Macpherson explains nude photo tactic

SYDNEY, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Australian model Elle Macpherson says she made a business decision years ago she would control what nude photos of herself appeared in the media.

Macpherson told The Telegraph that shortly after she appeared naked in the 1994 film "Sirens," newspapers pestered her former boyfriends and photographers for other sexy images of her. She then posed for her own photos so the illegally obtained ones wouldn't be as valuable.

"I said: 'OK, you want naked? I'll give you naked -- but on my terms,'" she told the Telegraph this week.

Macpherson said she was determined not to let other people profit from her beauty or talent more than she did, so she decided to branch out and start her own lines of beauty products and lingerie.

"I recognized that working for a business in which I did not have a profit share was not attractive," Adelaide Now quoted Macpherson as saying.