A 16-year-old girl has made a controversial start to her modelling career, posing nude for the cover of a surfing magazine.

With only strategically placed limbs barely covering her modesty, Ella Rose Corby, of Kingscliff in northern NSW, has appeared naked on the cover of .

The November cover of Stab featuring Ella Rose Corby. Credit:Tweed Daily News

The move has been criticised in both modelling circles and in Ella's home town, with local MP Justine Elliot labelling it "inappropriate."

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But the magazine, which is known for its edginess and celebration of parties and sex, has defended the decision, claiming "the lines were blurred" and teenage girls such as Ella - who won the shoot in a modelling competition - were "moving into womanhood and they know it".

"You can leer at the 16-year-old as you would an adult woman, so long as you're ignorant," writer Mike Jennings said. "Once you become aware of their age you must look away."



The Tweed Daily News

