What Drew said
Barrymore talked about the vulnerability she feels now being a parent and specifically referenced that as a young person, she was brought up and living in an environment that led her to be what she calls a “big exhibitionist.” Still, she views those infamous Playboy pics as art and looking back she does not judge the pictures or her decision to take them. She only bemoans the fact that, at the time, she couldn’t have known how the images would outlast the paper they were printed on.
Now, the host of her own talk show and a partner in the powerful Flower Films production company, Ms. Barrymore says she simply wants to protect her children the best way she knows how.
The world has changed
The advent of the Internet has surely allowed Drew (and many other celebrities) to either see salacious shots taken long ago surface on occasion or suffer a Cloud storage ‘leak.’ But we don’t view nudity and sexuality the same way we did back in 1995.
From a Kim Kardashian ‘breaking the net’ by showing a copious amount of derrière real estate in Paper Magazine, to all that we get across our various X feeds even when we don’t ask for it, to the cotton candy-sexuality displayed across Cardi B's WAP video, sporting a controversy that seems like so much pre-pandemic noise (like the song or not) it could be argued that maybe we keep evolving over this issue. Yes, there are still those websites whose sole purpose is to post intimate pictures stolen from some celeb’s online account or propagate revenge porn. But beyond an occasional prurient thrill, as a collective culture, do we care about seeing skin these days?
