Playboy may be done with nudes, but GQ clearly isn’t. Amber Rose stripped down for a naked photo shoot with the magazine for its November issue, showing off her famous curves while posing in nothing more than a pair of shiny black patent stilettos.
The racy picture shows the model, 32, kneeling on what looks to be a gold mirrored box. She covers her breast with her arm while looking sultrily over her tattooed shoulder at the camera.
In the accompanying interview, Rose dares to bare more than just skin, opening up about everything from her feud with the Kardashians to her relationship with ex-boyfriend Kanye West, who’s now married to and expecting his second child with Kim Kardashian.
The “Walk of No Shame” activist first got into it with the famed reality TV family back in February, when she criticized Tyga for dating a then-underage Kylie Jenner. Her comments — made during a radio interview on The Breakfast Club — drew the ire of Kylie’s older half-sister Khloe Kardashian, who quickly hit back by taking a dig at Rose’s past as a stripper.
“I said [to Khloe], ‘Your sister [Kylie] has a career because your other sister [Kim] made a sex tape and put the whole family on.’ I think it’s f–king awesome that she did a sex tape and made millions of dollars for her family,” Rose recalled. “But let’s not forget where we came from. Because I didn’t.”
In fact, Rose remembers her days as a stripper fondly. “Best f–king time of my life,” she told GQ. “I’m not going to say young girls should go be dancers. But that was my journey, and I don’t regret it.”
Rose thinks Kim might have a similar attitude about her sex tape with ex-boyfriend Ray J. “She probably had a f–king blast. And guess what? At the time she was in love with that guy,” the How to Be a Bad Bitch author said. “So don’t think you’re better than me, because we’ve all had trials and tribulations.”
Rose’s trials, in fact, inspired her to start the SlutWalk movement, which aims to fight sexual violence, victim blaming, derogatory labels, and gender inequality.
“As a woman, it’s like…f–k! You have to act like a nun for a guy to respect you,” she explained to GQ. “And even if you do wait to have sex and you’re very comfortable and you do exactly what you want to do in that moment, you still have to be very careful because you don’t want to be looked at as a ho. How do you win? You do exactly what you want to do. And if it doesn’t work out, then he’s just not meant for you.”
Case in point: West, who dated Rose before he fell in love with Kim. Asked if she ever listens to the 2010 album he wrote about their relationship, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, the single mom (to son Sebastian, 2, with ex Wiz Khalifa) replied, “Never, ever, ever. It’s just not for me.”
“Don’t get me wrong. I’ll hear songs and I’m like, ‘Oh, he said that about me.’ No one knows what he’s talking about but me and him,” she added. “People can’t decipher. They’ll be like, ‘That’s a cool song,’ and I’m like, ‘That happened to us when we were together.’ Obviously I know he’s talking to me through music.”
