Naked Ambition: My life, my rules

'I wanted to be heard,' she explained. 'And it's true I'm trying to sell sensuality and erotica, and if it helps me to be heard, so be it.'

Chloe claimed that she always has protected sex and goes for a HIV test every six to eight months.

During our two-hour interview at the Orchard library last year, she came across as eloquent and intelligent.

As she does in her blog, she made constant references to books, films and authors to put across her views.

She also discussed government policies, which she also does in her blog.

We even had a brief discussion about the local education system.

Chloe was a little less forthcoming about her family. Her family has found out about her blog after the recent media ruckus over her nude photo.

Chloe would only say that she's from a middle-class Christian family and is the oldest of three siblings. She said her parents gave her a liberal upbringing.

'They let me do anything I want. They saw me as an equal and allowed me to express my views freely.

'They know I'm not an angel, that I'm not conservative and have strong views about sexuality.'

Do people question what she writes?

'Yes, I'm often asked if what I write is true. I tell them it's what I want to tell you, with the intent of exposing my personality through my stories.'

Michael Moore Fan

She cited as an example Fahrenheit 911 filmmaker Michael Moore.

'Michael Moore is a fantastic documentarian, though he's intensely biased... At the end of the movie... you don't leave remembering the tiny details, but you go with the impression that the Iraq war was pointless and done for the wrong reasons.'

Why her fascination with white men?

'I grew up being English-educated and exposed mostly to Western culture, so I'm more inclined to the Western idea of beauty.'

Singapore men, she said, are too immature, insecure, chauvinistic, possessive and not independent enough.

In the last three years, she had brief relationships with two Singaporeans.

'One constantly thought he was beneath me, while the other was egotistical.'

It put her off Asian men. She started dating Caucasians two years ago, and is now in an 'open relationship', meaning she's free to see other people.

She has received her fair share of flak from disgruntled Asian men, like the one who told her that her life was 'like an adult movie'.

But Chloe has fans as well, mainly fellow SPGs and the white men who date them. Many bloggers have added her URL link to their sites.

She said: 'They told me they identified with me, which made me feel less dislocated.'

She has strong words for her detractors.

'It is extreme wrong-headedness to compartmentalise racially-mixed couples as propagators of immoral relationships based on sex and money...

'We're Singapore because we're a concoction of so many races and values.

'I have chosen mine, and am living the way I wish. And I make up part of the infinite variety of the nation.

'To judge my choice, or any other girl that so chooses, would be to undermine our very own nationalistic beliefs.'

Just stop picking on me

A self-confessed exhibitionist, Chloe says she likes being in the news.

She wrote in her blog: 'If you want to give me publicity, I'll take it. My mail box is exploding, and I love it. Interviews? Bring them on.'

But in an e-mail interview with The New Paper on Sunday on Thursday, she said that she did not want to make the news as the girl who put her naked photo on the Internet.

'It's fine for the short term, but if it goes on too long, I suppose I'll just have to leave the country.'

The Straits Times published a report last Saturday about a nude photo of her on her blog. It followed up with a report on Wednesday and another yesterday. There were also reports in the Chinese evening newspapers.

Chloe said she was 'tired and confused' by the media uproar.

'I felt like my desire to remain unknown outside the Web was being infringed upon.

'There's a difference between something being published on an unofficial blog or e-zine and in the state paper. Most people would generally give more credence to the latter.'

While she craves publicity, it has also backfired on her.

Parental Objection

Her parents, from whom she hid the blog, have found out about it.

She said: 'They know. They read. I will not comment further to keep them out of this.'

But she wrote in her blog: 'My mom doesn't care, but my dad doesn't like it so she doesn't like it.'

She removed the nude photo on Thursday.

She wrote: 'My parents don't want any recognisable nude pictures of myself in this ultra public place, so I have removed that photograph that caused the unnecessary stir.'

Chloe was furious at those who criticised her parents for not raising her well.

She wrote: 'My parents brought me up well.'

When we met Chloe last year, she told us she agreed to an interview because she wanted a book deal.

But that priority has since changed.

She said: 'I have to do this interview because I want to have my words down in print. I want all the interfering, meddlesome hordes to know that there is more in me than just a body that likes to be unclothed.'

Explaining why she took the nude photo, she said: 'Because I was paid to do it, because I think the photographer is a highly talented individual, and because I like having pretty photos of myself.

'It's no different from why tons of models take glamour shots and have themselves published in underwear catalogues.'

She declined to say how much she was paid. But she admitted it was not the first time she had been shot in the nude.