Bo Derek never had any "aspirations" to be an actress and felt "uncomfortable" in the spotlight.

The 69-year-old star became a household name and was lauded as one of the world's most beautiful women when she starred as Samantha Taylor in 1979 film 10, but she insisted getting the role was just a "fluke" and she always felt like an "imposter".

Asked if it was gratifying and a burden to be talked about for her beauty, she said on the Club Random podcast: "It was none of those things. Like I say, it was just it was just a whirlwind because I had no aspirations to be in films. I had when I did '10,' it was just a fluke that I got the part and I had no agent, no manager, no nothing, no fantasies about being in the movies.

"I was just always uncomfortable with my image, being all over magazines when I walked down the street. And I always felt kind of fake and an impostor at the same time 'cuz I didn't work as an actress. Or drive a limo or whatever everybody else did to be in movies."

Bo - whose real name is Mary Cathleen Collins -recalled how people didn't understand why she stepped away from the spotlight.

She said: "It's very strange. People don't understand it. You know that expression, they would kill to do it, to be famous, to be in movies and not for some of us."

These days, the Tommy Boy star lives a quiet life in Santa Barbra with husband John Corbett and doesn't miss life in the movies.

She said: "I love retirement. I am so happy in retirement.

"I'm not missing anything. I don't miss it...

"I'm not promoting anything. I'm loving my life. I don't need to go back to work."

Bo admitted she never had children because she felt she was "not mother material" and her first husband, John Derek - who was almost 30 years her senior - didn't want more kids after having two from a previous relationship."Everyone says you're going to have kids. When I hit about 32, I thought, Uh-oh; I better start working on this and scheduling it.

"I kept waiting for my life to slow down. It never slowed down. [John] didn't want kids. He'd had two kids from a previous marriage. He was older, so he'd done it."

The more she considered the topic, the clearer the decision not to have kids became.

She said: "When I thought I wanted it, then I really started sitting down to scheduling and I thought, I'm not mother material.

"My husband certainly isn't father material. He was the most judgmental oddball.

"I think I spend more time when I decide to have a dog, a new dog, than most people do when they have a kid."