All eyes are on Keri Hilson, who strips down wearing only her birthday suit in a new photo shoot for Allure magazine. The skin-bearing image, photographed by Patrick Demarchelier, appears in the magazine’s annual Body Issue.

“We do a lot of things to seek validation: I have to get more expensive handbags or fake lashes or fake b****,” explained the “Pretty Girl Rock” singer. “This shoot was about dropping all that. It’s so empowering to embrace my insecurities.”

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