Foreman was a historical biographer, not some model-cum-actress accustomed to slipping out of her kit in the interests of career furtherance.
Yet there was originally a sniff of scandal about going naked, usually as a result of context rather than indecency.
She's been famous for 12 years, in literary-historical circles, as the author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, which won the Whitbread Prize for Best Biography in 1998.