True. In 2019, at the prompting of a film crew making a documentary about how damaging it was for her image to be in wide circulation, and who presumably paid for her time, Lena asked for her picture to be taken out of circulation.
As recently as earlier that year, her views were much closer to my own [0]:
>When I asked [Lena] if she had heard anything about the recent controversy around her image, she seemed alarmed at the thought that she could have a part in hurting or discouraging young women. I sent her some articles about the Lenna and later gave her a call to see what she made of them. The photo, she said, doesn’t show very much—just down to her shoulders—so it was hard for her to see what the big deal was.
As recently as earlier that year, her views were much closer to my own [0]:
>When I asked [Lena] if she had heard anything about the recent controversy around her image, she seemed alarmed at the thought that she could have a part in hurting or discouraging young women. I sent her some articles about the Lenna and later gave her a call to see what she made of them. The photo, she said, doesn’t show very much—just down to her shoulders—so it was hard for her to see what the big deal was.
[0]: https://www.wired.com/story/finding-lena-the-patron-saint-of...