United Kingdom, July 20 -- Lena Headey "never felt beautiful" when she was younger.

The Game of Thrones star, 52, has opened up about her life in the spotlight and confessed she spent years feeling "uncomfortable" about her appearance and didn't feel better when she realised other people saw her as attractive.

She told The Telegraph newspaper: "When I was younger, I felt really uncomfortable. I never felt beautiful. And so when people thought of me like that, I felt a real tightness. I wondered: 'What are they expecting?'

"Because I didn't feel like that. But the joy of getting older is that it's not about being a thing for somebody else. Instead you just want to do the thing for you and for other women. Such as tell the sorts of stori...