Nelly Furtado Turns Down Offer To Pose For Playboy

It's with heavy hearts that we report that Nelly Furtado won't be baring anything — be it pubis strategically darkened via deft lighting or perfectly photoshopped nipples — for Playboy.

Furtado recently told MTV that she had turned down an offer to be photographed for the men's magazine, telling the channel that she "would like to save a little bit for the bedroom. It's something to be preserved a little bit for myself."

Furtado says she was "offered half a million dollars to pose fully clothed."

The maneating promiscuous girl left the door open for a future where her netherbits may get to share the same level of visibility as Paris Hilton's perpetually paparazzied vajay.

Defining a Playboy shoot as a "vanity thing, an egotistical thing," Furtado went on to say, "It's not to say that I would never do it. It's intriguing, it's very tempting. It's got to be under the right terms. We will see what happens."

Furtado isn't the only musician to take a pass on Playboy in recent years. Sometimes-New Pornographer Neko Case was offered, and turned down, the chance to pose for the mag after she won an online poll to determine the hottest woman in indie rock. Case did, however, luridly bear her nipples back in 2000 for the cover of Toronto alternative weekly, Now.

If Furtado decides to change her mind and flash some furry horse collar, she'd be joining an illustrious list that includes Madonna (September 1985), Samantha Fox (February 1989), Nancy Sinatra (May 1995), Geri Halliwell (May 1998), Belinda Carlisle (August 2001), Tiffany (April 2002), Carnie Wilson (Aug. 2003), Deborah Gibson (March 2005) and Jacko's sister, the subject of Playboy's eight million copy-selling March 1989 issue, LaToya Jackson.

This isn't the first time Furtado has crossed paths with Hugh Hefner's magazine. While promoting her first album, Whoa, Nelly!, in 2000, the lad's mag asked the fresh-faced Victoria, B.C. singer if she'd have a problem using sex appeal to sell an album.

She responded, "I don't know if I'm doing it overtly, but I do know that it makes for a better image on paper. I don't like being artsy for artsy's sake. It's my first record and people have to know what I look like. So what am I going to do, put a picture of a drum on the cover? It's not like it doesn't have any artistic relevance behind it. My record is fashioned with reference to some of the old Brazilian records that inspired my album musically. That's why you see the flowery writing and the tall grass. So if by coincidence it's sexy then, oh well, I guess I'm sexy."