Nicole Kidman’s very revealing new magazine cover has fans divided
Nicole Kidman looks incredible in her latest racy magazine cover – but the arresting image has sparked fierce debate among her fanbase.
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Australian actress Nicole Kidman has always been up for appearing on an eye-catching magazine cover – and her latest is no exception.
The Aussie A-lister, 57, today shared her latest mag cover on Instagram, where it proved to be surprisingly divisive among those commenting. Kidman appears on the latest issue of W magazine to discuss her latest film, the erotic psychological thriller Babygirl, and she’s dressed in appropriately sexy attire given the film’s themes.
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While she’s covered up on top, on her bottom half Kidman wears nothing but high-cut lace underwear and suspenders in the arresting image.
While some fans on Instagram praised the new cover as “iconic” and “badass,” others were less impressed.
“Just embarrassing,” one commenter fumed, while another left the cutting comment: “at which point will you have sold enough of yourself?”
Another complained that she was “cheapening” herself, while yet another suggested the cover shoot could “destroy her reputation”.
She’s hardly likely to care, though. Kidman has appeared in a number of bold, revealing magazine covers in recent years, each of which was met with a similarly divided reaction.
There was her 2022 Vanity Fair cover for the mag’s annual Hollywood Issue, a photo that showed her wearing a tiny Miu Miu mini skirt and crop-top, her impressive abs on full display as she stood between two golden gates, one leg cocked.
Some fans criticised the mag for dressing Kidman up like “a teenager in Euphoria” – only for the star to later reveal that the outfit had been her idea, and she’d “begged” Vanity Fair to let her wear it in favour of the look they’d picked out for her.
Later that same year, she set tongues wagging again by flexing her muscles for an eye-catching cover shoot for Perfect Magazine. The shot showed Kidman wearing a tiny mini skirt and halter top, flexing her impressive muscles as she gazes defiantly at the camera.
Of her racy magazine shoots, Kidman said in 2022 that “sometimes it’s going to work, and sometimes it isn’t. But I love the idea of being bold and not fitting into a box.”
Not that Kidman doesn’t have a few fashion regrets. In the accompanying interview with W Magazine, she opens up about a few of what she calls her red carpet “train wrecks” — confessing her late mother wasn’t shy about voicing her opinion on her daughter’s fashion hits and misses.
“I remember wearing a headdress once to the Golden Globes,” she recalled, referencing the 2004 ceremony where she wore a gold headband and Dior minidress.
“I didn’t know what I was doing. Got to have a few train wrecks!”
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