Dannii Minogue Agrees To Strip Off To Pay Off Huge Debts  Dannii Minogue |
Dannii Minogue agreed to strip off for Playboy magazine after struggling to pay off her spiralling debts.
The pop star found herself owing $240,000 (£150,000) and couldn't even afford her rent after her marriage to actor Julian McMahon crumbled in 1995.
The singer refused to ask her superstar sibling Kylie to lend her the money, and decided to go against her parents' advice and bare all in a saucy pictorial in the men's mag so she could finally pay off her debts.
She tells journalist Piers Morgan, "My parents didn't want me to do it. My dad was saying, 'Doing this is forever - you can never, ever change it.'
"Kylie knew why I was doing it - I could have asked her for the money, but it wasn't in my nature. I never wanted to admit the trouble I was in. I should have been looking at my finances."
Minogue has refused to reveal how much she profited from Playboy, but she insists she doesn't regret the decision: "I would never disclose how much - but it had to be a lot to look at my parents' faces and see the anguish in my dad's eyes.
"I don't regret it, but I feel relieved that people know why I did it - it's a huge weight off my shoulders. It was actually fun and I did feel liberated. I looked at the pictures and thought, 'I look alright!'
"The magazine was the biggest selling title they'd ever had and they had to reprint. My girlfriends went out to buy it and told me I looked beautiful. It then felt like a celebration of me."
