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Monday, 5th February 2007 at 9:24 am
South African Celebrities Get Naked to Fight AIDS
Eighteen South African celebrities stripped down to their birthday suits to pose for pics for Marie Claire Magazine’s Each One Reach One campaign against HIV/AIDS.
Which we find rather ironic, because indiscriminately taking off their clothes is how many people get AIDS in the first place.
Anyway, since Marie Claire has no aspirations to become the next Loslyf magazine, the nude black and white pics, taken by well-known South African photographer Richard Keppel-Smith, are profiled in a specially sealed section of this month’s issue of the magazine. The portraits will be auctioned off and the money will be donated to the Treatment Action Campaign.
“Some of the celebrities we approached to pose naked declined right off,” says Kate Wilson, editor of Marie Claire SA.
“Others who had agreed to be photographed with strategically-placed props later changed their minds and withdrew permission for their pictures to appear, which only goes to demonstrate the nerve and selflessness of those who went all the way.”
Those celebs who didn’t chicken out are:
- Models Lisa and Michelle Cowley
- Actress Hlubi Mboya
- Assistant editor and Sunday World columnist Kuli Roberts
- Comedian Cokey Falkow
- Actress Candice Derman
- Actress and host of Temptation SA Bridget Masinga (pictured)
- Model Nzinga Qunta and producer/presenter/actor Tim Horwood
- Celebrity foodie Justine Drake
- Product designer and SA creative entrepreneur of the Year Heath Nash
- Former Miss SA Teen Masechaba Dlengezele
- Country rockabilly band 3 Bored white guys
- Songwriter, singer and DJ Unathi Nkayi
- Miss South Africa 2005 Thuli Sithole
Now see, if we had bodies like most of these girls, we would have been fearless enough to take it all off too. If they had convinced someone more sturdy like Egoli actress Shaleen Surtie-Richards to take off her clothes for the campaign and she had accepted, that would have been brave all around!
Reports Bizcommunity: “The February issue also features US actress Ashley Judd posing topless on the cover and an exclusive interview in which she talks to Wilson about her involvement in YouthAIDS and her visit to South Africa.
“Readers have until 1 March 2007 to place a bid on their portrait of choice. Bids start at R1000.”
Additional reading: Getting naked in the fight against HIV/AIDS - Bizcommunity.
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4 Comments:
zola says:
i think its cool . i cant judge or say something yet . let me read and see pics first. maybe theres something positive out of it.
Melissa Dean says:
Nudity does not spread AIDS. Dishonesty, infidelity disrespect and poverty spreads AIDS. And IGNORANCE. Let us abandon this discourse that is trying to make sex and love and nudity ugly, negative, dangerous things and place the blame where it belongs: on each one of us, to be honest, respectful, and responsible. Our bodies are beautiful, and celebrating them in a positive and open way instead of in a hidden, secret, shameful, perverted way may be one path to reclaiming the health and positivity of sexuality. It is not an either/or world. The options are NOT do not have sex OR have sex and get AIDS. HIV is a behavior-oriented disease, and IT IS PREVENTABLE. You do not get it because of who you are but because of what you do - or what other people do to you. For those of us fortunate enough to be able to choose our partners and to have the power to say no and demand respectful treatment, we can create healthy, positive sexuality. Claiming ownership over our own bodies is a powerful step in realizing that they are ours to protect and nourish - kids in SOuth Africa and everywhere else need to know that first and foremost they are in control and ownership of their bodies and no one else has a right to them unless they so choose - THIS is a basis to ending abuse and exploitation and giving people a voice to say no, or maybe or when and how. And choosing to pose naked in such strong poses is definitely an expression of self-ownership. If you think naked bodies - as the gods made them - are disgusting I would say you have some issues you need to deal with privately and your voice is not a useful one in the discourse surrounding the problem of HIV/AIDS. This is not an issue of nudity, it is an issue of self-respect and power over self rather than over others.
Much peace.
Let’s kill this thing (HIV)
Frleank says:
Why not, it saves some lives, gives financial benefits to charity and satisfies some “freeks” out there. It is positive and should be viewed as disgust….
27th March 2007, 7:51 pm
monwabisi says:
Its disgusting!!