Maren Morris defends her Playboy photo shoot: 'Country female sexuality in its realest form'

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Maren Morris is celebrating the way she showcases "country female sexuality" ahead of the release of her next album.

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The country music star, 31, shrugged off critics' comments in the caption of a topless Instagram photo posted Friday of her 2019 Playboy photo shoot.

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"Before moving to the next album era, I did @playboy in 2019 and got a lot of hate at the time,

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but I'm most proud that I showed country female sexuality in her (real) form," Morris wrote. Wrote.

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"We're finicky, we're messy and stretch-marked in the most beautiful way. Don't sleep on us.

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We tell the stories of your home in the most immaculate, grand street."

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Morris posed for Playboy's Summer 2019 "Gender and Sexuality" issue, in which she appeared topless wearing red pants, cowhide cowboy boots and a cowboy hat.

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Her photos faced some criticism online from commenters, who said she would "lose respect" from fans

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and that there was no need to "expose herself" to the world. She didn't stand up for it.

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