Leaked photos of Hills star Audrina Patridge topless created quite the buzz when they splashed online early Wednesday morning. The shapely Reality Television starlet says she took them when she was young but they were obviously part of an attempted photo shoot, they aren't the usual "Girls Gone Wild" type party photos so what is the story behind the story?

Audrina Patridge Topless Photos Rejected by Playboy (Image: Wenn)

The New York Post has just a bit of that and notes that just in time for The Hills' season premiere on March 24, nude photographs of Lauren Conrad's BFF have hit the Web. Why now? Publicity comes to mind, but like any good infomercial or in this case reality TV show on MTV there's more.


Page Six reports: "The 22-year-old reality star, who was caught up in a rumored sex tape scandal last year, was so desperate to spin her privileged California childhood into fame and fortune that she had a photographer snap the racy photos when she was 19 years old to submit to Playboy, which the lad mag did not publish."

Audrina tried to make the most of her precocious teen image with a topless Catholic school girl look and also posed completely in the buff in what we imagine is her parents' swimming pool.