She isn’t actually hot, but she is a bloody good actress, and she plays the part of a hot woman very convincingly. Indeed, she has been doing it for almost it whole career. (I speak as someone who saw her Cressida in '68, when, arguably, she actually was hot.)
[I concede that some may not find this answer sufficiently ridiculous, but it is, I submit, thoroughly paranoid.]
Ah, you mean the woman born as Ilyena Vasilievna Mironov? Born the week after the Trinity Test? The day after Truman informed Stalin? Born in London, to a Russian noble father and an “English” “mother”? Just a coincidence, indeed.
She is a doppelgänger android that eats pineal glands for breakfast and then retreats to her rejuvenation chamber, where a thousand Tibetan monks direct their Chi to waylay astral travelers whose five part souls she integrates into an azurite monkey statue named “Sparky.” The statue’s hobbies include baking and snowboarding.
Contrary to the official story, Dame Helen was not honored by the Queen for her acting abilities. She was actually recognized for her secret contributions to the Royal Academy of Gerontology in its experiments to extend lifespan.