Well, as Ronald Reagan might say, there she goes again.
Patti Davis, the rebellious, 41-year-old daughter of the former president and Nancy Reagan, poses nude in the July issue of Playboy.Davis said in an accompanying interview that she was prompted to bare it all after reading references to herself as middle-aged. She said she hadn't told her parents about the layout.
"Why stir up something?" she asked. "I mean, they're not going to like it."
In previous interviews and writings, Davis criticized her parents as abusive and emotionally distant. Her 1991 roman a clef, "Homefront," featured a domineering mother and a detached father.
In the Playboy interview, Davis said openness about sexuality was not part of her upbringing.
"My mother was less shy than my father, who was really shy. In fact, my parents were horrified by the free-love generation of the '60s and early '70s."