Rielle Hunter, John Edwards's baby momma, onetime lover and sex tape co-star, says a GQ photographer told her he'd capture her mostly from the neck up, but that doesn't explain why she wasn't wearing pants. The blonde posed on a bed, cradling her child. In one photo she's kneeling next to stuffed animals, wearing only a collared shirt; in another she's sprawled bare-bellied on tousled sheets. Hunter claims she "cried for two hours" upon seeing the pictures, but GQ says she's faking. "Rielle is a smart woman," said her interviewer. "She knows what she wore and what she was doing in the photo shoot."
The photos accompany a sprawling 10,000-word interview. "Did she say she thought they would be headshots?" asked GQ reporter Lisa DePaulo on "Good Morning America" today, according to the News. In response to Hunter's claim the magazine sent out a video of the photoshoot, in which Hunter is asked "You want to take a look at this?" GQ editor Jim Nelson chimed in "I have no idea how she feels about the photos, but I think you can see how comfortable she was at the shoot by watching the video."