Demi Moore: "I was so brave"

Demi Moore has said that she was "so brave" to pose naked while she was pregnant for the cover of Vanity Fair in 1991.

The iconic photograph taken by Annie Leibovitz has been much-imitated since, with Myleene Klass striking a similar pose for the front of Glamour as recently as 2007.

Talking about the shot, Moore told Elle: "I was brave. I was so brave! I had no sense of the impact it would have. I just wanted to push the boundaries.

"When I sad things like, 'I want it all', that wasn't coming from a place of greed. It was coming from a desire for balance."

She added: "I'm a risk taker. I'm not ashamed of that. It always came from a true place within me, though.

"Where it got misconstrued was in the sense that I felt I had to prove something and needed to have my value validated from the outside.

"At the same time, I feel proud if I have been able to make a difference in how women view themselves."