Audrina Patridge, 22, the lesser-known female from the trio on MTV faux reality show “The Hills,” has released more topless photos of herself. While she hasn’t commented on the latest photos, they’re new posed photos of her topless, so she doesn’t really need to explain that she wanted more publicity. They’re more like something you would see in FHM than Playboy, and maybe she thought her last set of topless photos taken three years ago were just a little bit porny and she wanted to show us that she’s capable of more subtle sexuality. She called the release of her first photos a “lesson learned,” and explained her involvement by saying she was “very trusting of others and… didn’t know to protect myself.” She probably thought that she didn’t know how to pose well either.

Audrina continues to deny that she leaked the first photos herself, saying “They were intended for my personal use and portfolio only. I never imagined they would come out.” She also suggested that the photographer betrayed her.

Audrina’s second set of photos, which are about as provocative as you would see in a non-nude men’s magazine, were released through the same photo agency that somehow had dibs on her earlier pictures. Star Magazine reported this week that those pictures were taken by a female photographer friend of Audrina’s at the home of an older rich friend of the photographer’s. Audrina sent them to Playboy magazine before she became semi-famous and never heard back so it’s not like she can claim innocence in the matter even if she didn’t intend for them to be released at this point.

On Friday night Audrina introduced the burlesque troop “The Pussycat Dolls” in Las Vegas. She claimed ahead of time that “I’m not going to be in the Pussycat Dolls. I don’t know where that came from. I’m going to introduce them one night and that’s it.” SFGate reported that she meant that she wasn’t going to wear a sexy outfit and perform with them on stage like Paris Hilton did, but that wasn’t exactly true. She was seen wearing two different barely-there outfits when she introduced them.Fox News notes that there wouldn’t have been as much interest in Audrina’s appearance with The Dolls if those nude photos hadn’t come out ahead of time. Maybe she should have spaced out the release of her latest pics until at least the end of the week. It’s possible though that given how quick the news cycle is she just wanted to take advantage of her fleeing fame while she can.

Audrina is shown “introducing” The Pussycat Dolls. The new topless photos of her are at TMZ.