Dame Helen Mirren may be lukewarm on most aspects of Kim Kardashian's life, but her butt is not one of them.

“I’m not into the Kardashians, it's a phenomenon I just don’t find interesting," Mirren told the Sunday Telegraph Magazine. "But—and this is the big word: B-U-T-T—it’s wonderful that you’re allowed to have a butt nowadays.”

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Mirren also credits Jennifer Lopez for being a pioneer in the butt (and thigh) acceptance movement, among the many other women whose assets have helped change beauty standards by putting themselves out there. Somewhere, Nicki Minaj is waiting for her well-deserved shoutout.

“When I was growing up, it was thought to be unbelievably sluttish to even have a bra strap showing. Everything was about women conforming," Mirren recalls. "I love shameless women. Shameless and proud!”

These shameless women, "raise their middle fingers to this epithet of ‘slut’. They wear what they want to wear, behave as they want to behave."

The way Mirren puts it, shame seems pretty boring.

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