Lesbian model in nude pic scandal

OOPS: Nude photos taken by a former boyfriend have come back to haunt aspiring model Lola Van Vorst.

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Australia's Next Top Model quest is embroiled in a nude photo scandal involving one of the show's favourite contestants.

Photographs have surfaced of Sydney model Lola Van Vorst, 21, posing nude and gazing seductively at the camera. Famous magazine bought the shots from a photo agency and will publish them tomorrow.

The images - taken by a former lover - are certain to rock the top-rating Australian series, whose audience is mainly teenage girls.

Van Vorst, one of six remaining finalists, said a former boyfriend took the photographs a year ago while testing a new digital camera.

"He asked if he could take some photos of me … I said yes, not even thinking they could possibly come back to haunt me one day," she said. "Although I'm not ashamed of the photos, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't worried about them potentially damaging my career."

She was bracing for the emergence of racier photos taken at the same session.

"There's another one of me against a wall which is a full-body shot," she said. "It's not nice to know there are people out there willing to cash in on my fame and trying to hurt me.

"What I have learnt is that there are a lot of creeps out there willing to take advantage of you when you least expect it."

Van Vorst revealed to The Sun-Herald last month that she was gay, but said she was concerned about coming out because she had not yet told her mother.

In the magazine article, she confirmed her sexuality, saying she first realised she was gay in year 11. She added that a kiss with MTV VJ and close friend Ruby Rose, 23, at a Sydney nightclub earlier this year was one of her best ever.

Van Vorst said she was now in a committed relationship with an unnamed woman and "very, very happy".

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