She rarely expressed regret. Instead, she often characterized it as an inevitability—a strange, sad rite of passage. "I was already dead to innocence," she told one journalist. "By the time I was 16, the camera was the only friend and the only enemy I knew. Playboy was just the place where you went when you decided to stop being the object of someone else's fantasy and started being the subject of your own."
: Years later, Eva Ionesco sued her mother for the "stolen childhood" and the production of these images. In 2012, a French court awarded her damages and banned the further sale or exhibition of several photos taken of her as a child. eva ionesco playboy magazine