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Video: Kate Upton Takes Off Her Top And Rides A Horse (NSFW)
You have to hand it Kate Upton: she knows how to give the public what it wants. She does her signature dance the Cat Daddy on demand. She almost froze to death in Antarctica for the sake of a Sports Illustrated cover. She entertained the fantasies of a high school student who needed a prom date.
Recently she did a photo shoot that involved her taking off her top and hopping on the back of a horse. We're sure that her topless shoot will be edited tastefully (heh) wherever it ends up (eds. note: see below), but for now TMZ obtained video of her at the shoot trying to be modest for a few seconds and then giving up. The website promised us a "SUPER TOPLESS" Upton but it was edited (though we wouldn't say it was done tastefully, exactly).
TMZ took down its video, but we found another (lower-quality) video on YouTube:
And it's been determined that this video came from a shoot at Complex a few years back, and for whatever reason the footage was only leaked now. Here's the official video from Complex:
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