Danii Minogue: Posing naked for Playboy was a power move
Australian pop star Dannii Minogue has no regrets about posing naked for Playboy in 1995 and defends her decision saying it was a "compete feminist move".
Dannii Minogue has no regrets posing naked for Playboy calling it a “complete feminist move".
The 51-year-old Australian singer - who is the younger sister of pop icon Kylie Minogue, 54 - appeared nude on the cover and in the pages of magazine back in 1995.
Dannii - who is mother to 12-year-old son Ethan - defended her decision to expose her body to the world despite her son and his friends being able to see the sexy shoot now.
Speaking to The Guardian newspaper, she said: “It was personally empowering to me. I still stand by those photos. I still think it’s awesome.
“My son’s 12, he and his friends are all on their phones, they’ll be Googling, pictures will come up – but I still absolutely 100 per cent stand by that as a complete feminist move.
“Anyone can look at those pictures and you can say whatever you want about them. My body, my choice, my space. I controlled everything about the photos, the shoot, everything. And it just made me feel powerful.
"My body, my choice, my space. I controlled everything about the photos, the shoot, everything. And it just made me feel powerful.”
Dannii went against her father’s wishes who discouraged her from doing it claiming she’d be making a terrible career move.
She revealed: “He just hands down said, ‘I do not want you to do this. I think this is the worst move that you could make.'"
Growing up in her sisters shadow for Dannii was hard, who was constantly compared to her famous sister, and admitted that she agreed to appear in the X-rated magazine after the flop of her second album as well as the breakdown of her marriage with actor Julian McMahon.
She said: “Most women go to the hairdressers – I did Playboy!"
