Miranda Kerr Nude Harper's Bazaar Cover Pulled From Australian Shelves

Trending News: See The Miranda Kerr Cover Shot Deemed Too Sexy For Australia

Why Is This Important?

Because prudishness is international.

Long Story Short

At least one Australian grocery chain has pulled this month's issue of Harper's Bazaar from it's shelves, citing its cover featuring a nude Miranda Kerr as being too sexy. The magazine is disappointed with the recall.

Long Story

Australia — home of the world's highest concentration of deadly animals, a warm, welcoming culture and toilets that flush exactly the same way ours do. It's also home to the eminently lovely former Victoria's Secret angel Miranda Kerr, who appears tastefully nude on this month's cover of Harper's Bazaar Australia. But if you're shopping for magazines at the same place you get your Vegemite and Fosters, you may not know that: One Australian grocery chain, Coles, has pulled the cover from its shelves.

"We didn't think the cover was appropriate for our stores so the decision was made," a Coles spokesman told The Sydney Morning Herald.

To each their own, but she's not technically naked — she's wearing shoes, after all. Plus, Kerr reveals in the accompanying interview that not only is she wearing a g-string in the photo, she spent her time on set covered in a robe. I honestly don't see what the fuss could be about. Neither does Harper's Bazaar.

"I was really disappointed to hear Coles made the decision to pull the Miranda Kerr issue off shelves," said editor in chief Kellie Hush.
"The cover is a beautiful artistic image taken by one of Australia's best photographer's Steven Chee and I stand by that."

The pendulum indicating how liberated society is when it comes to things like nudity is always swinging to and fro, and it's starting to feel like we're heading in a more prudish direction. First Playboy decided to sanitize its flagship magazine and website in an effort to boost waning sales, and now people (Australians, of all people) are clutching their pearls at the sight of some underboob and torso.

Miranda, if you need a safe space to get naked without judgement, our doors are always open.

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Ask The Big Question

Is the cover actually inappropriate, or are people overreacting?

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Other than maybe some objection to the underboob, I don't see the big deal.

Drop This Fact

This is not Kerr's first brush with nude artistic photography — in June 2009, she posed naked, chained to a tree, for an issue of Rolling Stone Australia to raise awareness for the endangered koalas.