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Debra Messing, Maria Menounos and More Pose in the Buff for Allure 2012

Leslie Bibb, Maria Menounos, Debra Messing, Taraji P. Henson, and Morena Baccarin talk about their favorite body parts and how they prepped for our nude shoot.

Released on 04/09/2012

Transcript

I just did a nude shoot, I just was buck-naked

for Allure.

(upbeat music)

I feel really accomplished right now because it took

a lot of courage for me who can barely take off

her clothes in front of a doctor, to do this.

I took off my robe and let it all hang out.

When I was walking out the door,

I'm like, there's nothing to prepare for this,

I'm just stripping my clothes down, this is weird.

I did notice that when I looked down,

my heart was like, I could see my heart beating,

I was like, oh you must be nervous because your heart

is literally going thump-thump-thump.

Right before I had to go in and drop my towel,

I decided I needed a little liquid help,

so I had a sip of Belvedere.

As long as its all still looking good

and not falling and you know, sagging, I'll be nude,

I'll take nude shots.

As long as people want to see me naked, I'm here.

(upbeat music)

Haven't told my family, but I will.

I like to surprise them, to hear what they have to say.

Actually, I did tell my mom and she's like,

oh you go, girl.

My mom used to lay out naked, so I was always like

as a kid like, Mother, can you put some clothes on?

And she's like, Oh, you look so pretty.

I think I'll call my boyfriend.

My boyfriend or my publicist, one of the two.

Which, my publicist is my gay boyfriend anyway.

I told some friends mostly because I've been starving

myself for three weeks.

So when they asked me to go out to dinner,

I had to prefix by saying, preface it by saying,

I'm actually not eating right now.

For Parenthood issue,

I did my juice-cleanse for three days.

I went on the juice-cleanse which I do

and let me tell you, I was angry.

My boyfriend was like, Ugh, thank God I'm not with you

right now 'cause you're not nice on the juice cleanse,

'cause you're so hungry and you get hostile.

What part of my body do I enjoy?

This is gonna sound so weird,

but I really like my wrists.

I like my nose.

I like my collarbone and shoulders.

I would always say my stomach is my favorite feature

'cause it's strong and it's hard and I always have

people punch me in the stomach.

I really like my butt.

China, my butt was a hit, when I was over there

filming Karate Kid, the crew was asked

who's your favorite person on the set,

who's your favorite female,

and I thought they were gonna say Jada Pinkett,

and they were like Taraji's butt.

Yeah, my butt was quite famous over in Beijing.

I had the opportunity to show up and take off my clothes

and be a 100% me.

And that was a challenge, but something that I welcomed.

In an ideal world, I will have a photograph

that is out there that isn't perfect.

That doesn't fulfill the preconceived ideas

of what a Hollywood actress looks like

and that will still be beautiful in its own way.

You know, you have women of different shapes,

different sizes, doing this, different body types.

I think that's the whole thing, is to take you out

of your comfort zone and be comfortable.

I thought about what I was gonna say today

because part of me wanted to say, I don't diet,

but I do and I work really hard to look the way that I look.

And I think that that's comforting

for women to know the truth.

I feel good, I like to show, it's a good thing

when you can show women to love the skin that they're in.

And just be comfortable with that, with what God gave you.