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A few months ago, Keira Knightley did a topless photoshoot for Interview Magazine and now she explains why she did it in an interview with The Times.

In the interview Knightley explains that, "I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or film posters."

The poster for "King Arthur" in 2004 was edited to look like she had bigger breasts. Ironically it was her training archery and preparation for the role that made her chest flatter as she explains in an interview with The Guardian. "My neck disappeared. My chest flattened even more. It wasn't the most feminine thing in the world, but it worked for the part, because there was strength there, and it was needed", Knightley explains.

But for the photoshoot for Interview Magazine, she was okay with doing a topless picture as long as her body wasn't retouched or edited. "Ok, I'm fine doing the topless shot as long as you don't make them any bigger or retouch", Knightley says. She goes on to say that, "Because it is important to say, It really doesn't matter what shape you are."

Keira has been going on a crusade on how the world view women and in an interview Net-A-Porter she says she has turned down many roles because she was asked to do what male actors were never asked to do.

"I'm not saying that there can't be really interesting stories about sex and violence, but a lot of it I just think, 'This is gratuitous for the sake of being gratuitous, and you'd never ask a dude to do this.' It's actually a difficult question: how much flesh are you meant to bare?" Knightley says.

Of course this isn't the first time Keira Knightley had gone topless or nude, in fact she posed nude together with Scarlett Johansson in the 2006 issue of Vanity. But the controversy was that Tom Ford was also on the nude photoshoot but he was fully clothed and the women weren't.