Playmate Jaylene Cook climbed Mt Taranaki, posing naked for images near the summit. Photo / Josh Shaw
Playboy playmate Jaylene Cook, who posed naked for a photo atop Mt Taranaki, has apologised for offending people - but said she would do the same thing again.
The glamour model, who is touring the country with her photographer boyfriend Josh Shaw, posted the photo to Instagram which has attracted
more than 9000 likes.
Cook, 25, defended her decision to go nude, saying she and her partner did their research on the history and cultural beliefs around Mt Taranaki before hiking to the summit.
"There was nowhere that we read or were told that it was a bad thing to do, and we believe that it still wasn't. We see nudity as art and pure and natural," she told Newstalk ZB's Larry Williams.
It was a "last-minute decision" to do the shoot at the top of the mountain.
