Rihanna Covers British Vogue, Shows More Skin Again

Rihanna, who's been making news for not wearing clothes rather than for her music, isn't helping her cause any by posing without pants on in British Vogue.

This comes just days after she got in trouble in the UK for wearing nothing but a bathing suit in an irish field. I wondered why that was a problem too.

Rihanna covers British Vogue in a blonde Marilyn Monroe style wig, and a floral print Armani Prive gown and looks stunning and shockingly demure. Then flip inside to the Rihanna article and there's the good-girl-gone-bad we're so used to.

In the inside photos she poses in a leotard and black blazer and leans up against a rusty sign in a pair of black pointy pumps. It's nothing we haven't seen from Beyonce. However, when Beyonce poses in a leotard it's like Oh yeah, that's probably what she wears to sleep and when Lady Gaga wears a leotard it's like Oh Yeah, that's probably what she wears to church, but Rihanna in a leotard just gives us more reason call her racy and suggestive.

Rihanna also dons a black beret in the leg-barring shot, which is supposed to class-it-up or something.

However, Rihanna says the sexed-up, pant-less, Irish-farmer-flashing girl in the tabloids and music videos is not the real Rihanna.

"That's not me," she tells Vogue, "That's a part I play. You know, like it's a piece of art."

She, like many popstars before her, claims she's no role model. She tells the mag, "People - especially white people - they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me and being a role model became more of my job than I wanted it to be. But no, I just want to make music. That's it."

Her November Vogue issue comes out just in time to promote her sixth studio album (out November 21) and she says she's overcame a lot to get where she is today.

"God doesn't give any more than you can handle. I had to get through a lot of ups and downs - big downs - and a lot of trial and error to get where I am now," says the singer.

Rihanna also has shocked fans lately for wearing a necklace with the c-word on it, the word rhymes with "punt" so, figure it out. She tries to defend her commonplace use of the offensive term, saying that in her native home of Barbados, everyone frequently uses that word.

"It's funny. The word is so offensive to everyone in the world except Bajans."