Actress Karla Souza refuses to wear lingerie for GQ cover, magazine compromises by suggesting bikini

The How To Get Away With Murder actress said she wanted the shoot to be 'sophisticated'

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How To Get Away With Murder actress Karla Souza said that she refused to appear on the cover of GQ Mexico in a bra and underwear as she wanted to be sophisticated - but the magazine only compromised by letting her wear a bikini.

Souza said the proposed shoot involved a “bra and panties on a bed” scenario, but she felt uncomfortable doing it.

“I wanted sophisticated, fancy, nice and beautiful and sexy, but not that,” she told E! Online.

She explains that she told the magazine she wouldn’t appear wearing so little - and it took a year for them to agree to her idea of wearing bathing suits and “things I felt more comfortable in”

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Souza, who plays Laura Castillo in the ABC murder drama, said a lot of magazines in Mexico feature fully naked women and several other actresses had opted to bear all.

“[GQ] said hat’s what sells, but then they told me my issue sold,” she said.

She admitted that she had been nervous about doing the shoot after being photoshopped to the extremes on a previous shoot three years ago.

“[The other magazine] gave me boobs that I don’t have, a butt that I don’t have and a waist that I don’t have. I was appalled. It took me three years to ever be in a bikini again.”