Danica Patrick isn't shy about revealing a lot of her body. On Friday, she said she's not opposed to revealing all of it.
SBNation.com is reporting that Patrick addressed the issue of posing nude during her weekly news conference. The issue is a hot topic with the first photos published from ESPN The Magazine's upcoming "The Body Issue," which contains pictures of athletes posing artistically nude.
"Artistically, I think it would be really fun," Patrick said Friday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, according to SBNation.com.
The NASCAR driver who often appears in skimpy swimsuit adds and makes racy commercials for her NASCAR sponsor GoDaddy.com, says ESPN annually asks her to appear in "The Body Issue." She also said that Sports Illustrated has asked her to pose for its swimsuit issue wearing only body paint.
"It's not things that I need to do to push the issue with my brand," she said. "There's already enough stuff that I do that pushes that. I'd rather stay in my full comfort zone than go that far. I'm not saying there will never be a day.
"When I speak to (ESPN) and they ask me each time I say, "Don't stop asking. I don't know. I might change my mind one year. And it might be something that parallels something else I'm doing, or where I'm at, or how I'm feeling." But just not right now."
Patrick said she realizes her scantily clad appearances leave little to the imagination, but that's different than leaving nothing to the imagination.
"Would I feel comfortable? I'm sure it'd be a little bit borderline," Patrick said. "There's a difference to me between going to the beach and wearing a swimming suit and going to the beach and wearing nothing or paint. That's just pushing the limit a little bit."
Her biggest concern is doing anything that would interfere with or hinder her professional driving and charity work, including Drive 4 COPD (according to Boldride.com), an organization that helps victims of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
"I still have to do things that I feel completely comfortable with and I feel wouldn't take away from the other things I do -- the good things that I do," Patrick said. "Because those things can turn negative quick and be louder than the good and that's not what I want to happen."
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