Veena Malik, the Pakistani model and actress at the centre of a storm about allegations that she posed nude for a men’s magazine, has strongly defended the images and questioned why acknowledging sexuality is such an issue.
Veena Malik is seeking $2m in damages from FHM India, alleging that they "morphed" the images to make her appear naked. The magazine denies the claims. “In India everything is referred to ISI (Pakistan’s spy agency Inter Services Intelligence)”, she told Geo TV.
“Even if a very small thing happens, they say ISI is behind it. Everybody blames ISI for everything.” Malik said the original idea had been Kabeer Sharma’s, editor of FHM’s Indian edition, but that the photos had been “morphed”.
Regarding the photos in FHM India magazine, she said: "If you look at my shoot, I do admit that I have done a topless shoot."
"But it was not that topless - a proportion of the body was covered with my hands," she said. "I liked the idea of a bold shoot, but I did not do a nude shoot - that's why I am standing here today, because I have to prove it. "I won't allow anybody to remove my bikini or my shalwar (loose trousers) or my dupatta (scarf).
"If I want to do it, I will do it myself. And if I do it, I will own it," she told BBC's World Have Your Say programme. Asked about reports that her father has disowned her and has called for her to be punished, Ms Malik said, "My father is angry."
Maintaining that “there's a difference between wearing a bikini and not wearing anything”, Malik also replied to suggestions that she had been “so excited” about the shoot.
“That was not the first shoot which I have done in my life that I was so excited or something” she contended. “That is part of my job.”
Veena Malik is seeking $2m in damages from FHM India, alleging that they "morphed" the images to make her appear naked. The magazine denies the claims. “In India everything is referred to ISI (Pakistan’s spy agency Inter Services Intelligence)”, she told Geo TV.
“Even if a very small thing happens, they say ISI is behind it. Everybody blames ISI for everything.” Malik said the original idea had been Kabeer Sharma’s, editor of FHM’s Indian edition, but that the photos had been “morphed”.
Regarding the photos in FHM India magazine, she said: "If you look at my shoot, I do admit that I have done a topless shoot."
"But it was not that topless - a proportion of the body was covered with my hands," she said. "I liked the idea of a bold shoot, but I did not do a nude shoot - that's why I am standing here today, because I have to prove it. "I won't allow anybody to remove my bikini or my shalwar (loose trousers) or my dupatta (scarf).
"If I want to do it, I will do it myself. And if I do it, I will own it," she told BBC's World Have Your Say programme. Asked about reports that her father has disowned her and has called for her to be punished, Ms Malik said, "My father is angry."
Maintaining that “there's a difference between wearing a bikini and not wearing anything”, Malik also replied to suggestions that she had been “so excited” about the shoot.
“That was not the first shoot which I have done in my life that I was so excited or something” she contended. “That is part of my job.”
