LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Vanity Fair posts a photo of Jennifer Lawrence lying naked with a giant snake.

The picture was taken last summer, when Lawrence posed for the cover of the magazine.But Vanity Fair only made the image of the Louisville native and the giant Colombian red-tailed boa constrictor public last night.

The magazine says its a tribute to the 1981 portrait of Nastassja Kinski. The magazine says Lawrence only became uncomfortable, when the snake took a fancy to her neck.  Then the shoot was over and Mr. Boa went back into his box.

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