Rielle Hunter furious to learn pictures were taken during photo shoot

Image by John Kratz via Flickr

Rielle Hunter says she is outraged that GQ took pictures of her during a photo shoot during which she posed semi-nude.

“They never told me there would be a camera,” the fertile mistress of former vice presidential candidate John Edwards told Barbara Walters in a tearful telephone call yesterday. “They just said I’d be made up and pampered and treated like a queen while I vamped around and looked beautiful.”

When the magazine published a layout of Hunter shown in provocative poses and partially unclothed in its April issue, she was “repulsed,” she told Walters.

“I feel betrayed and used,” Hunter reportedly said. “I was just cavorting innocently, having fun. Had I known that the man holding a rectangular device that he kept pointing at me was a photographer, I never would have agreed to the shoot.”

“I remember at one point I asked, ‘What is that clicking noise?’” said Hunter. “He said, ‘Oh, don’t worry about that, honey,’ so I didn’t. In retrospect, I guess I was naïve but it wasn’t right for the bastard to trick me that way.”

Hunter told reporters she called Walters to complain about her treatment by the magazine after Oprah Winfrey declined to take her call. Walters taped the call and immediately alerted the media, as is her sworn duty.

“I am a celebrity and it is wrong to make me feel bad,” Hunter told her, holding back a sob. “I certainly hope the media will treat me more respectfully next week when I auction off John’s and my baby on eBay.”