British actress Kate Beckinsale has declared that she won’t go nude in any of her film roles. A lot of people are going to hate me for saying this, but I really appreciate it when actresses say they won’t do nude scenes. I’m no prude, for me it’s more a matter of equality. The ratio of naked women to naked men onscreen must be 25 to 1 or something. Let’s at least have a little parity here. Frankly if I were a man I’d feel a little insulted: the MPAA seems to find your equipment a lot more offensive to the senses than a woman’s comparable parts. Just a hint of the manly goods sends movie ratings sky high. And I don’t mean “ratings” in the sense of reviews. Kate Beckinsale’s reasons for keeping her panties on are a lot more logical than my equality-based nonsense: she was traumatized as a young girl when her actress mother went nude and kids taunted her. So she’s promised she won’t do the same to her nine-year-old daughter.

Kate Beckinsale has vowed never to appear naked in a movie, after she was bullied at school when her actress mum stripped on TV. The episode traumatised Beckinsale - whose mother is veteran British TV star Judy Loe - and she is determined not to subject her nine-year-old daughter Lily to the same humiliation. She tells AOL Movies, “My mum was an actress, and she did a nude scene on television when I was about 9 or 10, and the crisis I had when everyone came to school the next day and told me they’d seen my mother naked just makes me kind of, you know … I’m not in a big rush to do that to my child. “She’s embarrassed enough that I’m an actress at all, without me being naked as well.”

[From Contact Music]

Looking out for the mental health/social well-being of your child is a pretty good reason to keep your clothes on. Men just don’t seem to face anywhere near the same amount of pressure. I love the excuse that sometimes a role just calls for nudity, and it has to be done. Alright then, but why is it always calling just for naked women? Hmm, something to ponder of dinner tonight. Reese Witherspoon recently made the same comments as Kate, and has pledge that she’ll keep her clothes on. I totally support this move. Of course if at any point the gentlemen would like to contribute to some equality, I’ll support that too.

Here’s Kate Beckinsale at the Los Angeles Premiere of “Snow Angels” on February 28th, 2008. Images thanks to PR Photos.

Most of you thought I was wrong when I first said that those Kristin Davis nude photos couldn’t be her due to their dubious origin. I thought that the woman looked younger than her, but many of you pointed out that the hairline and features were exactly the same and that the photos could have been taken years ago.

It turns out that they’re pictures from over 15 years ago and that a creepy ex boyfriend of Kristin’s sold them to someone else. Then they passed hands again a couple of times until they ended up online. These are just stills and there is no sex tape coming:

The photos, we’re told, were snapped in 1992 by an ex-boyfriend. That’s right, they are just photos — no sex tape, fellas! According to reports, 20 photos are making the rounds, but actually it’s not quite 20.

We’re told the ex-boyfriend was pissed at Kristin and then sold the photos to a third party. Classy, huh?

The third party got involved in a business venture with another guy and we’re told that guy pilfered the pics and they ended up online.

[From TMZ]

There is no way I’m ever letting my husband take naked photos of me for this reason. It doesn’t matter how much you trust the person or how in love you are, don’t tape or photograph anything you don’t want people to see.

Kristin was 27 when these photos were taken and she looks much younger than that. She’s a gorgeous woman and most of us have done what she’s doing (except for Pink), we just don’t all have photos of it.

Davis’ rep has denied that these photos are her and says that there is no sex tape. That seems to be at least partially true.

Update: All photos have been removed due to a cease and desist received. We are sorry for any distress they may have caused.

You’ve probably seen these pictures by now since they came out last night and all, but here are the Diablo Cody “scandalous” photos that aren’t much more than topless pics. She comes across like she’s fun and doesn’t take herself too seriously, and considering what she must have been up to these photos aren’t that big of a deal.

Diablo blogged that she doesn’t really care that people are publishing these old photos again since she’s the one who put them online in the first place. She titled this entry VIVA TRASH!

Hey! Did you guys hear about the “nude” (except not really) pics I voluntarily posted on the Internet myself? What a tantalizing “scoop!” Seriously, I thought nudity was only a scandal if it the photos were leaked by some crumb-bum rat or vengeful ex. I personally put my vag out there with pride, ladies and gents. And you bet your ass I’d do it again if the Beef Council would cough up the proper endorsement money.

Bitches are lucky I don’t get naked now. I’m built for comfort these days. However, tempt me long enough and I just might drop ‘em…

As I’ve said in the past, they can dress me up, they can give me awards, they can coach me on the right responses, and they can sand the callouses off my giant fucking feet, but I will always be me. And I will never be ashamed.

No secrets, ever. (Well, hardly any.) Just like I promised.

[From Cody Diablo’s blog on MySpace]

I love how she says she’s “built for comfort!” Cody worked for a year as an exotic dancer in Minneapolis, an experience she used to write her memoir Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper. I read the excerpt available on Amazon.com, and now I want to read the entire book. It was funny, quirky, and well written. She describes how she ditched Chicago at the age of 24 to move to Minneapolis for a guy she met online. She starts off with a boring office job and gets antsy, at which point I assume she starts working as a stripper but that’s where the excerpt cut off.

Cody, 29, just took home the Oscar for best screenwriting for Juno, a coming of age story about a pregnant teenager.

She is currently in an undisclosed location trying to catch some sleep after the Oscars and has asked people to try and guess through her MySpace blog where she is.

Thanks to Egotastic and Drunken Stepfather for these pics. She seems like a lot of fun.

Oscar winning actress Marion Cotillard appeared nude multiple times in the sexually explicit 2002 French film Une affaire privée. She is seen in a sexy dance with other women, in several sex scenes (some of which are violent: warning there was a scene that was mildly disturbing), nude around the house, putting on lotion, you get the point. In fact there are almost 5 minutes of nude scenes in the clip below. It’s not quite soft porn, but it’s pretty close, and the gorgeous actress is not afraid of taking it off or of appearing without makeup on screen. Cotillard is 32 although she looks much younger, and was 27 when this film came out. She won the Oscar on Sunday for best actress for her portrayal of tragic French singer Édith Piaf in La Vie En Rose.

According to Fandago, the film is about a seedy private detective investigating the disappearance of a student. Cotillard seems to play the detective’s lover. A commentor on IMDB noted that the plot is pretty complicated and hard to follow. If you know French and/or have seen this film and can provide more insight, please comment.

As someone who now lives in Europe, I can say that nudity is generally not considered titillating and that Cotillard is most likely not ashamed of her work in this film. She shouldn’t be, either. Hopefully her Oscar win will propel her to new levels of international success.

This clip is not for under-18 and not for work.

Update: Many of our French readers say this is a well known film featuring top actors and that these type of scenes are in almost every French film:

I can say.. that’s absolutely normal in French films, since decades. In France, no one is fazed by such appearances, I even get the feeling it doesn’t feel like a real movie if someone doesn’t run around naked, do a sex scene, a rape scene, a lotion scene or all of the above. I know, ’cause I’m half French.

[Comment by Anna]

And reader Bellatrix confirms that this is a top film, and offers a plot summary. Cotillard plays the best friend of the woman who is missing:

I am SURE this is not something Cotillard will now be ashamed of. Nudity is a part of art in Europe, especially in French movies.

This was not some cheap movie that now needs to be hidden. Its cast is a rather important one (Thierry Lhermitte, Samuel Le Bihan, Frédéric Diefenthal, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Clovis Cornillac : big French names and very well known actors)

The movie deals with the story of Rachel’s disappearing. Her mother hires a private investigator, François Manéri, to find out what has happened to her.

He stumbles upon a very complex case. A very private business (affaire, in French, has several meanings : business deal/real life scenario in a very general sense/intimate relationship)… Which is echoed throughout the title.

François (the guy played by the very, very famous Thierry Lhermitte in the first scene of this video) will thus meet all those close to Rachel to try to find a trace of her.

There is her best friend played by Cotillard (Clarisse in the movie), Rachel’s ex-boyfriend, her stepfather and her neighbours. They all seem to be linked together (and to Rachel) in very odd and complicated ways. The more he investigates, the stranger the story becomes.

In the end, one starts to wonder who Rachel really was… I won’t spoil it though!

[Comment by Bellatrix]

NY Magazine has released five more photos from Lindsay Lohan’s nude tribute to Marilyn Monroe’s last photo shoot, a chance to give back to her fans that Lohan considered an “honor” and her mother called “artistic.” Lohan is a Marilyn Monroe fan, owns an apartment she once lived in, and has a painting that depicts the blonde bombshell in her last moments, with a bottle of pills spilled nearby. Lohan called Marilyn’s death “tragic” in her accompanying interview. She then made a reference to Heath Ledger’s death, saying “it’s also tragic what just recently happened to someone else.” and adding that “they are both prime examples of what this industry can do to someone.” As for whether hardened addict Lohan will also meet a similar fate, she said “I sure as hell wouldn’t let it happen to me.”

Lohan has been caught driving drunk several times including a high speed car chase in which several guys claim she took them hostage while she swerved and sped, causing her passengers and the person she was chasing to fear for their lives. She may not die from a pill overdose, but the statistics are stacking up against her if she continues to drink and drive. Let’s hope Lindsay gets a driver - who takes her somewhere far away.

These photos are getting a lot of attention, and that’s sure to please Lohan despite the fact that many experts say it’s not a good career move. Many of you noted in the comments that she’s no Marilyn, and at 15 years younger than Marilyn she somehow looks less natural and young than the screen legend did just six weeks before she died.

Lohan:

Marilyn:

Lindsay Lohan’s stage mom, who isn’t content to have thrust just one of her offspring into the deep murky waters of Hollywood without a life preserver, has predictably spoken out about her daughter’s grimy imitation of Marilyn Monroe in a series of topless photos. She calls it art, and sees no problem with her daughter’s nude poses. She also says that Lindsay’s 14 year-old sister, Alli, was on set at the time, and that Lindsay was thankful that someone asked her to bare it all:

“It was very tastefully done,” Dina tells PEOPLE of the photos, a recreation of Marilyn Monroe’s legendary 1962 photo shoot shot by Bert Stern. “I respect the photographer as an artist, so I look at them artistically. For him to call Lindsay 46 years later and to say can you recreate these photos is an honor. I looked at it as art, and as Lindsay doing a character. So I don’t look at them like it’s Playboy; she was being a character. So if you look at it that way, you can look at it as a mother.”

And Dina adds that had the photos been inappropriate, Lindsay’s sister Ali would not have visited the set. “Trust me,” Dina tells PEOPLE, “I wouldn’t have sent my 14-year-old to the set [if the shoot was in bad taste]. And obviously Lindsay wouldn’t do anything with her sister there, that was risqué.”

Lindsay, 21, also viewed the shoot as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Dina tells PEOPLE.

“Lindsay was very excited when she first got the phone call,” says Dina, 45. “Of course we talked about how they would be done. Lindsay said, ‘Mommy, I’m never going to get this opportunity to do it again.’ She was very thankful she was asked.”

[From People.com]

You can see where they’re coming from, since the picture were done by the same photographer that shot Marilyn’s last drunken photo series just six weeks before she died. It’s truly an honor to bare your breasts in memory of Monroe, and you should see it as a way to give back to the fans who aren’t content just seeing your shaved mons in an occasional paparazzi photo.

MSNBC’s The Scoop column quotes some industry insiders who see Lohan’s nude photo shoot as a piss poor career move, with a director saying “her stock falls when she starts doing any project for any magazine.” MSNC’s Sexploration columnist says that “21-year-old Lohan’s attempt to inhabit the 36-year-old (and vastly more complicated) Monroe’s eroticism seems pale, shallow, out of context,” and “[Her]… spread in New York magazine seems more sad commentary on our current bankrupt culture than it does on Lohan.”

It may have been “art,” but it was still nearly full-frontal nudity. There’s nothing wrong with that, and Sienna Miller has posed topless for magazines too, but it doesn’t seem like it helps your career if you want to be taken seriously as an actress. But don’t listen to what the experts have to say, go by what your mom tells you. She’s expertly guided you this far.

Lindsay Lohan didn’t hesitate to pose topless for a photo shoot with photographer Bert Stern, who also shot the iconic photos of Marilyn Monroe in a hotel room just six weeks before she died in an apparent pill overdose. Called “The Last Sitting,” Marilyn’s photos show then then 36-year-old bombshell drunk on champagne and lounging around, with just some sheer scarves as cover. Lohan used the same see-through material as Marilyn in her photo shoot, saying that the decision to pose nearly-nude wasn’t hard. “I didn’t have to put much thought into it. I mean, Bert Stern? Doing a Marilyn shoot? When is that ever going to come up? It’s really an honor.”

Lohan owns one of Marilyn Monroe’s apartments, and said she has “a lot of Marilyn Stuff,” such as a big painting of Monroe that sounds like it depicts her suicide scene, which was a gift. Lohan says of her painting that “It’s eerie… because it’s this picture of her, and it’s kind of cartoony, and there’s a big bottle of pills next to her, and they’ve fallen over.”

The 21-year-old actress better known for her DUIs and for courting the paparazzi also alluded to Heath Ledger’s death in the same breath as Marilyn’s suicide, calling both “tragic”"

Lohan called Monroe’s suicide “tragic,” and then added, elliptically, “You know, it’s also tragic what just recently happened to someone else.” I asked whether she was referring to Heath Ledger. She nodded: “They are both prime examples of what this industry can do to someone.” Why some and not others, I asked, since it has often seemed that the thrice-rehabbed Lohan might meet a similar fate. Lohan replied with a flicker of annoyance: “I don’t know. I’m not them. But I sure as hell wouldn’t let it happen to me.” Still, one wonders whether Lohan’s participation in this project, given all the spooky parallels, isn’t the photographic equivalent of moving into a haunted house. (Which, in fact, she may have already done.)

[From NY Magazine]

Here are the photos of a woman who is all too willing to talk about “what this industry can do,” without actually doing the work of showing up for her job. At least she’ll still take it off for photo shoots. Lohan tried to rationalize the shoot, saying that Monroe was giving back to the public with the last photo shoot that Lindsay is mimicking “She’s saying, ‘Look, you’ve taken a lot from me, so why don’t I give it to you myself.’ She’s taking control back.” I wonder if Lohan thought she was “taking control back” when she flashed her shaved kitty on several occasions. Now she has the benefit of a famed photographer to help use exhibitionism to give back to the public while remaining in control.

Thanks to NYMag.com for these photos of Lindsay.

Lindsay Lohan

Marilyn Monroe

Is there any limit on when you need to stop appearing nude in public? Or should you never, ever do it? Pamela Anderson at 40 is surely testing the limits of socially acceptable nudity. Always being one to test the boundaries, Pammy is planning on performing at the Crazy Horse cabaret in Paris, famed for its nude revues.

Asked whether Anderson will bare it all in the show, Crazy Horse managing director Andree Deissenberg said: “We’re going to have to talk to Pamela about that.”

“The Crazy Horse has always been about, ‘You think you see everything, (but) you see nothing,”‘ she added. “It’s going to be a sexy, beautiful, creative performance — that’s as far as I can go.”

[From Fox news]

There is no word on whether Pamela will actually be appearing nude in the review. I’m not even convinced there is still a market for her pink lady bits anymore. The details that have been released are that she will be performing to a song, ‘Harley Davidson’, on a Harley Davidson motorbike. Will she get to keep the bike?

Pamela has previously said that she would be performing in Europe to ‘fulfill the exhibitionist in me.’ That statement was made on her official blog, which has been inaccessible ever since rumors of her abortion surfaced.

Pammy might have been concerned that a stripper role could damage her acting career, but after seeing Blonde and Blonder I don’t think it’s an issue.

Pammy performs at the Crazy Horse on February 13th and 14th. Take your girlfriend, it’ll make a great Valentine’s Day surprise.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Pamela Anderson is shown at LAX nightclub on New Year’s Eve, thanks to PRPhotos.

I stole that headline directly from the Associated Press. I admit it, because it was way too funny, and too perfect to paraphrase. NYPD Blue is in trouble again, for some bare ass-edness. Whose nude buttocks are so pricey you ask? Actress Charlotte Ross. Yeah, not Dennis Franz, so I really don’t see what the problem was. You’re probably sitting there asking yourself, “Wait, NYPD Blue is still on the air?” No, no it’s not. This was for an episode that aired on February 25th, 2003. Yes your math is correct, that was nearly five years ago. The FCC must have one insane work backlog. I know they talk about the inefficiency of the government, but damn. Late last night they issued a massive fine against ABC and its affiliates for showing some bootay.

The commission late Friday issued a proposed fine totaling almost $1.4 million against 50-some ABC affiliates for airing a Feb. 25, 2003, episode of NYPD Blue that included “adult female nudity,” specifically a “small portion of one side of her breasts” and a side view of her buttocks, the FCC said, and another scene of her naked from the back. Rather than the fleeting nudity and profanity decisions currently being challenged in court, the FCC said the scene “dwelled” on the nudity and was lingering,” as well as “shocking and titillating.”

[From Broadcasting & Cable]

My God, both lingering and titillating? I can’t believe riots didn’t break out in the street! What’s next, teenagers dancing? Men and women holding hands in the street? The FCC is either totally ridiculous or absolutely essential depending on your views on decency vs. censorship. Which is a debate I’m not even going to get into here because it’s a Saturday and my brain only runs on 30 percent of its normal power on the weekend. What I am going to do is make fun of the FCC’s reasons. Because they’re utterly hysterical. And who couldn’t use a nice mid-weekend chuckle?

The FCC defines indecent content as depicting or describing “sexual or excretory activities” in a “patently offensive way.” ABC argued that “the buttocks are not a sexual organ.” But the agency rejected that, saying buttocks qualifies as both sexual and excretory.

[From First Coast News]

Wow, the buttocks really are a multifaceted body part, aren’t they? I wonder how much they would have been fined if the butt were not excretory? Does anything excretory count? For example I have a crazy sinus infection, and have been blowing some bizarre things out of my nose. Is my nose thus excretory? Are noses therefore indecent? If so we need to talk about something I saw on the channel four news last night. Brian Williams was indecent all over the place.

Picture note by Jaybird: Here’s Charlotte Ross’ ad for PETA. Her buns look downright inoffensive to me.