A Utah judge ordered a woman to hand over her nude boudoir album after her ex-husband requested it as a keepsake during their divorce.
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Lindsay Marsh took photos during her marriage’s early, happier stages and wrote intimate notes inside the album. In April 2021, she filed for divorce from her ex-husband Chris Marsh after 25 years of marriage as reported by the Daily Mail.
She said she was disgusted by her ex’s request and shocked by Judge Michael Edwards’ decision to approve it. Additionally, he told her that she could take the original photos back to the photographer so they could be edited. However, the photographer obliged the request and said they shouldn’t be altered because it’s “art.”
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Earlier in August, Judge Edwards ruled that a third party can alter the images, but Marsh cannot erase the intimate messages written in the album.
‘That person is to do whatever it takes to modify the pages of the pictures so that any photographs of [Lindsay Marsh] in lingerie or that sort of thing or even without clothing are obscured and taken out. But the words are maintained for memory’s sake.’
However, Marsh opposed the idea of a stranger accessing her nude photos. “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 asked a clerk.
Once the original photographer agreed to edit the photos after learning about the alternate choice, Marsh still felt the overall idea was violating her privacy since she and Chris were dealing with a divorce.
‘That’s even violating. Because these are things that were sensual and loving that I wrote to my husband that I loved. You’re my ex-husband now.’
The judge ruled that Marsh can keep the original nude photos until December unless her ex-husband opposes the edits. Chris told the Tribune that the images hold special memories for him, and the album is a way for couples to share intimate moments.
‘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. As boudoir photography becomes a more common way for a couple to share intimacy, where is the line of appropriateness when they split up?’
The former couple also share two children together.