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Lara Bingle will donate money from her interview about a nude photo scandal to an anti-bullying program, her agent says.
Bingle has opened up in a magazine interview about the release of a nude photo she claims was taken by AFL footballer Brendan Fevola, saying she has been deeply humiliated.
Her celebrity agent Max Markson says Bingle, 22, has decided to give an "undisclosed amount" of the money she was paid for the interview to charity.
"She is making a donation to the White Ribbon Foundation which is a charity that is against domestic violence and it would appear they are going to be putting it towards their bullying program," Markson said.
Markson said reports Bingle was paid $200,000 for the interview and photo shoot with Woman's Day were "false".
Bingle told the magazine the photo was taken without her permission and she felt exploited and compromised by its release.
"It's ... incredibly humiliating to think he (Fevola) passed it around to his friends, who passed it on to their friends. When I found out about it, I just felt like I had been violated," she told Woman's Day, which last week published the photo of Bingle in the shower which was allegedly taken while she and Fevola were involved in a secret affair in 2006.
The model and fiancee of Australian cricketer Michael Clarke says she is suing the footballer to restore her "dignity and self-respect" and to show it's "not cool or funny" to distribute nude photos of anyone.
"Women should not have to accept that sort of behaviour just because a boyfriend or partner wants to impress their friends. It is demeaning and disrespectful of us."
In the wide-ranging interview Bingle talks about her relationship with Clarke, cricket, marriage and children.
She describes her fiance as amazing and says he has supported her in the "ups and downs that have happened in my life".
"He is always there for me," she said.
