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WHY CELEBRITIES, MOVIE STARS AND DOWN TO EARTH WOMEN POSE NAKED? Part 1. Continues on Page 2 By Maximillien de Lafayette Brigitte Bardot: "Animals walk around naked and they have more loyalty than men. I have never been betrayed by my pets. But I have been cheated so many times by men and women who were fully clothed..." Josephine Baker: " I will strip by the name of God, if I have to feed those orphans... "
Photo: Kate Moss enjoys nudity.
WHY SOME WOMEN STRIP IN PUBLIC AND WHY STARS POSE NAKED? For one million reasons. And it has nothing to do with money, as many ingenious minds and rednecks believe or imagine. Kate Moss does not need to pose naked to make money. She appeared in full armored clothes on major glossy magazines covers. And she earns zillions, just by holding a product or looking at the camera. She does it because it is part of the fabric of the business. Almost 88% of stars and celebrities, including university professors, anchorwomen, women-wrestlers, top executives and moms posed in the nude at one time in their lives and careers for pragmatic, incomprehensible reasons, fantasy, celebrity quest, notoriety exposure, re-launching a career, antagonizing boyfriend, steering gossips, enjoying nudity, sex-mania, fortune or simply for the fun of it or taste for the risqué. Women have more tendency to go for the extremes and pose naked than men. Many female celebrities and accomplished artists see and illustrate in nudity and in confronting a camera in the nude a sign of rebellion, freedom, mutiny, an art expression or even an essential part of the femina esthetics. In 1956, Brigitte Bardot posed nude in "Et Dieu Crea La Femme" her debut in a major French film, to attract attention, to reach stardom and to steal headlines, NOT to make a living. Some stars take off their clothes, to stay in the limelight, under the spotlight or to create one. A perfect example is Brigitte Nielsen. Despite her fame and fortune, Nielsen parades topless on the beaches of the French Riviera. Madonna does it for different reasons: The Madonna's reasons and that's enough for us! Some superstars and starlets categorically refuse to pose naked. Grace Kelly, Katharine Hepburn and Audrey Hepburn are perfect examples. They would not do it for all the gold in the world.
IS IT IMMORAL TO POSE NAKED?
Is it immoral or unethical to pose nude? Many think so, including the executive committee of Miss America. Vanessa Williams was stripped from her title because Miss America Election Committee discovered that once upon a time, Williams posed naked for Playboy. She had to return her crown but, not the fat check she got from the committee. So what is the problem here? What is the critical issue? The issue? Very simple: SEX! And sex in America could be taboo for public officials, elected people, members of the judicial system, the Congress, governors, men and women of the robe, et al. Approximately 89% of political disgraces, scandals and resignations from public office were caused by a sex scandal, regardless of the ramifications and nature of the affair. And posing naked could or would constitute disgrace to many, while delighting many of us, including those hypocrites who wrapped themselves with the morality robe. Should I say, morality ropes?! And women know that. ""Men like me because I don't wear a brassiere. Women like me because I don't look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.", said Jean Harlow. Women stars who pose naked are fully aware that nudity and sex pay big time. Even cabaret and "boite" chanteuses admit that fact. Sure, talent is primordial but, showing flesh could be an enormous boost for a star's career. And nobody demonstrated this "La Verite de La Palice" better than the legendary Josephine Baker.
Photo: Josephine Baker. In Paris' thirties and early forties, Mistinguet or Mistinguette reigned as the queen of the French music hall and cabarets. She was untouchable. Until, a poor, half-way talented obscure black American entertainer from Missouri showed off half or totally naked on the Parisian cabaret stages: Josephine Baker in person, Et Voila, for the first time in her career, Mistinguette faced the most threatening move by another aspiring star. Josephine Baker was crowned by the French audience as the new queen of the French Cabaret. Not because of her talent, but, simply, because she paraded on stage wearing only a banana belt around her lower part. Yet, this outstanding woman was highly spiritual and religious. A great humanitarian and charitable woman who adopted 12 orphans from different races and nationalities. "If taking off my clothes will help me to feed my children, I will do it by the name of God..." said Josephine Baker.
Photos: From L to R: Brigitte Bardot, now and then... Roger Vadim's film" ET DIEU CREA LA FEMME" made the French actress Brigitte Bardot one of the most famous movies stars of all time. Once again, it was not her exceptional talent that propelled her fame but her nude scenes in the film. At the beginning and following the world premiere of her film debut, Bardot was looked upon as scandalous and immoral vedette. Ironically enough, 10 years later, the French government honored her by issuing a special postal stamps collection bearing her photo. And in the same year, the French president "decorated" her with "La Legion D'Honneur", France highest award and honor medal! Her photo appeared on the same special postal stamps edition of the year illustrating the glory of Louis Pasteur and Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. How do you explain this phenomenon? Brigitte Bardot the "naked and immoral actress" becomes France's woman of honor and greatness! "Animals walk around naked and they have more loyalty than men. I have never been betrayed by my pets. But I have been cheated so many times by men and women who were fully clothed..." POSING NAKED IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA OR A PAINTER IS NOT A CONTEMPORARY NOVELTY
As soon as humans learn how to draw and sculpt, the woman naked body took center stage. In ancient and contemporary books, scrolls, churches, museums, places of worship, ancient terra-cota, burial sites and temples pillars, we see deities, angels, mythological goddesses, empresses, royalty, saints, martyrs, national heroes completely naked. Venus, Astarte, Didon, "La Marseillaise", Pauline Bonaparte et al, all were depicted naked. Some illustrious artists adhered divinity to the beauty of the female body and feminine nudity. Popes, bishops and cardinals throughout the ages, collected naked paintings of women and saints. Major part of Olimpia Aldobrandini's inheritance entered the Borghese collection and included extensive works and paintings of naked women from the collections of Cardinal Salviati and Lucrezia d'Este. Correggio's nudes were and are still en vogue, and highly sought by "moral" and "religious people"! The most revered and recognizable French symbol of patriotism, revolution, freedom, liberty and equality is represented by a French woman half topless leading the crowd in their march against tyranny in the street of France. This half naked woman is known as "LA MARSEILLAISE".
Photos: Famous nude paintings by Corregio collected by the Vatican, cardinals and defenders of the Catholic faith...and remain among the most precious art collections of the Holy Seat in Rome.
RALPH LAUREN
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Photo: Madonna Naked Poster. Courtesy of MoviePoster. THE NAKED TRUTH
Photo: Marc
Quinn's sculpture of Alison Lapper. Nowadays, the overwhelming majority of movies stars, models and celebrities pose naked for one MAJOR reason. And Carol Baker explained it very candidly, when she answered a Paris Match reporter's question: "Why all of a sudden, you began to appear naked in your films?" Baker's career and Hollywood future began to decline. So she left the United States and headed to Paris, hoping to star in French movies. So, Baker so candidly told the French reporter: " I do not take my clothes off to show you my talent. I do it because this IS what your French cinema and producers need to sell their movies." In other words, she did it because she needed a job, as simple as that. So, nudity in movies catapults sales and feed box offices. World famous artist, Alison Lapper stated: "My Body Is Art" at the premiere of her show in London. "I don't feel the least bit embarrassed about everyone staring at me naked - I wouldn't have done it if I felt like that. I hope it opens their eyes." No quivers at all at the thought of millions of eyes skating over her oversized nude form? Her "nope" is so abrupt it gallops over the question. The sculpture has already caused querulous difficulties for some.
Another perspective: The full frontal nudity of Maruschka Detmars in First Name: Carmen and of Myriem Roussel in Hail Mary! was used to eroticize situations. The anticipation of sex was more arousing than the act. When we see a naked woman on screen today we can be sure that intercourse will follow. Female characters today wear costumes that invite leers, but their appeal is a banal sexiness, a prurient guise in a puritanical society. Godard filmed women naked because, like Velazquez or Weston, he appreciated the line and curve of the body. Their beauty and power transfix us because we are simply asked to gaze upon it, as in the opening scene of Contempt, when the camera lingers on Brigitte Bardot’s naked body and she invites Michel Piccoli to review her assets: "What about my ankles?
But how about ordinary women who are not movies stars, models ofrfame diggers? Why do they strip? How about school teachers and anchorwomen at respectable TV and media networks? Why do they pose nude or take off their clothes in public? What is the purpose? Not easy to answer the question. But believe it of not, they do it either for for fun and excitement, or for expressing a sexual freedom. TWO WAYS OF LIFE
NUDITY AS ART
WHAT ORDINARY FOLKS THINK! Excerpt from reader's letters sent to Marjorie Harp, an editor at "LA FEMME MAGAZINE:
EDUCATION OR RELIGION HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH STRIPPING NAKED IN PUBLIC Photo: Anchorwoman Catherine Bosley taken last year by a man in the audience at a Key West bar, Florida, USA. Dear Marjorie: It is my strong belief that members of the media should observe the highest standards of ethics since they enter our living room each single day and night. However, many of them don't give a damn about morality. And guess what? Those who break the rules of decency are almost women. One northeast Ohio news anchorwoman, Catherine Bosley is a perfect example. This woman worked as anchor for ten years at WKBN in Youngstown, Ohio. She went to a bar in Key West and paraded nude on stage in the presence of her husband who enjoyed showing off his wife completely naked. Some one in the audience took tons of pictures of her after she stripped naked on stage. The pictures remained in the vault for almost one year until all of a sudden they surfaced on the Internet. Bosley lost her job.
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Why educated women do stuff like this? Are they nuts or what? When cornered, Bosley said "It was just a spur of the moment, silly, irresponsible thing to do that I regretted a great deal the next morning." They always regret when they are caught. I noticed that almost 99% of women who did boob job love to expose their reconstructed breast. They just love it! Silly women. I used to believe that only low class and uneducated women do silly thing like this. But when I see highly educated women go wild in public, I come to one conclusion: Education or religion has nothing to do with it. Women once freed from social restrictions, they become wild not FREE! And this so-called feminine social freedom began in the sixties. And how they manifest their freedom? Strip in public. Sex was always their medium. Take it off baby, this is how you become free. Yah right! Richard Manson, Biloxi, Mississippi, USA.
MANY WOMEN DO IT JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT?! Photos of anchorwoman Catherine Bosley taken last year by a man in the audience at a Key West bar, Florida, USA.
A second letter by another reader of "LA FEMME MAGAZINE" http://www.lafemmemagazine.com SHOWING UP HER BOOBS IS OK! BUT WHY HER LOWER PART? Hello Marjorie: This is Jean-Louis Marchand from Nice, France. First, let me tell you how much I love LA FEMME MAGAZINE. You have class, ma chere, beaucoup de classe! I just love your magazine, so beautiful and fun. Okay, let me say a few words about Mrs. Bosley. She wants to show off her breast, it is fine. I have no problem with this. Here in France, in Nice, Cote D'Azur, Saint Tropez, all women sit on the sea sand topless and nobody cares. Only some Arabs from Morocco, Tunis and Algeria keep on looking at our women. As I said, I have no problem with Mrs. Bosley's boobs. But, mon Dieu, her plastic surgeon did a miserable job. They look fake, very fake. Doesn't she know that? How about her husband, didn't he look at these two bazookas? From her profile side, they look good but from the front, Oh LaLaLa! they are terrible! Another thing. Let her show off her breast, but why she strips completely? Why did she show her lower part. Did she do any job on her v...? That would be stupid. In brief, please do not make a big deal about this. It seems to me that she is having fun. Now, if her husband does not mind, why should others do? I don't understand? Sincerely, one of your fanatic fans, Jean-Louis Marchand, Nice, France.
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The legendary Louise Brooks in the thirties.
JOSEPHINE
BAKER: "I WILL STRIP BY THE NAME OF GOD"
NAKED
BRIGITTE BARDOT AND NAPOLEON BONAPARTE SIDE BY SIDE
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from L to R: #1. La Marseillaise. # 2. Princess Pauline Borghese
(1757-1822) Sister of Napoleon Bonaparte, as naked Venus, by Antonio
Canova.
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from L to R: #1. Muslim women in Afghanistan. #2. Alexandra Kerry in
Cannes.
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from L to R: #1. A model by Bill Brandt who saw the nudity of a woman
as " the beauty of romance." And the beauty was displayed as a male
possession. #2. A model at Paris Week Fashion Show, 2005. Designers
use the natural assets of a woman to display their feminine apparels
and bijouteries. Studies show that almost 98% of models gladly accept
to pose topless or completely naked if the price is right.
