Dannii Minoque reveals she stripped to pay debts

Dannii Minogue has revealed how she stripped naked for Australian Playboy magazine so she could pay off her mounting debts.

The pop star-turned-TV talent show host had racked up $NZ346,030 worth of debts after her marriage to actor Julian McMahon crumbled in 1995.

Not wanting to ask her pop princess sister Kylie to bail her out, Minogue decided to bare all for the men's magazine.

"My parents didn't want me to do it," she told celebrity interviewer Piers Morgan in a program due to be aired on Britain's ITV1 on Saturday.

"My dad was saying, 'Doing this is forever -- you can never, ever change it'.

"Kylie knew why I was doing it. I could have asked her for the money but it wasn't in my nature.

"I never wanted to admit the trouble I was in. I should have been looking at my finances." Minogue, whose comments were published in The Sun newspaper on Thursday, said she had no regrets about posing naked for the raunchy magazine shots.

"I don't regret it, but I feel relieved that people know why I did it -- it's a huge weight off my shoulders," she said.

"It was actually fun and I did feel liberated. I looked at the pictures and thought, 'I look all right!'.

"The magazine was the biggest-selling title they had ever had and they had to reprint." Minogue also wept as she recounted being told that her big sister had breast cancer in 2005.

"You just go to another depth," the 38-year-old said.

"You find strength within yourself that you never knew you had because you never needed it before.

"She's been so strong. In my head it's not going to come back; that's just not going to happen." Minogue's boyfriend, former Leeds Rhinos rugby league player Kris Smith, also appears by video during the interview and reveals how he wants kids.

"I was brought up around children so I'm really keen," he says.

"But the answer I get (from Dannii) is, 'Well, if you can go through the nine months and you can have the babies then, yes, I'm in'."