Photographed girl defends nude magazine cover
A girl who posed nude as a six-year-old is defending the use of the photograph on the front cover of an arts magazine.
Now 11 years old, Olympia Nelson says she has no problems with the photo her mother, Melbourne photographer Polixeni Papapetrou, took of her when she was six.
The photo is on the front cover of this month's Art Monthly magazine, and the New South Wales Government is referring the magazine to the Classification Board.
The picture has reignited public debate about the use of children in art, after controversy in May when artist Bill Henson's photographs of a naked prepubescent girl in a Sydney gallery were confiscated by police.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has said he cannot stand the picture and Federal Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson says he will ask the Federal Police to investigate.
But the model Olympia Nelson has taken umbrage at those comments.
"I think that the picture my mum took of me has nothing to do with being abused," she said.
"I'm really, really offended by what Kevin Rudd said about this picture."
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