Dannii Minogue reveals she stripped off for Playboy to pay her debts
By
Ben Todd
Dannii Minogue has revealed how she was forced to pose nude for Playboy to pay off her crippling debts.
The X Factor judge, 38, stripped off for the front page cover shoot in 1995 after the breakdown of her marriage to actor Julian McMahon.
She owed more than £150,000 and was too proud to turn to her older sister Kylie for help.
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'My parents didn't want me to do it. My dad was saying, "Doing this is forever - you can never, ever change it," she said during an emotional interview with Piers Morgan.
'Kylie knew why I was doing it. I could have asked her for the money, but it wasn't in my nature.
'I never wanted to admit the trouble I was in. I should have been looking at my finances.'
She insisted that she had no regrets about posing naked - but would not disclose how much she was paid.
'It had to be a lot to look at my parents' faces and see the anguish in my dad's eyes,' she added.
'I don't regret it, but I feel relieved that people know why I did it - it's a huge weight off my shoulders.
No regrets:
Dannii Minogue said she felt 'liberated' by posing for Playboy in 1995
'It was actually fun and I did feel liberated. I looked at the pictures and thought, "I look all right!"
'The magazine was the biggest selling title they had ever had and they had to reprint.
'My girlfriends went out to buy it and told me I looked beautiful. It then felt like a celebration of me.'
Dannii made the revelations during an emotional interview with Piers Morgan to be screened this weekend.
Earlier guests Cilla Black and opera singer
Katherine Jenkins have also dissolved in tears while discussing deeply personal stories from their past.
Cilla, 66, became emotional as she told Morgan of the death of her premature baby daughter Ellen, 34 years ago, who died two hours after being born.
Next up was opera star Katherine, 29, who found it upsetting recounting the death of her father from cancer and the time when she was the victim of an attempted rape.
Dannii begins to cry as she recalls sister Kylie's breast cancer battle in 2005 - and the moment she arrived back at the family home in Australia after being told of her pop star sister's plight.
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She said: 'All I wanted to do was get inside the door of the family home and see my gorgeous sister and hug her and it was like trying to get through all of these barriers.
'It took a long while to understand all of that was there because everybody loves Kylie and they just wanted to know, ‘Is she OK?’ But as a family member…it made everything more difficult.'
Despite 41-year-old Kylie’s recovery, Dannii says the family remain cautious because she has not had the five-year all-clear check yet.
'Well, there’s the all-clear and there’s the all-clear. The proper one is the five-year all-clear and we’re not there yet.'
She was also emotional as she discussed the break-up with McMahon, who went on to star in Nip-Tuck, was doomed from the start.
'He was a wild guy, he liked having fun, being a bit crazy and goofy and we enjoyed each other's friends,' she said.
'And for me, I thought that's all you want out of a relationship.
'I really wish I could see what some of those other people saw, that, "this isn't going to work."
'We're very different, but I felt like a failure and I hate that.'
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