Car crash supermodel to sue over scar pictures

Supermodel Niki Taylor, critically injured in a car accident last year, is suing a British magazine publisher over photographs taken of her scars.

The lawsuit, filed in Palm Beach County Circuit Court, claimed Taylor was coerced into taking the pictures by representatives of British Glamour magazine.

Taylor has spent nearly a year recovering from the accident which caused life-threatening injuries, including severe liver damage. She has been interviewed and photographed several times, but the scars were not photographed until Tuesday.

According to her lawsuit, Taylor’s publicist negotiated a deal with writer Andrea Thompson of Glamour that the supermodel would be interviewed for 45 minutes and pose for two hours on the condition her scars would not be photographed.

Just prior to the interview, the European version of Cosmopolitan magazine announced a cover story about Taylor’s crash. That prompted Thompson and her photographer to persuade the model to reveal her scars, saying they needed a ‘‘different angle’’ for the story. The model felt ‘‘pressured and compelled to cooperate,’’ the lawsuit said.

On Thursday, Taylor’s lawyer sought an emergency court order to prevent the photos from being printed or sent outside the state. Circuit Judge Jorge Labarga denied that request.

Taylor ‘‘will suffer irreparable harm to her career as a fashion model, embarrassment and humiliation to which there is no adequate remedy of law’’ if the photos are published, according to the lawsuit.

British Glamour is published by Conde Nast Publications Inc.