In a follow-up to the album controversy, Carpenter posed nude in a recent Rolling Stone editorial, wearing only thigh-high stockings for a series of steamy, fairytale-inspired images people.com+3news.com.au+3thescottishsun.co.uk+3. The feature has divided fans and critics: some praising her liberation and bold brand, others saying it perpetuates hyper-sexualization of women in pop culture. Carpenter maintained it’s part of a “creative process without rules.”