Hot News: Keira Knightley: topless shoot was Photoshop protest

'Anyone calling these shots 'sexy' is horribly, horribly misguided,' she wrote. 'To me, it's clear that Keira hasn't got her tits out for the purpose of male titillation. Powerful, yes. Strong, yes. Feminist, absolutely. X-rated? Not even close.'

Knightley had a particularly public battle with Photoshop in 2004, when her chest was digitally enlarged for the poster of King Arthur. At the time, Knightley said that she had actually lost her bosom through the strenuous preparation for the role. The studio, to much ridicule, put it back in again, with interest.

In 2006, Knightley posed naked for the cover of Vanity Fair magazine with Scarlett Johansson and a fully-clothed Tom Ford, the fashion designer, to emphasise the contrasting demands fame made on men and women's sexuality.

^{Knightley in Interview magazine, and right: her retouched poster for King Arthur (Patrick Demarchelier/Interview)}

'I think women's bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame,' she told The Times. 'It's much easier to take a picture of somebody without a shape; it simply is. Whereas actually you need tremendous skill to be able get a woman's shape and make it look like it does in life, which is always beautiful. But our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape.'

Knightley is next starring opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game, in which she plays Enigma machine creator Alan Turing's colleague and fiancée, Joan Clarke.

It was announced last month that she will make her Broadway debut next October in an adaptation of Thérèse Raquin.

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