Miranda Kerr is the June cover girl for GQ’s “Love, Sex, & Madness” issue. While I never really get the fascination/love for Miranda, I do think she looks pretty on the cover shot and throughout the photo shoot (NSFW slideshow here). My only question is why choose this tangerine-colored background? It only highlights Miranda’s orange-looking fake tan, which is becoming more of a problem for GQ, judging from last month’s cover shot of Jake Gyllenhaal. Anyway, in the online excerpt from the cover story, Miranda talks about the now infamous incident with the banker looking at her photos on his computer while he was in the background of a live television interview. Here’s more:

You might recognize her from her work with the lacy underwear Xanadu Victoria’s Secret or know her as the girlfriend of the actor Orlando Bloom. But Kerr is most famous for almost getting someone fired. Not long ago, a young banker at a Sydney, Australia, investment house received an e-mail with a series of photos—from a previous issue of this very magazine—of a certain supermodel in states of glorious undress.

The problem was that one of the banker’s colleagues was being interviewed on live TV in their office at the time, talking about interest rates, while the poor banker in the background clicked through the photos. Four million YouTube hits later and the busted broker had become a phenomenon—not just because the video was funny, though Lord knows it was, but because men everywhere could relate. How can you operate a computer in 2010 and not eventually wind up looking at naked photos of Miranda Kerr?

“It was a huge deal,” Kerr told GQ recently over tea in New York City. “I wasn’t offended. I just felt sorry for the poor guy.”

Welcome to the twenty-first-century minefield of sex and the workplace, in which an ill-considered e-mail attachment can blow up into an interoffice scandal—or in Kerr’s case, a global incident. Men have always been getting themselves into these kinds of predicaments, but modern life—with its changing attitudes about sex, its new technology, its Miranda Kerrs—has widened the gray areas. At the same time, the stuff that’s always tormented the workingman hasn’t gotten any easier. When men and women work together, how do they handle the inevitable attraction? Does harassment really come down to who holds the power? Should we just permanently turn off this computer and quietly hum Bible hymns?

Posing near naked for a living can give you a certain perspective on such things. Kerr considers the scandalized Aussie banker with whom she’ll be forever intertwined. “I wonder if he’ll get into trouble if we send him this cover,” she asks. “We should send him a signed cover! He can read the magazine at home instead of at work on the Internet.” A brilliant idea.

[From GQ]

Eh, she sounds cute I guess. Orlando Bloom seems to adore her, so maybe she has a really great personality. I’m really struggling for an angle here, just because I don’t have strong feelings about Miranda in either direction – she’s about as interesting to me as a dry piece of toast.

Photos courtesy of GQ.