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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Bollywood Star Sherlyn Chopra First Indian Woman To Cover Playboy

Bollywood actress Sherlyn Chopra will be the first Indian woman to grace the cover of Playboy in November.

Chopra contacted Playboy wanting to take it all off for the men’s magazine and Hugh Hefner accepted her request.

The Bollywood star’s nude spread is very controversial, given the fact that Playboy is banned in her native India, although her fans will be able to view her nude pictures online.

Sherlyn said of her Playboy cover, “I have become the first Indian to pose naked for Playboy and nobody can take away that achievement from me. My sister is proud of my achievement. I haven’t told anything to my mother, but I think I will visit her and tell her that she has to accept me the way I am.”

The 28-year-old star tweeted about her time with Hefner, writing, “Even at 87, he knows how to be an effortless charmer!!!”

India media commentator Gayatri Sankar compared Chopra’s choice to pose in Playboy to the sexual abuse and humiliation that some women face in India against their will.

Sankar wrote, “At a time when innocent women across the nation from Gujarat to Guwahati have been subjected to sexual abuse and humiliation, one wonders if Sherlyn Chopra’s pictures wound a woman’s integrity. Isn’t it an irony that on the one side, as common women strive hard to safeguard their modesty, the Sherlyn Chopras encourage voyeurism?”

Chopra defended her decision, telling BBC Hindi, “I have become the first Indian to pose naked for Playboy, and nobody can take away that achievement from me. It is not an easy task to be nude in front of the camera and look good at the same time.”