Court sides with hub on ‘boudoir pics’ XXX-files to ex in divorce
A Utah woman has been forced to hand over an edited “boudoir album” of racy nude photos to her ex-husband as part of their divorce — so he can keep the loving messages accompanying them for “memory’s sake.”
Lindsay Marsh told KSL News that a judge forced her “to distribute basically porn” after ruling that her husband of 25 years had the right to keep the intimate messages she scrawled inside the album.
While the judge eventually allowed her to have the racy photos edited — so they are “obscured” — the order left her feeling violated.
“It’s violating and it’s incredibly embarrassing and humiliating,” she told the Salt Lake Tribune.
“These are things that were sensual and loving that I wrote to my husband that I loved. [He’s] my exhusband now,” she said.
“The only way I can hopefully protect someone else from going through the same situation is to tell my story and expose that these are the types of things that he thinks are OK,” she told the Utah paper.
Marsh said the boudoir album was the only thing her ex, Chris Marsh, fought to keep during the divorce, which was finalized in July.
Davis County Judge Michael Edwards ordered that the album would have to be handed over so that “the words are maintained for memory’s sake.”
However, the photos could be given to the original photographer to “do whatever it takes to modify” them so that any pics of Marsh “in lingerie or that sort of thing or even without clothing are obscured and taken out,” the judge wrote.
That photographer — a close friend — initially refused to edit the pics, because “her clients trust her with their images and privacy, (and) she takes that seriously,” Marsh told KSL.
So in an Aug. 26 ruling, the judge ordered her to, instead, give them to another photographer to edit — someone she believes her ex-husband knew, she told the outlet.
She was so panicked, she called the judge’s clerks’ office to check that it was not an error, she told the Tribune.
“I just want to clarify . . . The judge has ordered me to give nude photos of my body to a third party that I don’t know without my consent?” she recalled asking.
After hearing the judge’s order, the original photographer agreed to alter the photos, putting large black boxes over any part of Marsh’s body while keeping the messages untouched.
Chris Marsh claimed the images were not as “intimate” as his exwife has said, insisting many had been posted online or had hung in their home.
“I cherish the loving memories we had for all those years as part of normal and appropriate exchanges between a husband and wife . . . and sought to preserve that in having the inscriptions,” he told the Tribune.
He noted that his ex-wife’s take on the order was “not my perspective nor the perspective of an impartial judge.”
“It appears that she has intentionally misrepresented and sensationalized several aspects of a fair proceeding to manipulate the opinions of others for attention and validation of victimhood,” he told KSL.
A spokesperson for Utah state courts system told the outlet that Edwards was unable to discuss specific cases.