has never been the diva. She's always a team player.' Sophia has previously recounted meeting her husband at a small town beauty pageant. And in excerpts of her memoir Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: My Life - shared in an issue of Closer Weekly, the actress had also recounted similar sentiments of feeling a paternal fondness for her late husband. 'By that time whenever I went out it was with Carlo,' she reminisced in her autobiographical book. 'True, he was married and we had to be careful, only later would our fondness turn into love.' He helped launch her career as a sought-after star when the Italian film producer casted her in some of her first starring roles in Anna and I Dream Of Zorro. Upon meeting him, Sophia knew Carlo would be someone in her life forever. 'I was content to be lucky enough to finally have someone beside me who knew how to speak to me, who could give me advice, who supported me in the parts I chose, which is crucial when an actor is just starting out,' she said. Sophia added: 'I was trying to get ahead but without taking any false steps, and knowing that Carlo was on my side was a huge help. There was something fatherly about his presence, too, and I'd never had a real father.' 'He gave me a rootedness and stability that kept me grounded, while the world around me seemed to swirl dizzyingly, excitingly.' Two years later the couple welcomed their first child Carlo Ponti, Jr and another son, Edoardo, in 1973; their eldest is an orchestra conductor while the latter is a director whose debut film Between Strangers also starred his mother During their early years of courtship, he was still married to first wife Giuliana Fiastri. But during the summer of 1954, both Sophia and Carlo knew they were destined to be. 'It was there, while making Woman Of The River, that we finally understood we'd fallen in love. Our intimacy had turned into love,' she wrote. He had proposed marriage to Sophia in 1957, prompting for a divorce from Giuliana which was forbidden in his native country at the time. However, Carlo could not deny his strong feelings for the sex symbol and married her by proxy after obtaining annulment documents in Mexico. As a result Sophia and Carlo would have wound up on the hook for concubinage and bigamy in their native country and so they annulled their marriage in 1962. The pair eventually worked out a deal with Giuliana whereby they all moved to France and obtained citizenship there. Giuliana gave Carlo a divorce under French law in 1965, and the next year he remarried Sophia whom he stayed with until his death in 2007. Two years later the couple welcomed their first child Carlo Ponti, Jr and another son, Edoardo, in 1973; their eldest is an orchestra conductor while the latter is a director whose debut film Between Strangers also starred his mother. Sophia has four grandchildren and told Closer she regularly keeps up with them, chatting daily with her family on FaceTime during lockdown. 'My approach to life is very simple,. Enjoy all the good news that my children tell me about their lives,' shared the Marriage Italian Style star. Sophia, who lives in Geneva where she gave birth to both her sons, said: 'The beauty of my grandchildren fills me with joy although they are far away in California.' A few years ago she told the New York Times that what she enjoys about life in Switzerland is that 'It's calm. When you live in a big city like Rome or like New York, there's so many things going on and the streets and the cars. Here, it's a really very peaceful place. And then, of course, it's the center of Europe.' In the Times article however, Edoardo also revealed that his brother often complained is mother 'wasn't like the others' at school drop off, despite the star wearing jeans to be as lowkey as she could. Sophia drew international acclaim for the 1960 film Two Women which was also about the ravages of World War II in her native Italy. Her performance in the Vittorio De Sica movie made her the first person ever to earn an acting Oscar in a language other than English. However she has not appeared onscreen in a feature film since Nine, Rob Marshall's 2009 movie adaptation of a Broadway musical of the same name. Nine was based on the seminal Italian movie 8 1/2 directed by Federico Fellini whom Sophia never worked with despite the two being stars at the same time. She has kept working since Nine - she dubbed a role in Italian for the 2011 Pixar movie Cars 2 and has appeared in a short film. A decade ago she also played her own mother Romilda in the Italian miniseries My House Is Full Of Mirrors, based on a book by her sister Maria Scicolone, who once spent a decade married to Benito Mussolini's jazz pianist son Romano.
