Pakistani actress Veena Malik has filed suit against men's magazine FHM, claiming they superimposed her body onto a nude body for the cover of a recent magazine. For the December cover of FHM India, Malik is seen nude with her arms covering her chest and a tattoo reading ISI on her bicep.
The fake tat is a reference to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, the clandestine intelligence agency that is frequently blamed for terror attacks in India. Malik admits that she agreed to the controversial fake tattoo but says that she was never photographed nude for the magazine.
"I agreed to a photo shoot and having an ISI tattoo in a humorous way but I did not have any nude photos. My pictures have been morphed," she told a Pakistani TV channel. According to the FHM India editor Kabeer Sharma, however, the shoot did take place and Malik is trying to backtrack:
"Maybe she is facing some kind of backlash, so maybe that's why she is denying it," he said. "We have not photoshopped or faked the cover. This is what she looks like, she has an amazing body."