Utah woman 'humiliated' by judge's order to hand over album of her nude photos to ex-husband
DAVIS COUNTY, UTAH: Lindsay Marsh from Utah was ordered by a judge, overseeing her divorce proceedings, to hand over an album of "boudoir style" nude images to her ex-husband.
Chris, her ex-husband, wanted to keep the album and the intimate messages she had written to him in it, during the course of their marriage, reported the Daily Mail. "It's violating and it's incredibly embarrassing and humiliating," she said about the order by the Davis County judge Michael Edwards.
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"The only way I can hopefully protect someone else from going through the same situation is to tell my story and expose that these are the types of things that he thinks are OK," said Marsh. According to reports, Judge Edwards also suggested that she take the book back to the original photographer to have a copy made with her body edited out. However, the photographer seemingly denied Lindsay's request, saying that the originals were "works of art that should not undergo editing."
Following this, the judge then ruled that Marsh must now hand over the album to a third party who will then edit the images. "That person is to do whatever it takes to modify the pages of the pictures so that any photographs of [Lindsay Marsh] in lingerie or that sort of thing or even without clothing are obscured and taken out," read his ruling, shared with The Salt Lake Tribune, adding that "the words are maintained for memory's sake."
For Marsh, however, this was the worst alternative and she could not believe she had been asked to hand over her intimate photographs to an absolute stranger. "I just want to clarify," she said to the judge's clerk, "The judge has ordered me to give nude photos of my body to a third party that I don't know without my consent?" When the original photographer learned of this, she agreed to do the edits herself.
Nevertheless, edited or not, the very prospect of presenting her now ex-husband with such photographs does not sit well with Marsh. "Because these are things that were sensual and loving that I wrote to my husband that I loved. You're my ex-husband now," she said to Shris. The two had been married for 25 years before she filed for divorce in April 2021. Legally, she is required to keep the originals in case Chris disagrees with any edits. Once all of it is over, she intends to throw a burning party, saying, "It's going to be amazing."
Weighing in his opinion, her ex-husband told The Tribune that the albums were not "inappropriate-type books" adding that he cherished "the loving memories we had for all those years as part of normal and appropriate exchanges between a husband and wife, and sought to preserve that in having the inscriptions." Above all, their case certainly poses an important issue, "As boudoir photography becomes a more common way for a couple to share intimacy, where is the line of appropriateness when they split up?" asks the ex-husband.