All the Times Models and Actors Bared it All Like Ranveer Singh to Break the Internet and Rigid Notions

What’s the connection between Ranveer Singh’s birthday suit bravado for an international magazine and Cosmopolitan? The shoot pays homage to Burt Reynold’s now-iconic photoshoot that appeared in a 1972 April issue of Cosmopolitan. The story goes that then editor, Helen Gurly Brown wanted Reynolds to be a part of the magazine’s first-ever male centrefold after his biggest film, Deliverance came out, and had pitched the idea as a “milestone in the sexual revolution.” She later said, “At the time, you know, men liked to look at a women naked. Well, nobody talked about it, but women liked to look at men naked. I did.” As expected, women loved it. However, Burt, on his end, had a complicated relationship with the shoot turning him into a sex symbol instead of a ‘serious actor’. He had expressed regret about the centrefold, and admitted he looked back at the time and himself as an ‘egomaniac’. 50 years from then to now, not much seems to have changed IRL given the jaw-dropping reactions and opinions minting more than the latest crypto drop in the market. Here, we’ve put together some iconic bare-it-all shoots that inspired, awed, and divided people across the board…

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