Nude Britney shot deemed subway-suitable
24/08/2006 - 13:45:50A poster showing Britney Spears nude and pregnant will be displayed on Tokyo's subway system, despite an earlier decision to ban the advert.
Officials initially claimed the photo, which appears on the cover of Harper's Bazaar magazine, was "overly stimulating" for public display.
They now say they understand the intention is to portray a happy mother, rather than to be sexually explicit. The image had appeared in the magazine's August edition in the US.
They had agreed to display a version of the promotional poster in which everything below the American pop star's elbow is masked. The censored version would have contained a statement reading: "We apologise for hiding part of a beautiful image of a mother-to-be."
