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So what is the real story behind those racy photos of MTV reality TV series "The Hills" star Audrina Patridge? Who leaked the photos and whose idea was it for the would be actress to strip down and pose in the buff? In Touch Weekly notes that a slew of provocative photographs hit right as the series premiered this week and they threatened to hurt Audrina Patridge's image on the show as a good girl.

Photographer Speaks on Audrina Patridge (Image: Wenn)

But that might not be such a bad thing. Although Audrina, 22, denies she was behind the leak, posting a message on her blog that the photos were released without her consent, insiders say she’s not so innocent. “She has always wanted to be that sexy girl,” an old friend tells In Touch.


“She used to work at Hooters before she moved to LA. Her mom found out and made her quit.” She certainly is the sexy girl on the show now. When the story first hit about the photos (the link is safe but it will follow through to the in the buff pictures) many believe that Audrina was the one behind the leak.

On her MySpace page, Audrina says the photos – in which she poses in a Catholic schoolgirl skirt, and in a bathtub wearing nothing but a cowboy hat, among other setups – were “taken when I was just out of high school and beginning to model. I intended them to be artistic and not in any was provocative.” She says, adding that although she’s “not ashamed” of the pics, she was “naïve, overly trusting of people and inexperienced” when they were shot.


Although Audrina says on her blog that the photo shoot was five years ago, in 2003, Amber Slade, the photographer who did the session, tells In Touch that it was in 2005. And she adds that Audrina was anything but naïve during the shoot.

“She was the one who approached me about doing the glamour shots,” Slade tell In Touch. “It was completely her idea. She was determined to go ahead with it, even though she was warned to wait and see how her modeling went before doing topless stuff.”