She was portrayed in provocative, nude poses on a beach and a terrace.

: The photographs were part of a broader body of erotic work produced by her mother, Irina Ionesco, which led to a loss of custody and later lawsuits by Eva for "emotional distress" and a "stolen childhood".

In 1976, Eva Ionesco was 11 years old. Playboy magazine, despite its liberal attitudes, has never published nude images of a minor. The first legal adult nude photos of Eva Ionesco appeared in the French edition of Playboy in 1994 (some sources say 1996), when she was in her late twenties.

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