Recently, nude pictures of The Hills star Audrina Patridge surfaced on the celebrity blog What Would Tyler Durden Do. The pictures were taken when she had just graduated from high school and was only 19 years old. The pictures were meant to kick off her modeling career and be sent to Playboy, but were never meant to be released to the public. The Hills is a popular MTV “reality” show that follows the life of Lauren Conrad, previous Laguna Beach star, her best friend Audrina Patridge, and their enemies Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt. Since the new season of The Hills premiers Monday, March 24th, Audrina and her publicist had to respond to this issue immediately so that it would not affect the shows season premier.
"I took these photos years ago when I was just out of high school and beginning to model. I was young and very trusting of others and I didn't know to protect myself," said Patridge in a statement released by her representative and obtained by TMZ.com. "It is a lesson learned, for myself, and hopefully for the young girls who look up to me."
Not even 24 hours after the pictures surfaced online, Audrina posted a response to this issue on her myspace defending the pictures because she was young and naïve and advocating that her young fans learn from her inexperience. "I intended them to be artistic and not in any way provocative," Patridge wrote in a blog posted to her MySpace Celebrity page. "I was naive, overly trusting of people and inexperienced. I thought that to be a model you had to be comfortable in front of the camera." She also made an immediate blog post similar to her address of the situation on her myspace page. She also made an appearance on the morning WPIX CW show to explain the situation.
I think that Audrina and her publicist have handled the situation very well so far. She immediately made a response to the situation rather than hiding from it and waiting for it to go away. The other Hills cast members are also helping the situation by being supportive and not giving out any unnecessary information. While she has not apologized for the pictures she has admitted that they were a result of being young, inexperienced, and taken advantage of, which is an appropriate response. By making a statement that she hoped that other young girls will learn from her mistake, she will probably keep some of her younger fans and not be so attacked by parents, etc.
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