Seven months pregnant with Scout, her second daughter with then-husband Bruce Willis, Demi Moore posed nude for the August 1991 cover of Vanity Fair and started a global conversation about female empowerment and beauty. The actress also inadvertently launched a whole new genre of celebrity portraits—the au naturel baby-bump reveal.
In 2011, photographer Annie Leibovitz conceded, “It was a popular picture and it broke ground, but I don’t think it’s a good photograph per se. It’s a magazine cover. If it were a great portrait, she wouldn’t be covering her breasts.”
Even so, Leibovitz has continued to shoot tasteful pregnancy pictures, as seen by her recent Vanity Fair cover with tennis great Serena Williams (see p. 9). Regardless of the photographer, though, stars love to show off their greatest achievements, as seen in this cover…