K-Fed's Throat Cut for Art

Kevin Federline features in a controversial new portrait with a slashed throat.

He posed - complete with prosthetic gash - for celebrity photographer Steven Klein, and the piece will form part of the National Portrait Gallery's Face of Fashion exhibition which opens on February 15, in London.

Klein, who also took iconic shots of Madonna in a series of eye-watering yoga poses a few years ago, said, "To me, a portrait is a representation of a person and a slash across a throat is the equivalent of a brushstroke.

"It's like a classical painting. The slash reveals who the person is.

"For me, the break in the skin shows that all portraits are lies. To see through the skin is to see someone's reality."

Er, right. Kev will be among famous company too - Kate Moss's portait will also feature in the exhibition.

Who'd have thought he'd go all arty on us?

SLJ