Drew Barrymore Recalls Posing for 'Playboy,' Explains Why She Regrets 'Chaste' Images

Drew Barrymore opened up about some regrets that she had over posing for Playboy in her teens.

The 49-year-old actress and talk-show host covered the iconic magazine in 1995. At the time, she was 19.

In a lengthy post shared on Instagram on Friday (August 30), Drew reflected on her past while explaining why she didn’t want her daughters to have access to smartphones.

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“I wished many times when I was a kid that someone would tell me no. I wanted so badly to rebel all the time, and it was because I had no guardrails. I had too much access and excess, and eventually, ‘no’ actually became a challenge,” Drew said near the start of her lengthy message.

She said that she had been exposed to “hedonistic scenarios” and “highly sensitive” images that “caused her tremendous shame.”

“We, as kids, are not meant to see these images,” Drew said. “And, yes, I was even a big exhibitionist when I was young due to these environments I was in.”

“I thought of it as art, and I still do not judge it,” she continued, shifting her focus to her own photoshoot. “But when I did a chaste artistic moment in Playboy in my early 20s, I thought it would be a magazine that was unlikely to resurface because it was paper.”

Of course, we now know that images are forever thanks to the internet, which Drew “never knew” would exist.

“I didn’t know so many things,” she said.

The actress added that she “will keep loving my journey” since she couldn’t undo anything.

“We make mistakes. And people have been so kind to me. Forgiven me. And cheered me on as I grew up,” Drew said, adding that she would be the parent she “needed” as a child.

Drew has two daughters – Olive, 12, and Frankie, 10 – who she shares with ex-husband Will Kopelman.

Last year, she shared a strict screentime rule that she has for the girls.