People are used to seeing professional ballroom dancer Kym Johnson in skimpy costumes on the dance floor, but probably not to seeing her totally nude. The "Dancing with the Stars" star has shed off her clothes in a risqué campaign for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

The 36-year-old Australian export to the U.S. reality competition show has posed completely nude with just her limbs and a stuffed bunny protecting her modesty in PETA's Choose Cruelty-Free campaign. Kym said that she was shocked to learn that animals like rabbits, pigs, and guinea pigs are suffering because cosmetics companies are using them to test their products.

"I saw Dave Navarro doing a PETA campaign and I was so disturbed by what I saw," Kym said, referring to the rock guitarist's photo shoot with the organisation earlier this year, wherein he also posed nude but with bleeding eyes and bloody patches on skin, mimicking the cruelties done on animals.

"That really shocked me," she continued. "And that really made me think what am I putting on my face? And what has this animal suffered for me to be using this mascara or hairspray?

"I wanted to do this campaign to make other people aware of what animals go through for us to wear these products."

She also admitted that "showing off a little bit of skin and being a little bit nervous doing this will definitely create some awareness and it's definitely well worth it."

Kym appeared on "Dancing with the Stars" Australia in its first to third season. She and dance partner Tom Williams won the series during its second season.

In 2006, she was the new addition to the U.S. version of the third season of the show, wherein she was partnered with Jerry Springer. She is now partnered with soap opera actor Ingo Rademacher in the current sixteenth season of the show.