Sabrina Carpenter nude on Rolling Stone cover amid oversexualization flak
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Sabrina Carpenter bared all for her latest magazine cover, despite criticism that her image is too sexual.
The pop star, 26, appears nude for Rolling Stone‘s Summer Issue, published on Thursday. Leaving little to the imagination, she was photographed by famed fashion photographer David LaChapelle while kneeling down on the floor wearing nothing but thigh-high socks and her flowing long blond hair.
The inside images show Carpenter wearing lacy lingerie looks.
In the article, the former Disney Channel star told senior music writer Angie Martoccio she notices constantly the scrutiny women in pop culture confront.
“I don’t want to be pessimistic, but I truly feel like I’ve never lived in a time where women have been picked apart more, and scrutinized in every capacity,” she said. “I’m not just talking about me. I’m talking about every female artist that is making art right now. … We’re in such a weird time where you would think it’s girl power, and women supporting women, but in reality, the second you see a picture of someone wearing a dress on a carpet, you have to say everything mean about it in the first 30 seconds that you see it.”
As recent as her 2025 Met Gala red carpet appearance in May, the “Espresso” singer encountered criticism on social media about her pantless Louis Vuitton look.
“Damn I f–ed up,” she playfully replied to an X user’s comments.
The day before the Rolling Stone cover’s release, Carpenter announced her new album, “Man’s Best Friend,” on social media. The accompanying artwork shows the singer on her knees in front of a man who is holding her hair in his hand.
On Thursday, Glasgow Women’s Aid, an advocacy group for domestic abuse survivors, read Carpenter the riot act on Instagram calling the album cover “regressive,” and stating it evokes “tired tropes that reduce women to pets, props, and possessions and promote an element of violence and control.”
British outlet The Telegraph also ripped the project, stating that the “over-sexed, degrading new album cover has gone too far.”
Poppie Platt, the article’s author, says Carpenter has many young fans and called the marketing effort “troubling” — comparing it to TikTok trends that promote subservience to men such as the “trad-wife” aesthetic.
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