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"The Naked Truth: 4 Celebrities Go Nude for Allure\\nThe real story of how Keri Hilson, Bridget Moynahan, Ashley Tisdale, and Kaley Cuoco prepped for our shoot&amp;#8212;and why they decided to strip down.\\nBefore all her hit songs, Hilson worked behind the scenes as a successful songwriter. Stepping out of the background was not as effortless as Hilson, 28, now makes it look. \\\"The transition to being in front of the camera was very, very difficult,\\\" she says. \\\"Everyone has their idea of what you should look like. 'You need to get into the gym.' 'You need to wear less clothes.' 'Wear dresses and skirts.' 'Put a weave in.' 'Cut your hair.' 'Color your hair.' There are so many ways that others tug at you.\\\" To Hilson, posing naked stripped her back down to her real self. \\\"We do a lot of things to seek validation: I have to get more expensive handbags or fake lashes or fake boobs. This shoot was about dropping all that.\\\"\\nOn Moynahan's mind in this picture: \\\"Mostly whether things were getting squashed in the wrong way,\\\" she says. The 40-year-old *Blue Bloods* actress was confident about some things. \\\"You know you're going to have good lighting and positioning to help your body out.\\\" In the real world, though, Moynahan says, \\\"I never roam around in bikinis, and I am only naked in the privacy of my own home. In this electronic age, it's not safe to be naked anywhere else, even in locker rooms.\\\" But her hesitation isn't due to a lack of confidence. \\\"I've been in the business a long time, so it didn't really faze me. I was completely comfortable.\\\"\\nTisdale brought her mother to her nude shoot. \\\"I've always wanted to be sure my parents approve of what I do,\\\" she says. \\\"Even with my tattoos, my mom went with me. The 'believe' tattoo is because my mom always told me to believe.\\\" The *High School Musical* and *Hellcats* actress does six workouts a week, rotating a boot-camp class, cardio, strength training, and Spinning, but disrobing was actually much less about showing off her hard-earned shape than it was about growing up. \\\"I'm 25, almost 26, but people think of me as much younger because I look young,\\\" she says. \\\"Being in this shoot was me saying, 'I'm not just the young girl everybody thinks I am. I'm actually a woman.'\\\"\\nCuoco confesses, \\\"I have not told my family about this, and I'll tell you why: Until they see the photos, they won't understand. All a mother or father hears is the word 'naked.' When I told my mom about the shoot, I left out the part about taking my clothes off.\\\" The 25-year-old star of *The Big Bang Theory* says of her preparation for the shoot, \\\"My obsession is yoga, so I was already yogi-ing it every day,\\\" she says. \\\"And I did veggies, raw food, and egg whites. So boring!\\\" She was surprised by her own lack of shyness. \\\"I was way more excited than I ever thought I would be. Which made me realize, I'm more comfortable in my own skin than I thought.\\\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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