It was one of the defining images of the 1960s – a naked Christine Keeler sitting astride a turned-about plywood chair.
Taken in May 1963, when she was 21 and facing the peak of public attention over her affair with married Tory politician John Profumo, it helped cement the showgirl’s notoriety.
And now, in homage to the famous snap, superstar Rihanna has recreated the risque pose in a skimpy mini dress for the April issue of Harper’s Bazaar UK.
In a rare interview, the Barbadian celebrity addressed the challenges of juggling her work with her two young children, RZA, two, and Riot, one.
“Every decision I make revolves around them, but everything that I do that I love robs me from them,” the 37-year-old musician admitted.
“And even when you show up there, it’s not 100 per cent because there’s something else on the wheel. It’s actually given me a lot more self-guilt.”
She shares both sons with her boyfriend, rapper A$AP Rocky, who was on Tuesday acquitted of firing a gun at a former friend in 2021.
The Grammy award-winner and founder of beauty range Fenty also spoke candidly about the cultural dislocation she experienced in the early years of her career when she left the Caribbean for the US at the age of 16 to launch her career as a pop star.
“I left home as a teenager, and I left everything I knew: my family, my friends, my food, my culture. And I came to a big city by myself, and the only option for me was to win. I knew that I had to win.
“The suffering that I felt not being a part of anything that I knew, there was only one way to make that worth it, because I knew that my family was suffering without me too.
“And so I was like, “’This has to pay off.’ And that was my fight, my goal, my everything. Every single day.”