Angie Harmon is a self-described prude when it comes to taking off her clothes. Before this shoot, she says the closest she ever came to public nudity was skinny dipping with her husband on a private beach.

“I’m very, very modest. The hardest part was when the robe came off and I was like, And now I’m… naked,” Harmon says. “You wonder if they can see your Cesarean scar.”

Harmon tells Allure that the closest she’d ever come to public nudity was skinny-dipping, but “I was with my husband (former New York Giant Jason Sehorn) and we were on a private beach in Bora Bora. We took one picture of our heads under the water, but we can never develop the film because we don’t know what else is showing!”

She overcame similar jitters at the shoot: “The hardest part was when the robe came off and I was like, And now I’m… naked,” Harmon says. “You wonder if they can see your Cesarean scar.”

But after a few minutes, “I felt comfortable. I realized, I’m here to make a beautiful picture.”

She wasn’t the only reluctant one. Scott initially rejected the idea. “It was a frightening concept,” she says in the magazine. “I had to be convinced.”

McLellan, however, had little trouble stripping down. “I’ve always been a performer,” she says.