Vanessa Williams, 58, shows off her slender body in a white bikini while on the beach

She first achieved fame as a beauty queen in the 1980s. And Vanessa Williams proved this Tuesday that she is still able to stun her fans with her sensational swimsuit body at the age of 58.

The Desperate Housewives alum could be seen on Instagram radiating glamour as she posed up a storm in a white bikini on the beach.

‘Are we doing bikini shots in our early 50s? Ok,’ she vamped in her caption before adding an emoji of a crashing wave. 

Smoldering sensation: Vanessa Williams proved this Tuesday that she is still able to stun her fans with her sensational swimsuit body at the age of 58

She wore her luxurious hair down and added a touch of glitz to her look with hoop earrings as she shot an enigmatic stare off into the distance. 

At the start of this month Vanessa sang The Star-Spangled Banner at the PBS Independence Day special A Capitol Fourth held on the Capitol building’s west lawn.

She also controversially performed Lift Every Voice And Sing, which has historically been known as the Black National Anthem.

The move drew some critics who regarded it as divisive to sing an anthem for one ethnic group on a holiday about the country at large.

Occasion: Vanessa sang The Star-Spangled Banner and Lift Every Voice And Sing at the PBS Independence Day special A Capitol Fourth held on the Capitol building’s west lawn

During an interview with Entertainment Studios last month promoting the special she said that the event was ‘about unity.’

Vanessa continued: ‘It’s about this amazing country that is based on democracy and realizing that we left the British to be free, but our government works because we have all those things in place.’

She added: ‘So it’s celebrating the liberty and the structure that we started as Americans which also includes all different colors that helped build this country.’ 

As far as her personal life goes Vanessa is currently on her third husband and is the proud mother of four children including Lion Babe singer Jillian Hervey.

Words and music: Last year she broke into the children’s book industry when she published Bubble Kisses with illustrations by Tara Nicole Whitaker

Last year she broke into the children’s book industry when she published Bubble Kisses with illustrations by Tara Nicole Whitaker.

She noted that ‘a lot of people had plenty of time to read it to their kids, which was wonderful’ last year and has revealed that the idea started out as a musical one.

‘It was a song, then I said: “I’m gonna do a children’s album,” and never got to it, and I finally had the time to actually turn it into a children’s book with an accompanying CD – and if you don’t have a CD player you can actually go and download it on all the streaming channels,’ she noted to Entertainment Studios.