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Kate Moss Says She Felt 'Pressure' to Pose Topless When She Started Modeling


Kate Moss has become one of the most well-known names in fashion, and her artistic editorials rank among the most iconic images in the industry. Many of them involve the supermodel posing topless—and, in retrospect, the model feels she wasn’t always comfortable with them.

In a recent interview on Megyn Kelly Today, Moss was asked if she ever felt pressure to pose with no top on, particularly when she was starting her career. The model immediately answered, “There was pressure.”

Moss continued: “I worked with a woman photographer called Corinne Day, and she always liked me with no top on. And I did not like it at all when I first started.”

Day was behind the lens for Moss’s infamous 1993 Calvin Klein campaign, in which she posed nude with then-boyfriend Mario Sorrenti. Moss reflected on the shoot: “And then I suppose—Mario was my boyfriend so I was kind of used to it but I was still always like, ‘Can I just put some clothes on?’ But that was the job, so I kind of just did it.”

Moss’ comments are particularly poignant in the wake of the #MeToo movement, particularly as it pertains to the modeling world. Last year, there were a number of sexual assault allegations made against some high-powered photographers, which led to several new regulations and programs to protect models.

Moss offered some advice for anyone who, like her, has felt pressured to pose without their clothes on: “They don’t have to do it if they don’t want to do it I wouldn’t let my daughter [15-year-old Lila Grace Moss-Hack] do it—I look at her now and she’s 15, and to think that I was going topless at her age is crazy.”

That doesn’t mean she isn’t supportive of her daughter’s burgeoning modeling career, though. “I will support her, obviously. I’ll be her manager,” she said. “Her momager?” Megyn Kelly asked. “Yes, I’ll be her momager,” Moss said. “If she wants to, I’ll support her in anything she wants to do.”

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Redskins Cheerleaders Say They Were Required to Pose Topless In Costa Rica: Report


On Wednesday, The New York Times released a detailed and scathing report alleging the Washington Redskins sent its cheerleading squad to Costa Rica, only to then confiscate their passports and put their safety at risk during a 2013 photoshoot.

According to five Redskins cheerleaders who spoke to the Times on the condition of anonymity, the team sent the squad to Costa Rica for its yearly calendar shoot. There, the women explained that a photoshoot took place at the adults-only Occidental Grand Papagayo resort on Culebra Bay where some of the women were allegedly required to be topless, while others wore nothing but body paint. While many assumed the shoot would be private, they apparently learned upon arrival that several high-level male sponsors were invited to watch.

“At one of my friend’s shoots, we were basically standing around her like a human barricade because she was basically naked, so we could keep the guys from seeing her,” one of the cheerleaders told the Times. “I was getting so angry that the guys on the trip were skeezing around in the background.”

Following the shoot, the women said that nine of their cheerleading teammates were told they had a “special assignment,” which was to escort those sponsors to an area nightclub.

“They weren’t putting a gun to our heads,” one of the cheerleaders told the Times, “but it was mandatory for us to go. We weren’t asked, we were told. Other girls were devastated because we knew exactly what she was doing.”

While the night did not involve sex, the women claimed it was tantamount to “pimping us out.”

“It’s just not right to send cheerleaders out with strange men when some of the girls clearly don’t want to go,” one cheerleader who attended the trip told the Times. “But unfortunately, I feel like it won’t change until something terrible happens, like a girl is assaulted in some way, or raped. I think teams will start paying attention to this only when it’s too late.”

Stephanie Jojokian, the director and choreographer for the Redskins’ cheerleaders, denied the claims made by the women in the report. According to the Times, Jojokian choked up when asked about the allegations and said, “It breaks my heart because I’m a mom and I’ve done this for a long time. Where is this coming from? I would never put a woman in a situation like that. I actually mentor these women to be strong and to speak up, and it kills me to hear that.”

In an additional statement provided to the Times, a spokesperson for The Redskins said, “The Redskins’ cheerleader program is one of the NFL’s premier teams in participation, professionalism, and community service. Each Redskin cheerleader is contractually protected to ensure a safe and constructive environment. The work our cheerleaders do in our community, visiting our troops abroad, and supporting our team on the field is something the Redskins organization and our fans take great pride in.”

Though the Redskins deny the allegations, several of the women told the Times that the trip was so damaging they chose not to return to the squad the next season.

“You kept telling yourself that it was going to get better,” one woman said. “But it never got better. Finally, I had to admit to myself, this is not what I thought it would be.”

The Redskins isn’t the only team facing serious allegations for its alleged treatment of cheerleaders. In early April, Kristan Ware, who spent three seasons as a Miami Dolphins cheerleader, filed a complaint against both the league and the team claiming she was discriminated against based on her religion and gender. According to Ware’s complaint, she was specifically told by two team coaches in an annual work review not to discuss her virginity.

“You have taken something that was once upon a time pure and beautiful and you’ve made it dirty,” Ware claims Dolphins cheerleading director Dorie Grogan said.

Additionally, in April, Bailey Davis, a former New Orleans Saints cheerleader, filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against both the NFL and the Saints, claiming she was unfairly fired over “blatantly discriminatory” social media and fraternization policies that she says are different for cheerleaders than they are for the male players.

“The players have the freedom to post whatever they want to on social media,” Davis explained to NPR after she was fired for posting an image of herself in lingerie on her personal Instagram account. “They can promote themselves, but we can’t post anything on our social media about being a Saintsation. We can’t have it in our profile picture, we can’t use our last name for media, we can’t promote ourselves, but the players don’t have the same restrictions.”

Both cases are still pending, though both women have offered to settle with the NFL for $1 each if NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and league lawyers would agree to a meeting. “This was never about money for me,” Davis told ABC News. “This is about having respect for our sport and standing up for our sport and standing up for women.”

The NFL provided this official statement to The New York Times: “Everyone who works in the NF., including cheerleaders, has the right to work in a positive and respectful environment that is free from any and all forms of harassment and discrimination and fully complies with state and federal laws. Our office will work with our clubs in sharing best practices and employment-related processes that will support club cheerleading squads within an appropriate and supportive workplace.”

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Would You Pose With Your Sisters Like the Kardashians Do?


At first, when I saw the new Kardashian-Jenner Calvin Klein campaign, I didn’t think anything was weird. We’re so used to seeing the five famous sisters huddled together—hands clasped around one another’s waist, lips puckered up for a kiss—that nothing seemed out of the ordinary. In fact, their physical closeness is one of the things that makes them so fun to watch on screen. In a culture of for-the-cameras relationships, these siblings (some half, some full, some decades older than others) seem irreducibly, even aspirationally, close.

And then I gave the images a second look.

Once you strip away all the fast-take headlines practically embedded in Belgian photographer Willy Vanderperre’s images—Whose Bump Is Hiding Behind Whom? When, Dear GOD, Were These Pictures Taken? Who Was Photoshopped Into a Bratz Doll?—there is only one thing left: raw sexuality. Between sisters.

PHOTO: COURTESY OF CALVIN KLEIN/WILLY VANDERPERRE

I was instantly reminded of that 2015 V magazine editorial with Gigi and Bella Hadid. In it the sisters, then 18 and 19 years old, pose for 49-year-old photographer Steven Klein in a series of compromising positions: sisters spooning in knee high-boots and cut-out body suits, their legs intertwined; sisters holding hands in mesh dresses; sisters standing and sitting with their legs spread. The headline? “Double Trouble.” (Also worth mentioning: the just-about-to-kiss body language in Kendall and Kylie Jenner’s 2015 Balmain campaign. Kylie was only 17 when the campaign, shot by Mario Sorrenti, then 43, was released.)

Of course, suggestive, women-only kincest imagery isn’t new to the heteronormative canon. Encoded in pictures and headlines like these is the lamely sexist suggestion that two female siblings in their underwear might just—whoops!—blur the line between sisterly love and lust.

Unfortunately (and perhaps expectedly), this fantasy doesn’t cut both ways. Don’t believe me? Just try to imagine this Calvin Klein shoot with a group brothers. Picture Chris, Liam, and the third Hemsworth cuddled up in an abandoned barn with their hands on each other’s abdomens. OK, now picture that Liam has no pants on and is casually covering his tushy cheeks with a country blanket. Yeah. The whole thing adds up to a whole bunch of WHYYY. It would never happen—nor would this kind of sisterly touching occur in the real world.

Kylie and Kendall get physical for Balmain, 2015

“The whole thing is weird. I’d say I’m very close with my sisters but not that close,” editorial assistant Tess Kornfeld, 24, said when I asked for feedback. “I can’t imagine posing with my sister in a sexualized way,” offered up features assistant Samantha Leach, 25. “We don’t have many boundaries, but I’d never want to pose in lingerie with her.” Added another Glamour staffer, 29: “I have no issue with my sisters seeing me naked, or sleeping next to me in a bed in undies and a tank top, but I would never pose in a weird ad that makes it look like we’re game for threesomes.”

I then took my research to the wizards of Instagram. Of the 271 people who viewed my poll, above, only 27 responded. Of those responders, only four people voted yes (though I am disqualifying my husband’s friend Glenn, because he is not a woman. Also, how Glenn of a move is that?) Eighty-five percent of responders said they would “never” touch their sisters the way depicted in these ads.

Included in those who responded “yes, duh” to sisterly touching was my friend and fellow editor Danielle Prescod, 29. “I don’t even see it as sexual,” she texted me when I asked for her reasoning. “They feel individually sexy to me, but it doesn’t make me feel like they’re trying to be sexy with each other. I’m more uncomfortable when it’s brother-sister stuff, like Anwar and Gigi.”

In an effort to get some cross-generational perspective, I emailed my own sister, who, at 42, is a decade older than I am. “Are all those people really sisters?” she responded. I quickly broke down the Kardashian-Jenner family tree and asked my question again: Would you be comfortable touching me, your little sister, like this? “I’m not offended by the photo, if that’s what you’re asking,” she eventually wrote back. “If I were getting paid a bazillion dollars like the Kardashians, maybe.” A few minutes later a new message from my popped up in my inbox. “Wait, would the photo be published?” she wrote. “To be clear, I don’t want a nudie photo of me published anywhere—with or without you.”



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