Having agreed with a lot of the posts I have just read this which does go some way to explain (but not to justify the bad photography)
MONICA Bellucci poses pregnant and nude on the cover of the new issue of Italian Vanity Fair to protest the new Italian law, which restricts in-vitro fertilization to married couples and prohibits the use of donor sperm. "Religious and ethical dogmas have prevailed upon common sense," says the luscious actress, who was shot by Fabrizio Ferri. "This kind of legal obstacle is not so different from the physical limitations that women have long endured. In Muslim countries women are forced to cover their heads and keep silent. In Italy, they are prevented from asking the help of science to become mothers, unless they are married." Bellucci explains she decided to become a mother because "I was tired of my body." We weren't. "I found it ridiculous that my breasts and stomach should still be the same as they were when I was 18 and even though I had lived and changed, my body had not. I realized that my breasts were not just made to fill evening gowns, that is was time for them to fulfill their destiny."