Caitlin Stasey slams mag for nudity request
Good Weekend editor Ben Naparstek. Photo: Twitter
Actress and feminist Caitlin Stasey has slammed the Good Weekend magazine for allegedly assuming she would pose nude for its cover.
The former Neighbours star first tweeted about the incident on Thursday, accusing Fairfax’s weekend edition of dropping an article on her when she declined to strip off.
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“Good Weekend magazine suddenly doesn’t have the space to run a piece on me because I wouldn’t do a shoot in my underwear,” Stasey wrote to her 91,000 followers.
“They wanted to team an interview about my upset over the constant objectification of women with a sexualized photo shoot. I declined.”
In an interview with Pedestrian.tv, Stasey, who runs feminist site Herself.com, said she was “surprised and mildly offended” when the magazine allegedly first made the nudity request.
“They were full steam ahead, go go go, until I refused to pose naked.”
In a statement to media, Good Weekend editor Ben Pararstek defended his decision not to run the interview, blaming it on timing, not Stasey’s refusal to go nude.
“We decided not to pursue the shoot when her agent offered us access to existing portraits instead.
“But with the Herself.Com peg no longer as strong, we chose to delay the profile until later in the year so it could be tied to the new seasons of her series Please Like Me and Reign.”