Naked Ambition: When Famous People Take Their Clothes Off

2 years ago

0 Comments Say Something »

Text Size

Woman Up Editor

Certain high-profile professions, politicians especially, have historically been discouraged from engaging in public nudity. Bad career move. Although town folk sniffed, an Oregon mayor last year refused to delete images of her black lingerie and positive body image from MySpace. The uncomfortable citizens held a recall election and the 42-year old single mother, Carmen Kontur-Gronquist, lost her unpaid chief executive job by a handful of votes.

A different standard apparently applies to Republican Massachusetts State Senator Scott Brown, who, as an "adorably sexy" Boston College student and amateur model in 1982, stripped naked for Cosmopolitan and let the flash bulbs pop. The winner of the magazine's America's Sexiest Man contest didn't say if he expected the nude pictures to some day impact his aspirations, but the "dreamboat" did tell editors the $1000 he earned for the shoot would go toward law school, adding, with prescient political instincts, "I'm a bit of a patriot."

Today Brown is hoping to fill the US senate seat left empty when Ted Kennedy died last month. Brown's campaign told Newsweek, he does not regret taking his cloths off for Cosmo. Who knows? It could even help his career.

Filed Under: Woman Up, Culture

Tagged: famous+people+naked, famouspeoplenaked, scott brown, ScottBrown, vanessa williams, VanessaWilliams

Our New Approach to Comments

In an effort to encourage the same level of civil dialogue among Politics Daily’s readers that we expect of our writers – a “civilogue,” to use the term coined by PD’s Jeffrey Weiss – we are requiring commenters to use their AOL or AIM screen names to submit a comment, and we are reading all comments before publishing them. Personal attacks (on writers, other readers, Nancy Pelosi, George W. Bush, or anyone at all) and comments that are not productive additions to the conversation will not be published, period, to make room for a discussion among those with ideas to kick around. Please read our Help and Feedback section for more info.