: The images that ended up in the October 1976 Italian edition of Playboy were captured by French fashion photographer Jacques Bourboulon .

The publication was not an isolated incident but rather the pinnacle of a broader media phenomenon:

Born in 1965, Eva Ionesco is the daughter of photographer Irina Ionesco. By the age of four, she was already posing for her mother, whose signature style involved highly staged, often gothic and eroticized imagery. These photographs, featuring a young Eva in heavy makeup, corsets, and adult contexts, were exhibited and published across Europe.

Although the centre‑fold slot was absent from this particular issue — a rarity in itself — the photographs were placed toward the back under the “cinema” section because Eva was originally scheduled to appear in a film called Spermula . (She did appear in Spermula , but almost all of her scenes were eventually cut.)

As a director, My Little Princess remains her most widely known work, but she has also written screenplays and produced short films. In , she married Simon Liberati, although the couple later separated. She has one son, Lukas, who was born in 1995 and has himself become an actor.

: The pictorial featured a pre-pubescent Eva posing entirely nude on an empty seaside terrace and along a beach.