Australian actress Caitlin Stasey has accused a magazine of dropping a feature story about her after she would not pose nude for photographs.
Stasey, an outspoken advocate for women’s rights, launched a website in January called Herself.com, in which women pose naked, including Stasey, and answer personal questions about themselves and body taboos.
Early Thursday, the former Neighbours star released a flood of tweets claiming the Fairfax Media magazine, Good Weekend, had dumped a piece they were going to run on the actress and her body of work.
The article was to be accompanied by an intimate photo spread, but after Stasey declined to pose nude or in underwear, she said, the publication dropped the interview citing lack of space.
She wrote on Twitter there was a difference between posing nude “on her own terms,” and doing so for the media.
Editor of the Good Weekend magazine, Ben Naparstek, told Mashable Australia he “understood and respected” Caitlin’s decision not to pursue their photoshoot.
“[It] would have been a classy shoot with a leading American fashion photographer in line with the beautiful artistic imagery she’d published of herself on Herself.Com, which she’d just launched,” he wrote in an email.
“We decided not to pursue the shoot when her agent offered us access to existing portraits instead. But with the Herself.Com peg no longer as strong, we chose to delay the profile until later in the year so it could be tied to the new seasons of her series Please Like Me and Reign.”