Audrina Patridge: 18 year old nude photos were meant to be artistic

[ingi]

Audrina Patridge Blogs: Nude Photos Were Meant To Be 'Artistic'


As more racy pics surface, the 'Hills' star posts defense in her MySpace blog.

By Chris Harris

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Not even 24 hours after topless and fully nude photos of Audrina Patridge taken nearly five years ago surfaced online, and just hours after four more equally saucy shots of her began circulating, the "Hills" star took to MySpace, to defend the racy snaps and to impart some wisdom to her young fans.
"I intended them to be artistic and not in any way provocative," Patridge wrote in a blog posted to her MySpace Celebrity page. "I was naive, overly trusting of people and inexperienced. I thought that to be a model you had to be comfortable in front of the camera."
The photos — taken not long after Patridge's high school graduation and well before her gig on "The Hills" — feature the brunette completely topless, sporting a pink plaid schoolgirl skirt. Others depict her nude in a bathtub, surrounded by candles, wearing an orange cowboy hat. There are several others of her frolicking naked in an infinity pool. Patridge had sent the photos to Playboy for consideration.
In her blog post, Patridge confessed that she'd once dreamed of becoming a model, but trusted the wrong people. "I'm not ashamed of these photos, but I don't want my young fans to think they have to do what I did," Patridge wrote. "I hope people can learn from my inexperience."
The blog post is similar to the statement Patridge released yesterday to TMZ.com. "I took these photos years ago, when I was just out of high school and beginning to model," she told the site. "I was young and very trusting of others, and I didn't know to protect myself. It is a lesson learned, for myself, and hopefully for the young girls who look up to me."

[southernbelle]

"I took these photos years ago, when I was just out of high school and beginning to model,"

Did she ever do any credible, respectable modeling work, or is she just another girl who believes the soft core porn photographers that tell her she's pretty enough to be a model?

[FierceKiten]

If you remove your clothes, pose provacative shots, hand them to a complete stranger in hopes of making it big, in what way are these artistic?

Dumbass, something tells me she knew exactly what she was doing when she decided to do it.

[Just Kill Me]

Yes, meant to be artistic, aren't they always.
That's why I only work with my own people, film and/or memory cards... no one will ever have copies of my stuff unless it came from me. Fucking morons.

[suede]

Uh yeeeeeeeeeeah and I have a bridge for you to buy in Brooklyn

[NicoleWasHere]

She's from the Hills. She's just another white trash, attention whore wannabe. Not to mention she's ugly as all Hell.

Pretty sad when you can make Heidi Montag look classy AND pretty at the same time.

[mistify]

I think she is pretty.

[sputnik]

oh yeah, those are really 'artistic'

[nycgirl]

yeah, that shit is so artistic it should be in a museum or something

[celeb_2006]

Why does she feel the need, in these times, to "defend" her pictures? Like I said before women are becoming famous and "role models" for doing explicit sex tapes nowadays, so nude photos are a dime a dozen. In fact something like 99 percent of celebupukes in hollyweird have posed nude early in their careers in order to "pay their dues." Yup, all these actresses nowadays people fawn over for being classic beauties, elegant, and all that jazz have all posed nude in this sleazy, sleazy industry.

So really who gives a flying f**k over something so relatively harmless nowadays?

[sparkly]

The least she could do is be honest about the photos. There's no need to justify why she posed topless, she did it, and I don't think people really care.

[ingi]

Photographer Speaks: The Real Reason Audrina Patridge Posed Topless

By Christi Hall
Mar 27, 2008

So what is the real story behind those racy photos of MTV reality series "The Hills" star Audrina Patridge? Who leaked the photos and whose idea was it for the would be actress to strip down and pose in the buff? In Touch Weekly notes that a slew of provocative photographs hit right as the series premiered this week and they threatened to hurt Audrina Patridge's image on the show as a good girl.
Photographer Speaks on Audrina Patridge (Image: Wenn)
But that might not be such a bad thing. Although Audrina, 22, denies she was behind the leak, posting a message on her blog that the photos were released without her consent, insiders say she’s not so innocent. “She has always wanted to be that sexy girl,” an old friend tells In Touch.

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“She used to work at Hooters before she moved to LA. Her mom found out and made her quit.” She certainly is the sexy girl on the show now. When the story first hit about the photos (the link is safe but it will follow through to the in the buff pictures) many believe that Audrina was the one behind the leak.

On her MySpace page, Audrina says the photos – in which she poses in a Catholic schoolgirl skirt, and in a bathtub wearing nothing but a cowboy hat, among other setups – were “taken when I was just out of high school and beginning to model. I intended them to be artistic and not in any was provocative.” She says, adding that although she’s “not ashamed” of the pics, she was “naïve, overly trusting of people and inexperienced” when they were shot.

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Although Audrina says on her blog that the photo shoot was five years ago, in 2003, Amber Slade, the photographer who did the session, tells In Touch that it was in 2005. And she adds that Audrina was anything but naïve during the shoot.

“She was the one who approached me about doing the glamour shots,” Slade tell In Touch. “It was completely her idea. She was determined to go ahead with it, even though she was warned to wait and see how her modeling career went before doing topless stuff National Ledger - Photographer Speaks: The Real Reason Audrina Patridge Posed Topless

[Sweetie]

I think she's pretty too. Her body looks great!

[NicoleWasHere]

I won't believe any excuses anyone tries to dish out for her. She wanted a few extra bucks and wanted to flash her bean bag boobies to the world.

[ingi]

Audrina worked at HOOTERS!!