The Kentucky hunter who ignited widespread outrage with photos posing with the body of a rare black giraffe says she’s “proud” of her trophy kill — which by the way, made fabulous pillows and tasted “delicious.”

“It’s a hobby, it’s something that I love to do,” Tess Thompson Talley told “CBS This Morning” in a Friday interview. “I am proud to hunt, and I am proud of that giraffe.”

Her controversial images from a jaunt to South Africa went viral last June, showing her standing proudly along the dead giraffe. In the since-deleted Facebook post, Talley wrote that the rare animal was her “dream hunt” and felt “blessed to be able to get 2000 lb.s of meat from him.”

Talley said she turned the giraffe into a gun case along with decorative pillows, which she says “everybody loves.”

And the creature’s meat was tasty too, she insisted.

“He was delicious,” she told CBS. “He really was. Not only was he beautiful and majestic, he was good.”

Despite the backlash, Talley defended the kill, which she says was part of a “conservation hunt.”

“We are preserving the wildlife,” Talley claimed to CBS. “We are managing herds. We are managing numbers of wildlife. We are hunters, and we are proud to be hunters.”

While she could donate to conservation charities, Talley said she “would rather do what I love to do, rather than just give a lump sum of cash somewhere and not know particularly where that is going.”

Talley said she’s undeterred, will go on more trophy hunting trips — and bring her camera with her.

“We all take pictures with our harvest,” Talley said. “It’s what we’ve all always done.”