Lara Bingle will donate money from her interview about a nude
photo scandal to an anti-bullying programme, 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 told AAP.
Markson said reports Bingle was paid $A200,000 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.
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