While John Edwards' former mistress, Rielle Hunter, didn't take off all her clothes for a GQ photographer, what she did bare has caused some controversy, CNN's Jeanne Moos reported.

Hunter, who worked as a videographer on Edwards' presidential campaign before giving birth to his daughter, did a photo shoot for the magazine in which she shows her legs while apparently wearing just a man's shirt and shows her midriff while holding her child.

Hunter has since told Barbara Walters' that she cried for two hours about how the pictures were used. On "The View," Walters said that Hunter trusted the photographer and "went with the flow."

She didn't get much sympathy from another host of "The View," Whoopi Goldberg.

"She's with us now, like foot decay!" she said.

In the interview, Hunter said that Edwards' marriage was dysfunctional before she came along, therefore she can't be called a home wrecker.

She said he told her after their first night together that he could really mess up his plans to be president.

And that was before she took pictures in bed with stuffed versions of Kermit the frog, Barney the dinosaur and Dora the Explorer.