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Audrina Patridgeis opening up about topless photos she felt “pressured” to take when she was still a Hollywood hopeful.
“I was kind of guided and peer-pressured in certain situations that I wish I could say, ‘No,’ and be strong with my ‘No’ and not fall into peer pressure with, you know, topless photos,“The Hillsalum, 37, explained on arecent episodeofNick Viall’sThe Viall Filespodcast.
Noting that it was “devastating” when the photographs were first published, Patridge said she trusted the photographer who took the pics, but continued, “People [spun] it into a judgmental, negative way, and then it makes you feel shameful and bad about yourself.”
Added Patridge, “Navigating your early 20s and teens is hard, and those choices you do sometimes have to live with. You learn from them, but then you can teach other people from what you’ve been through.”
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Patridge’s topless photos first surfaced online back in 2008. At the time, the star issued a statement to TMZ.
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“[He] was like, ‘Who cares? They’re boobs. Everybody has boobs,” she told Viall, 41. “Stop freaking out about it.'”
She added, “For me, I had to put things in perspective where it was like, ‘Alright, who cares?'”
source: people.com
