--- title: Gabrielle Union: Having Nude Photos Hacked Is 'Sexual Abuse' description: On Wednesday, actress Gabrielle Union published an essay on Cosmopolitan.com about how it felt to have her personal photos hacked while she was on her... canonical: https://time.com/3564723/gabrielle-union-nude-photos-hacking-cosmopolitan/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-06T19:16:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:56:15.952Z og:title: Gabrielle Union: Having Nude Photos Hacked Is 'Sexual Abuse' og:description: On Wednesday, actress Gabrielle Union published an essay on Cosmopolitan.com about how it felt to have her personal photos hacked while she was on her... og:url: https://time.com/3564723/gabrielle-union-nude-photos-hacking-cosmopolitan/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt005f3ead8e083533/698765bf35ba6f3389c04fb3/457993666.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2595 og:image:height: 1460 og:image:alt: Planned Parenthood Breast Party Ever og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Gabrielle Union: Having Nude Photos Hacked Is 'Sexual Abuse' twitter:description: On Wednesday, actress Gabrielle Union published an essay on Cosmopolitan.com about how it felt to have her personal photos hacked while she was on her... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt005f3ead8e083533/698765bf35ba6f3389c04fb3/457993666.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Gabrielle Union: Sharing Stolen Nude Photos Is a 'New Form of Sexual Abuse' > Sponsored content. 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(Manny Hernandez--Getty Images) Manny Hernandez—Getty Images  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Nov 6, 2014 7:16 PM UTC On Wednesday, actress Gabrielle Union published an essay on [Cosmopolitan.com](http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/news/a32589/gabrielle-union-my-nude-photos-were-stolen/?src=spr%5FFBPAGE&spr%5Fid=1440%5F109067435) about how it felt to have her personal photos hacked while she was on her honeymoon. Union was one of the victims of the massive photo hack in August that targeted stars like Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton. Here’s what she said: --- > “” --- She also notes that she felt especially helpless because so many of the photos that surfaced had been deleted years ago. Unfortunately, it seems that the “delete” button is practically meaningless: --- > “” --- Union calls the hack a “new form of sexual abuse,” and declares that the “violation” is about control over her own body. “People sometimes argue: but you wear skimpy bikinis — what’s the difference? The difference is that you are the one who chooses whether to show your body,” she writes. “When billions of people on the Internet can see you naked without your consent, it’s a crime.” **MORE:** [**How Nudity Became the New Normal**](http://time.com/3456891/jennifer-lawrence-nude-photo-vanity-fair/) The actress also compared speaking publicly about the hacking incident to when she was raped as a college student, noting that she stood up for herself then by helping the rapist get prosecuted, and she will stand up for herself now. “I was raised to speak up,” she writes. The _Bring It On_ star also said she was surprised at the outpouring of support, sometimes from places she least expected. “In LA, the photographers were waiting, but not to attack: They actually high-fived me. ‘We’re on Team Gab,'” she writes. “When the paparazzi tell you something is bad, you know it’s really bad.” \[[Cosmopolitan](http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/news/a32589/gabrielle-union-my-nude-photos-were-stolen/?src=spr%5FFBPAGE&spr%5Fid=1440%5F109067435)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3564723/gabrielle-union-nude-photos-hacking-cosmopolitan/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3564723/gabrielle-union-nude-photos-hacking-cosmopolitan/"},"headline":"Gabrielle Union: Sharing Stolen Nude Photos Is a 'New Form of Sexual Abuse'","datePublished":"2014-11-06T19:16:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:56:15.952Z","description":"On Wednesday, actress Gabrielle Union published an essay on Cosmopolitan.com about how it felt to have her personal photos hacked while she was on her...","url":"https://time.com/3564723/gabrielle-union-nude-photos-hacking-cosmopolitan/","keywords":["Living","celebrities","Hunger Games","Jennifer Lawrence"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt005f3ead8e083533/698765bf35ba6f3389c04fb3/457993666.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt005f3ead8e083533/698765bf35ba6f3389c04fb3/457993666.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Planned Parenthood Breast Party Ever","caption":"Planned Parenthood Breast Party Ever","creditText":"Manny Hernandez—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3564723/gabrielle-union-nude-photos-hacking-cosmopolitan/","name":"Gabrielle Union: Sharing Stolen Nude Photos Is a 'New Form of Sexual Abuse'"}}]}] ```