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HTGAWM Star Refuses to Strip to Bra and Underwear for GQ

Karla Souza stuns on the new cover of the magazine, but...

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Posted by GQ México on Monday, September 28, 2015

Karla Souza really wanted to be on the cover of GQ Mexico, but it took some time for the How to Get Away With Murder star to agree to a photo shoot.

"They wanted me in a bra and panties but I was like, 'I don't want to do the bra and panties on a bed thing,'" Souza told me at the InStyle Awards. "I wanted sophisticated, fancy, nice and beautiful and sexy, but not that. After a year, they were like, 'OK!' Luckily, they said yes to bathing suits and things I felt more comfortable in."

That doesn't mean she wasn't willing to show some skin. Souza absolutely stuns on the cover in a bustier and strappy bikini bottoms.

"They had done a lot of the fully naked kind of covers in Mexico," she said. "A lot of my fellow actresses had done that so that was the magazine's thing. They said that's what sells but then they told me my issue sold."

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And Souza couldn't be happier with the pics. "At the beginning of my career, I did a magazine cover where they gave me boobs that I don't have, a butt that I don't have and a waist that I don't have," she recalled. "I was appalled. It took me three years to ever be in a bikini again. I didn't want people to do that to my body again…So GQ did nothing—literally nothing. It was great."

Souza is also hoping L'Oreal Paris Mexico doesn't airbrush her too much in her upcoming hair color campaign for the beauty giant. She has been a face of the brand since April.

"My first photo session with them was spectacular but then I saw it on the buses and on the billboards and I thought, 'It really doesn't look like me,'" Souza said. "So I'm going to have a conversation with them. I know it's a tough thing because they have a look that they go for but I won't let that make me not say anything."

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