Supermodel Cindy Crawford has hit back at criticism she received earlier this year for allowing her young daughter to be photographed in a bikini and insists the photos were entirely innocent. Crawford's then four-year-old daughter Kaya posed for the swimsuit shots, and she and husband Rande Gerber came under fire after some critics labeled the photos inappropriate.

She explains, "My friend has a swimwear line and she makes little girls' suits, so she had a bunch of her friends bring their daughters over and we did a little photo shoot, just for like their look book on their website. I was there and it was so innocent. Kaya's wearing shorts and she's kind of like from the back peeking over her shoulder.

"Some blog site called it a topless photo. I'm like how can you even talk about a four-year-old being topless! She's a little girl, it wasn't even, like, makeup or pageantry, or anything, it was truly just like little girls playing."

Crawford doesn't think she did anything wrong by allowing her daughter to participate in the shoot, but decided against having her pose a second time. She adds, "I will put it this way, they just had the shoot again and she didn't do it this time. More because my husband was like, 'Why do we want to put ourselves in that situation?' It's too bad, because one of my best girlfriends shot the pictures this time and she knows Kaya and it would have been great and I would have gotten great family photos."

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