GQ: The Massive Misstep

Okay, so here we go again with an inappropriate magazine cover. Though this story is what some might call old news....

GQ Magazine has selected, Rielle Hunter, the mistress of former presidential candidate John Edwards, to cover their most recent issue. What makes the mother of John Edwards' love child an appealing cover girl to GQ readers is something I may never know, but I digress.

Sources say that she was "repulsed" by the spread and cried for hours when she saw it. Now, video footage of the photo shoot showed Ms. Hunter taking the photographer's direction and reviewing the shots with no obvious objection. In a statement made to NBC News, Ms. Hunter stated

I understood what photos were being taken. It was my mistake to pose for them given I had no photo control or approval. I also posed for many photos that I thought were more appropriate for the content of the interview. Obviously I really wish they had decided to use those. I stand by this interview and would give the exact same answers under oath.

The photo shoot just screams, "Look at me, look at me!" Such cries for attention are unattractive and, clearly, very desperate attempts at milking this...situation for all it's worth when your focus should really be on your child and distancing yourself from such public displays.

In my opinion, Ms. Hunter doesn't look very natural in the photos and she didn't look especially comfortable in the footage.

Whether her apparent discomfort was with being photographed or with being photographed in such a sensual way, I don't know the answer to that, but I imagine that she was so "repulsed" by the spread because it is a very unflattering display.

While I respect her statement of admission that the spread was a show of poor judgment on her part, the photo shoot simply was not a success and, going forward, she should refrain from any such public displays of herself.

NEXT!!