"How I Met Your Mother" fame Cobie Smulders posed topless on the cover of the 2015 Women's Health photo shoot where she said it was important for her to understand her body again after battling with ovarian cancer.
Cobie Smulders said posing topless helped her understand her body better, and be at ease with it after she suffered from cancer, reported Today.
Smulders reportedly wrote that it was a very strange day, in an essay for Lenny about her shoot.
"I was standing in front of a camera lens in my underwear and holding my breasts, all while trying to appear not sexy but confident," she said in a report by Today.
The star was diagnosed with cancer at the third season of "How I Met Your Mother" in 2008 when she was still 25. Now she is 34.
According to Fox News, the actress wrote in her essay that just when her ovaries should have been brimming with youthful follicles, cancerous cells overtook it, which posed a threat to her fertility and even her life.
The Today's report suggested that Smulders began to think about the body she is in, and what it has been through. She called the invitation to pose as "bizarre", but reportedly a good opportunity for her to share what she has learnt in this battle with cancer, and how she overcame and cured her illness.
The report said Smulders plays Maria Hill in the "Avengers" series, and posed for the shoot six weeks after her second daughter with husband Taran Killam was born.
Smulders reportedly gained freedom from cancer, after many surgeries two years later. She wanted to share her battle with Women's health. She felt it was her duty to spread awareness since she was on the other side of cancer, even if it meant posing topless, according to the report.
