Hilary Swank: I let boyfriend’s son see me nude
Actress says 6-year-old boy ‘doesn’t look twice, doesn’t think about it’

Swank isn’t known for doffing her duds on the big screen. But her revelation that she goes nude in real life — in front of her boyfriend’s 6-year-old son — has sparked such a controversy that it threatens to upstage her bid for a third Oscar: a new biopic about legendary aviatrix Amelia Earhart.

Yet Swank seems nonchalant about the ruckus, telling TODAY’s Meredith Vieira she believes being open about this choice in her personal life may open lines of communication in families.

“I think it’s great that people can talk about things that bring up debate,” Swank told Vieira on TODAY Friday. “I think every family is different, and you have to know what’s right for you and your family.”

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The 35-year-old actress says the Great Nude Debate came up innocently enough. In an interview with Joanna Coles for the November issue of Marie Claire, Swank was asked what she wears to sleep. Swank said, “I don’t sleep in anything.”

“It was actually part of a longer conversation,” the actress explained. “I said ‘I sleep in the nude, what do you sleep in?’ And [Coles] said, ‘Well, I sleep in a nightgown now because I have two young boys, and at one point, one of my kids saw me nude and was like, eww, so I knew it was time to sleep in a nightgown.’ So we had a long conversation about at what age you stop doing that.”

For Swank, that day has not yet come. Divorced from actor Chad Lowe, the actress is currently involved with her agent, John Campisi. She said that Campisi’s young son Sam typically sees her naked when he comes into the bedroom in the morning.

“He doesn’t look twice,” Swank told Marie Claire. “He doesn’t think about it yet.”

But others do. Web sites lit up about Swank’s naked candor, and many were critical. On the L.A. Times site, for example, blogger Elizabeth Snead wrote: “We can see a tell-all book about being forced to see his daddy’s girlfriend nude every morning in about 30 years.”

Swank told Marie Claire that it’s because she’s a restless sleeper. “I just toss and turn too much when I sleep, and if I’m in clothes, I get all twisted up.”

Basically, she is exposing herself to a minor she has no legal relationship to. And last I checked, that is illegal.

What an incredibly unimportant "news" story.

I'm just checking something here...but let's say instead of Hilary Swank, it was some big star male actor living with his girlfriend and his girlfriend's 6 year old daughter and he walked around naked. Would you react any differently? This question goes out to everyone, not just Timmit.

This thread is worthless without pics

I'm just checking something here...but let's say instead of Hilary Swank, it was some big star male actor living with his girlfriend and his girlfriend's 6 year old daughter and he walked around naked. Would you react any differently? This question goes out to everyone, not just Timmit.

never before have I wanted to be someone's 6 year old son so badly.

never before have I wanted to be someone's 6 year old son so badly.

I'm just checking something here...but let's say instead of Hilary Swank, it was some big star male actor living with his girlfriend and his girlfriend's 6 year old daughter and he walked around naked. Would you react any differently? This question goes out to everyone, not just Timmit.

While I wouldn't mind being six again, not for this reason. That chick is nasty.

I'm just checking something here...but let's say instead of Hilary Swank, it was some big star male actor living with his girlfriend and his girlfriend's 6 year old daughter and he walked around naked. Would you react any differently? This question goes out to everyone, not just Timmit.

Americans are kinda weird about nudity. I always find american friends get weirded at UK gyms too... folks wandering around dangling while they dry themselves and whathaveyou. Its like being naked is just one step away from being some kind of unstoppable rapist. Im not sure where that comes from, really.

However, I am not sure this word "nasty" means what you think it means.

Americans are kinda weird about nudity. I always find american friends get weirded at UK gyms too... folks wandering around dangling while they dry themselves and whathaveyou. Its like being naked is just one step away from being some kind of unstoppable rapist. Im not sure where that comes from, really.

Of course, I be overgeneralising.

A bit.