Pop star Rihanna has shed more clothes than ever before for an X-rated photo shoot for men's magazine GQ.  The Russian Roulette singer posed topless for the cover of GQ's January, 2010 edition, and bares all in a series of five raunchy photos inside the mag.

In the accompanying interview, Rihanna described the snaps as "sexy".  "It’s very sexy, yeah. At one point (Island Def Jam Music Group chairman) LA Reid came into the shoot, and he was like, 'Rihanna, put some clothes on!;"  She expressed relief at being able to freely discuss her controversial break-up with Chris Brown earlier in the year.

"It’s relieving. Because it was built up for so long, and all these thoughts and emotions have been running through my mind for the past eight months," she said.  "And now it’s like I finally get to let go and move on."  Brown was found guilty of a pre-Grammy assault on Rihanna and ordered to carry out 80 hours of community labour, undergo 12 months of domestic violence counselling and receive five years probation for the incident.

He also has to stay at least 100 yards away from Rihanna for the next five years.  Rihanna said she decided to speak out to help other people who had been in her situation.  "I didn't realize how much of an effect it had on young girls’ lives, and that’s part of the insight that I wanna give. Stop blaming yourself for that outcome.  "There’s nothing you can do, ever, to excuse a man’s behaviour like that."