The story behind the historic bearskin rug shoot, Reynolds’ disdain for it later in life, and its 45-year legacy. Senior Editor, Obsessed Burt Reynolds probably wouldn’t like that, in death ...

Burt Reynolds is stretched out on a bearskin rug like it’s a macho man’s chaise ... s pages over 30 years – took hundreds of photos, creatively obscuring Reynolds’ genitalia with props ...

Back in 1972, Burt Reynolds posed in the pages of Cosmopolitan lying naked on a bear-skin rug. In 2016, he has some second thoughts. Speaking with “What To Watch” at the South by Southwest ...

This was the caption that ran beside the photo of a young, smiling Reynolds ... they want pictures of my thing, it’s a bad day. There I am, freezing my bottom off on a bear skin rug, and they ...

Facebook has a zero-tolerance approach to nudity, but they recently had to bend the rules for one person: the late Burt Reynolds ... Facebook blindly treated the photos as though they were ...

Burt Reynolds, who died Thursday at 82, was in legendary movie-star form when he sat down for an extended interview with USA TODAY in March. Showing off a silver-handled cane and a mischievous ...

Burt Reynolds sought advice from actress Raquel Welch after his iconic 1972 Cosmopolitan centerfold of him naked on a fuzzy bearskin rug, which elevated his status as a Hollywood sex symbol.

I can’t recall when I first saw the famous Burt Reynolds centerfold in Cosmopolitan, but I was probably about 18. The photo, taken in 1972 when Reynolds was not yet famous (but getting there ...

Burt Reynolds is stretched out on a bearskin rug like it's a macho man's chaise longue. He is tanned, mustachioed, and - much like the beast beneath him - very, very hairy. Bulging veins line his ...

Burt Reynolds is stretched out on a bearskin rug like it's a macho man's chaise ... Cosmopolitan's pages over 30 years - took hundreds of photos, creatively obscuring Reynolds' genitalia with ...

Burt Reynolds is stretched out on a bearskin rug like it’s a macho man’s chaise ... s pages over 30 years — took hundreds of photos, creatively obscuring Reynolds’ genitalia with props ...