A 41-year-old KMT legislator posed for Playboy's Chinese-language edition this month, but kept her clothes on, saying she will not bare all until she is 60.
"I'll pose nude at the age of 60 when I'm no longer a politician and don't have to worry about what my constituents will think," Yu Yueh-hsia (
TAIPEI TIMES FILE PHOTO
"Taiwanese women are beautiful in our own way. We may not be tall, but we have smooth skin. We don't have freckles," said Yu, who weighs about 55kg and stands 153cm tall.
Yu said Playboy tried for two years to entice her to pose nude. She finally agreed to an interview only after being persuaded by her 19-year-old daughter.
This month's edition devotes 10 pages to the wide-ranging interview with Yu, which includes photographs of her with her two children and aides.
In one of the pictures, she is dressed in a low-cut strapless evening gown, reclining on a sofa and looking up.
In the interview with Playboy, Yu said she used to watch Taiwanese puppet shows followed by Japanese pornographic videos while waiting for her husband, from whom she is now divorced, to come home.
Yu, who is extremely popular at the grassroots level, won the most votes in the Dec. 1 legislative elections in Changhua.
She told Playboy that if asked to join the Cabinet, she would want the defense portfolio because she likes soldiers. "I feel they're like me -- straightforward and honest."
Yu drew laughter at a meeting of the KMT last year when she asked party Chairman Lien Chan (
"There are not many cases of Taiwan women doing well in politics," political scientist Chou Yu-shan said.
"In Yu Yueh-hsia's case, many consider her a man and she needed to show her feminine side."
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