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Monica Bellucci: Why I Posed Naked 2007-01-01

Monica Bellucci has explained the reasons behind her decision that made her choose to appear nude and prenant on the cover of Vanity Fair.

Ms Bellucci posed pregnant and nude on the cover of the new issue of Italian Vanity Fair as a protest against the new Italian law, which restricts in-vitro fertilization to married couples and prohibits the use of donor sperm.

In a report in the New York Post she says that religious and ethical dogmas have prevailed upon common sense, the beautiful 39 year old star of The Matrix Reloaded and Passion of Christ, was photographed by Fabrizio Ferri, went on to say this was the kind of legal obstacle that is not so different from the physical limitations that women have long endured.

Monica further said that in Muslim countries women are forced to cover their heads and keep silent. In Italy, they are prevented from asking for the help of science to become mothers, unless they are married.

Bellucci explained she decided to become a mother because she was tired of her body and that she found it ridiculous that her breasts and stomach should still be the same as they were when she was 18 and even though she had lived and changed, her body had not. It was then she realized that her breasts did not just exist to fill evening gowns, the time had come for them to fulfill their true destiny.