Maria Paula says she’s tired of saying ‘no’ to Playboy: ‘Terrible exploitation’

Maria Paula has something in common with Malu Mader, Carolina Ferraz and Helena Ranaldi, besides her talent for acting. The former member of “Casseta & Planeta”, like these and other actresses, refused an invitation from Playboy magazine to pose nude.

And it wasn’t just one, he guarantees. “I received several proposals for heavy money”, he said, in an interview with the podcast “Inteligência Ltda. “I said: I don’t need that, I have a degree in Psychology. It was a proposal for money to buy an apartment. I said: I’m going to save up and buy an apartment. I gathered and bought it. And I bought a farm in Chapada. I did everything I wanted, without having to pose nude.”

Maria Paula, 53, said she is not against nudity, on the contrary. “My problem is that I don’t like exploration,” she said. “I’ve always been a libertarian. The name of my book is ‘Chronic Freedom’. What I liked most was going to the waterfall and getting naked, going to the nudist beach. I never had any problems with nudism.”

She criticizes the perverse and sexist culture that would have led many “incredible” women in Brazil to say yes to the magazine’s millionaire nods: “There was a glamorization of the exploitation of women’s image. There was this clowning, which was as if it were the top of a career of them making ‘Playboy’. It was a terrible exploitation, but at the time it was acceptable, like many other things were acceptable.”