A woman from Utah, USA, has disclosed her surprise at being ordered by a judge to handover a photo album of her ‘boudoir style’ nude photos to her ex-husband as part of their divorce settlement.
The term ‘Boudoir’ is a French term that can refer to either a bedroom or a lady’s private dressing room. A Boudoir Photo Album is based on this concept and contains sexually suggestive photographs of a lady taken by a professional photographer.
Lindsay Marsh, the lady, stated that she commissioned the photos during the early years of her marriage, and that she wrote ‘loving’ and intimate messages to him inside the album.
However, when she filed for divorce in April 2021 after 25 years of marriage, her ex-husband Chris Marsh stated that he wanted to keep the album as a reminder of their time together.
‘It’s infuriating and embarrassing and humiliating,’ she said.
‘The only way I can hopefully prevent someone else from going through what I went through is to tell my story and expose the types of things he thinks are OK.’
Marsh stated that she was taken aback when her ex requested the photo book in court.
Marsh approached the photographer, but the photographer refused, claiming that the images were works of art that should not be altered.
In August of this year, the judge ruled that she must turn over the album to a third party, who will edit the images.
‘That person is to do whatever it takes to modify the pages of the pictures so that any photographs of [Lindsay Marsh] in lingerie or that sort of thing, or even without clothing, are obscured and removed,’ he wrote in a ruling obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune.
‘However, the words are kept for the sake of memory.’
Marsh described the idea of handing over the book to a stranger as even more traumatic.
She said she had to call the judge’s clerk to ensure she hadn’t misunderstood the ruling.
‘I just wanted to clarify,’ she said. ‘The judge has ordered me to give nude photos of my body to an unknown third party without my consent?’
‘That’s even illegal,’ Marsh said.
‘Because these were sensual and loving things I wrote to my husband that I adored. You’re now my ex-husband.’
Lindsay Marsh is required by law to keep the originals until December in case her ex objects to any of the changes.
She then intends to throw them into the fire at a burning party.
‘It’s going to be incredible,’ she predicted.
Chris Marsh, her ex-husband, told The Tribune that the books were full of memories, inscriptions, and photos, and that they were not ‘inappropriate-type books.’
‘I cherish the loving memories we had for all those years as part of normal and appropriate exchanges between a husband and wife, and sought to preserve that with the inscriptions,’ he said.
‘As boudoir photography becomes a more popular way for a couple to share intimacy, where do they draw the line when they split up?’
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