Monroe took the nude photos because she needed to pay her bills

On the release documents for the Red Velvet series, as the images were known, the actress signed her name “Mona Monroe.” The reason? “I don’t know why, except I may have wanted to protect myself,” Monroe told Barris for his memoir. “I was nervous, embarrassed, even ashamed of what I had done, and I did not want my name to appear on that model release.”