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Lara Bingle - Source: Reuters -
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Lara Bingle says she has been humiliated by the release of a
nude photo she claims was taken by AFL footballer Brendan
Fevola.
She says the photo was taken without her permission and she feels
exploited and compromised by its release.
"It's ... incredibly humiliating to think he 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 magazine, which last week published the photo.
The model and fiancée 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 fiancé 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 says.
The scandal broke last week when the nude shower picture of Bingle,
allegedly taken while she and Fevola were involved in a secret
affair in 2006, was published in Woman's Day.
Fevola was later wiped from an AFL television campaign after it
questioned the controversial Brisbane star over the nude
photo.
It was reported Bingle was paid as much as $A200,000 for the
interview and photo shoot but her manager Max Markson and the
magazine have denied this.
