Rachel Dolezal went to great lengths to appear every inch a black person.

And these salacious new images from a glamour shoot in 2012 are testament to that effort.

Wearing nothing but a gold feather headdress and knee-length braids, the former NAACP director reclines among bark, trees and leaves to reveal glimpses of honey-toned skin all over her body.

It was meant to be 'au naturelle'.

But we now know the look was far from authentic.

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All-over tan: Rachel Dolezal stripped for this 2012 shoot, seemingly proving she was dark-skinned all over

Not sure natural: It has since emerged she allegedly gets regular spray tans, worth $60 a month, at a salon

Born with freckled ivory skin, Dolezal's black image today is the product of regular spray tans - 'medium' Mystic Spray from Palm Beach Tan in Spokane, Washington, it is claimed.

The treatment, which costs $60 a month for unlimited top-ups, ensures a 'long-lasting tan' all over the body. Customers stand naked in a booth before being sprayed from every angle.

Her silky blonde hair has been replaced by a weave, Dolezal finally admitted on Tuesday, boasting that she can fashion it into braids, dreads, and tight curls.

Since resigning as leader of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP, she has admitted to engaging in 'creative non-fiction' with her image.

'I feel like there have been moments of some level of creative nonfiction, where I have had to justify or explain the timeline of the events of my life so that they make sense to others,' she told Savannah Guthrie on NBC's TODAY show.

However, she insists that she identifies as African American.

'I definitely am not white,' she told Guthrie. 'Nothing about being white describes who I am,' she said adding that 'on a level of values, lived experience currently, that’s the answer. That’s the accurate answer from my truth.'

Speaking to NBC BLK this week, the 37-year-old claimed she knows what it means to be black has been subject to racism in airports, with security guards searching her hair.

'What it means to go there experientially…It’s, you know, having your hair searched at TSA. It’s actually living in a space where I’m seen as black, or mixed, or whatever, light-skinned,' she said in the segment released online.

Though Dolezal has admitted to wearing a weave, she insists she is black because of her life experiences

Defiant: She has refused to apologize for lying, but admitted to 'creative nonfiction' with her image

Not natural? Dolezal claims she is naturally black because she began to identify as black when she was five

The semi-naked pictures were taken in 2012, when Dolezal was already involved in civil rights activism

In an apparent bid to justify the years of lying, she told the TODAY show that she was five years old when she started using brown crayons to draw pictures of herself in kindergarten.

'I would draw self-portraits with a brown crayon instead of the peach crayon. That was how I was portraying myself.'

Her white parents, Larry and Ruthanne Dolezal, claim the transformation wasn't until her 20s or 30s.

However, Dolezal dismissed their statements, and said she is not 100 per cent certain she is their biological daughter. Mr and Mrs Dolezal have demanded a DNA test to prove her white heritage.

In a further development to Dolezal's life story, she revealed she is bisexual - as she claimed she cried reading Caitlyn Jenner's story of isolation in Vanity Fair.

'Just yesterday I finally had a chance to read Caitlyn Jenner's piece in the magazine and I cried,' Dolezal told Savannah Guthrie. 'I resonated with some of the themes of isolation, of being misunderstood.'

But as Dolezal toured the networks to explain herself, details of her dual identity have been laid bare: that she has filed sexual assault claims against her brother and ex-husband, and that she violated ethics rules in her role as Spokane's NAACP chapter leader.

Daily Mail Online exclusively revealed on Wednesday that Dolezal has been engaged in bitter legal disputes with her ex-husband and brother, over claims of sexual harassment.

Confusion: Other than some 'faint traces' of Native American blood, Ruthanne Dolezal's mother told reporters the family background is Czech, Swedish and German. She is pictured left and right as a girl

Emotional: Rachel Dolezal became tearful as she said that she understood Caitlyn Jenner's feelings of isolation and being misunderstood during an interview that aired on Wednesday morning

Tearful: She wipes away her tears during the interview with NBC's Savannah Guthrie

Seductive: Rachel Dolezal posed for this selection of glamourous shots in Washington state in 2012

Poser: Since the photos were taken, it has emerged that she has been lying about her ethnicity

Confident: She posed for the pictures shortly before she became engaged - but later called off the wedding

Glamorous: At the time the photos were taken, Dolezal had been lying about her identity for several years

Legal documents read by the Mail reveal she once accused her ex-husband of forcing her to take part in a homemade sex tape.

The lurid claim was one of a raft of damaging accusations she leveled at Moore, 37, in a bid to deny him access to their young son Franklin.

Dolezal admitted to appearing in the video with Moore but insisted it was against her will. Moore denied the allegations.

Montana-born Dolezal married the African American physical therapist in March 2000 but their marriage ended five years later in a bitter court battle.

Race faker Rachel demanded a divorce, claiming in court documents seen by DailyMail.com that she suffered 'years' of 'physical, emotional, sexual and verbal abuse' at his hands. Moore has denied her claims.

Dolezal's evidence referred to 'video tape made at the request of the defendant which required the plaintiff to participate in sexual acts with the defendant on tape against the plaintiff's desires'.

She also claimed to have suffered 'pushing, hair pulling and forcible restraint', according to the papers filed in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, where Moore still lives.

His former flame furthermore accused him of being a danger to their son Franklin. The papers reveal that when the boy came home for a visit to his father's home in 2005 with a bruise on his face, Dolezal immediately reported Moore to the police.

Moore insisted, however, that the child had fallen accidentally, and police never charged him.

The divorce was finalized in April 2005 and the court agreed Moore was a responsible dad who posed no threat to his son, awarding him joint custody of Franklin, who is now 13.

It has also emerged, in documents read by TMZ, that Dolezal previously accused her older brother of of throwing her to the ground, sexually assaulting her and forcing her to look at nude photos.

Joshua Dolezal, 39, faces four felony counts of sexual abuse and court documents from that case have revealed the claims made by his biological sister.

She accused her brother, who was about 16 or 17, of throwing her to the ground and pulling up her shirt before touching her in 1991, TMZ reported. Rachel is two years younger than her brother.

He then allegedly showed her photos of topless African women in a copy of National Geographic and told her he pleasured himself and 'got off' while looking at them.

Divorce battle: Rachel Dolezal, posing in a glamour shot from 2012, and her ex Kevin Moore, who is seen in this exclusive picture for the first time since their wedding photo was made public

Wedding day: Dolezal and Moore got married in 2000 but the couple split up just five years later

Family: The couple, who divorced in 2004, went on to have one son together, Franklin

Former fiance: She also got engaged to a Mississippi musician, Maurice Turner, pictured, in 2012

Split: But the couple, who lived thousands of miles apart, split up just two months after he gave her this ring

On Wednesday, the Spokane city council president announced that Dolezal violated ethics rules while heading a police oversight commission.

Investigators found that Dolezal, who leads the Office of Police Ombudsman Commission, publicly named citizens who made complaints against cops - in violation of a confidentiality agreement - according to a new report released on Wednesday.

'There were multiple occasions at open public meetings, that were recorded, where names of complainants were discussed in the open and they should have been confidential,' City Council President Ben Stuckart said.

She also engaged in 'workplace harassment', he said, but he did not elaborate on the allegations.

The allegations of ethics violations against Dolezal, as well as two other commission members, stem from the findings of two independent investigators hired by Spokane to probe an April 16 whistleblower complaint by a city employee. The report was published on Wednesday.