Nelly Furtado was offered more than $1 million to pose nude for Playboy

SEXY singer Nelly Furtado reveals she once turned down more than a $1 million offer to strip naked for Playboy.

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Nelly offered $1m for Playboy

SEXY singer Nelly Furtado reveals she once turned down more than a $1 million offer to strip naked for Playboy.

"The magazine was even prepared to pay me $US500,000 to pose with my clothes on. I didn’t want Playboy on my resume at the age of 22. If they ask me when I’m 40 I’ll probably say yes," she told The Mail on Sunday newspaper in the UK.

Now 30 and living in Toronto, Canada, with her husband and a child from a previous relationship, Furtado admits her early success overwhelmed her and she had a breakdown.

"It was too much too soon. After two years of intense touring and partying I’d spend hours alone in my LA home, just staring at the floor. I felt like a fraud, believing that people liked me for my image and not my music." she said.

Furtado also reveals her love of British band Oasis, which recently split up again.

"That band meant the world to me. As a 16-year-old I would write letters to Liam (Gallagher) with my photo attached and pray that he would ask me out on a date, but he never did. At college I learned to play guitar to Wonderwall. Oasis were everything I loved about pop music. They could express emotions with the most simple song structures. They had the kind of brash attitude I could completely relate to."

She also reveals that she is working again with producer Timbaland.