Demi Lovato bares it all in a "spontaneous, nude, makeup-free" photo shoot for Vanity Fair. The "Skyscraper" singer decided to pose for a series of portraits for photographer Patrick Ecclesine with "no makeup, no clothes, no retouching” as the three main rules.
The photos, taken in her hotel room in Manhattan past midnight, were released on Friday and have gone viral since then. This is the first time that Lovato posed nude for a magazine. In the short video accompanying the series, Lovato talked about the reason why she decided to take this bold step.
"The reason I wanted to do this photo shoot was because when I... when I think of confident, I think of many things, but one thing in particular is feeling comfortable in your own skin," she said in the video, as per Newsday.
It can be remembered that the "Cool for the Summer" singer went to rehab in 2010 and was very open about her struggle with eating disorders and depression. She told Vanity Fair that through the photo shoot, she wanted readers to see that issues on body images can be overcome and it is always possible to be comfortable on who you are.
"I thought there was something incredible about the idea of no make-up whatsoever, no clothes and no retouching. I would have never thought that I would have ever got to a place in my life where I would have felt comfortable doing that," she said via Daily Life.
According to Newsday, this is not the first time that Lovato has done "nude" makeup photos. On her Instagram account, she has been seen using the hashtag #NMM, which stands for No Makeup Mondays, encouraging her Instagram followers to "show off their inner beauty."
“If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the past day, it’s that life is too short,” she said. “I’m about to launch an album that finally represents who I truly am. How do I embrace this new chapter in my life? How do I really walk the walk? What does it mean to be confident? It means letting go, being authentic, saying I don’t give a fuck and this is who I am. I want to show the side of me that’s real, that’s liberated, that’s free. What if we do a photo shoot where it’s totally raw? Super-sexy, but no makeup, no fancy lighting, no retouching, and no clothing. Let’s do it here, let’s do it now," Lovato concluded in the video for Vanity Fair.