Ciara upset with Vibe; calls 'nude' photo cover misleading

R&B singer Ciara says she did not pose nude for the October issue of Vibe magazine. And although she is very upset, she is not planning any legal action, MTV News reports.

"I think, at this point, I'd rather just be quiet about things such as that but I definitely want to make it clear that I was going in to do something artistic, and I was upset that when I saw the photos, everything was gone," she told MTV News.

Ciara called the controversial cover :very, very upsetting and somewhat misleading," MTV reported. 

In response, Vibe Editor in Chief Danyel Smith basically called Ciara a liar. Smith reportedly told New York's KISS-FM radio station that the singer was, in fact, naked and the idea came from Ciara herself.

"I'm actually really sad," Smith said. "Almost any photo you see on the cover of Vibe or any magazine is airbrushed [to some degree]. What I was thinking of doing, actually, was releasing the untouched photos [on Vibe's] Web site, so people can see what the hullabaloo is all about. I have so much respect for Ciara, and Ciara was so happy when she pitched this idea to us, and the photos are actually striking and beautiful. It was pitched to me in a way that it was time [for her] to grow up and be beautiful and be free and be all the things she wanted to be."

But Ciara stood by her story. "I know what was there, I know what was taken, and I know what was done. And then to look at the book and go, 'It's gone' -- it was just very upsetting to me," she said.