Lea Michele Would Rather Strip For Gentlemen

Terry Richardson/GQ

I love this picture of Lea Michele and Dianna Agron. Much more than the now-infamous GQ cover shot of the Glee stars (eh, cliché much?). Only slightly more than the stampede of Louboutin stilettos the songstresses sport throughout the rest of the racy shoot with Terry Richardson. Lea’s hot pink heels on the cover are scrumptious.

Particularly, I love the expression on Lea’s face. It screams, quite literally, “Eat this, Streisand! That Funny Girl revival is MINE!” However, in the midst of all that tomfoolery, she perhaps forgot the statement she released following her tame shoot for PETA, the anti-fur organization also infamous for its near-naked ads of starlets—in the name of activism, of course.

The sometimes wide-eyed starlet, who loves to flaunt herself as a long-distance monogamist and a lover of red velvet vegan cupcakes, scoffed at the sexy shots and said, “I don’t know how they got me to do half the stuff I did!” She best be covering her tracks, considering that just months before she rather piously told the press, “I don’t think we need to see a billboard of me naked to know I am anti-fur.

Although I agree with the girl—I mean, we all get the metaphor, but does a gorge woman in her skivvies real embody the anti-fur sentiment best?—it seems a little hypocritical to then bare it all to fulfill the fantasies of rumored pedo/perv Richardson, who shot these girls in an overused school setting in the name of…what exactly? At least PETA has a purpose.

Then again, this stunt is kind of in keeping with Lea’s two-faced overachiever, Rachel Berry, on Glee. Perhaps this was the former Broadway star’s tiptoe into method acting. Or TPTB are casting a revival of Jekyll and Hyde, reinvented with a female lead. Damn, I just did a 180 and convinced myself that this was a skillful move on Lea’s part. You’re a sly fox, Berry.

Do you think the shots are racy? Fitting (they do play high school students, after all)? Blasé, like me? And what of Lea’s PETA ad? Sex sells, sweetie. If you’re going to unbutton up, do it for our furry friends.

XO, The Green Gamine