HOLLYWOOD -- When she watches her thrill caper movie Steal, Natasha Henstridge feels a bit like a thief. In this film about extreme sports buffs who use their skills to rob banks in Montreal, Henstridge plays the policewoman assigned to nab the brazen thieves.

She climbs rock walls, runs down city streets in hot pursuit and has hot steamy sauna sex with Stephen Dorff, who plays the leader of the robbers.

"I was six-months pregnant when we filmed Steal, so I basically turned up for my close-ups," says Henstridge, whose second son Asher is now 18-months-old. His brother Tristan River Waite is four.

"When we filmed the rock wall scene, they hoisted me up there using a crane. All the other actors and their stunt doubles got to do the fun stuff like parachuting, skate boarding and fighting. The most extreme thing I did was hide my pregnancy."

She is most grateful for the Montreal model who was her body double for the steamy sex scenes.

"I've never looked so good in the nude," says Henstridge, who made her film debut in 1995 playing the alien Sil in Species.

Sci-fi buffs would hardly agree. In 1997, they voted Henstridge their No. 1 sexiest alien. "I can hardly wait for Liam (Waite) to see Steal. That's not how he remembered me back then."

Henstridge, 29, who married and divorced actor Damian Chapa between 1995 and 1996 has been living with Waite for the past six years.

Henstridge isn't exactly devastated that she is basically an observer in Steal.

She gets to do her share of extreme stunts and martial arts on her TV series She Spies, where she plays con artist Cassie McBain.

"We're going to start filming a new set of 20 episodes of She Spies in July.

"I'm really grateful the series came along when it did because it allows me to work here in L.A. I used to take Tristan all over the world with me, but it would be almost impossible to do a lot of location work with two young boys. Asher is getting just old enough that the boys are becoming friends."

She had hoped her second child would be a girl, but says she's not sure she'll keep trying for a daughter.

"I'm not from the school of thought that you keep having boys until you have your girl. I just may be finished with the whole pregnancy thing. I have a perfect family now with Liam and the boys.Neither is marriage in the cards just yet: "I don't want to jinx things that are working so well."

Henstridge will do her mother and daughter thing on May 11 on the Food Network. She and her mother are cooking up the traditional Newfoundland casserole meal known as a Jig.

"My mom flew down here (from Fort McMurray) and we filmed in my house here," says Henstridge, who was born in Springdale, Nfld. and raised in Fort McMurray until she was 14, when she set out on her own to become an international model.

Filming the cooking show was a far cry from her stint on the celebrity version of Fear Factor last year where she had monster trucks drive over her."I'm a huge fan of reality TV I'm sorry to confess, so when Fear Factor approached me to do a charity show, I jumped at the chance.

"I'm just sorry I got cancelled out so quickly. I'd have loved to swim with the snakes and tried the bungee jumping.

"My life's been pretty extreme, so I'm usually up for almost anything."Henstridge will be seen later this year in The Whole Ten Yards, the sequel to her hitman comedy The Whole Nine Yards with Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry.


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