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A 2009 AP photo of Australian singer and actress Dannii
Minogue.
Dannii Minogue has revealed that 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
stg150,000 ($NZ343,170) 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.
Minogue, whose comments were published in The Sun
newspaper, 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!'.
