Radio host Bianca Dye has slammed an Aussie magazine for using a series of "untouched" nude photographs of Jennifer Hawkins to promote positive body image among women.
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"How is she a role model for body image if the average woman looks nothing like her?" Dye told the Nine Network's TODAY show this morning.
Hawkins, a former Miss Universe, appears without Photoshop airbrushing on the cover of Marie Claire this month.
Dye, a size 14, stripped naked for Madison magazine in November as part of a similar campaign.
"She's a lingerie model ... how brave is it for her to take her clothes off?" Dye said.
"You don't need airbrushing love, look at you.
"No wonder there are so many eating disorders out there."
Dye, who hosts the breakfast show on i98 FM in Wollongong, said she thought Hawkins was a "nice girl" and did not want to be seen as "bashing" her or the magazine.
But she admitted when she saw the magazine it was a "bit of a slap in the face to people like myself".
"Have we just taken 20 steps backwards?" she said.
Marie Claire editor Jackie Frank said the new shots of Hawkins would raise funds for the Butterfly Foundation, an eating disorder support group.
She said the shoot was inspired by a magazine survey that found only 23 percent of women were happy with their bodies.
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