Love & Hip-Hop Atlanta season 2 star Traci Steele addressed her recent photo leak. The club DJ described the leak of her nude photo that went viral as "hurtful." 

Steele said she doesn't know who released the photos and when she learned it happened, she was very upset.

"At first, I was very devastated, I cried for two days when I found out about it," Steele told Sista 2 Sista. "Then I had to think about the positives. I didn't really get any negative feedback. Blogs are so short-lived. People are gonna forget about it, so I had to keep doing what I had to do to maintain."

"I thought it would be devastating to me and my son but everybody keeps saying 'the pictures are beautiful, classy,'" she laughed. "But I still wouldn't want it out because I'm a mother."

Steele revealed that blogger Funky Dineva was the first to tell her about the leak. The urban blogger said he received the pictures and that the mystery ex was in the process of leaking them to all urban media at the time.

"It was real hurtful. I still don't know who it is," she said. The reality star believes the culprit was motivated by money and that she was embarrassed because of what her young female fans may have thought of her afterward.

"I want young women to know, that I'm human. I made a mistake, and I learned from the mistake," she said. 

"Even in a relationship, you can send a picture to somebody that you love, and you're trying to keep your relationship interesting, but you don't know where those pictures will land in the future. So, don't do it," Traci warned.

MediaTakeout published Steele's nude photo on Aug. 27. According to the urban gossip site, they received the photo from her unnamed ex-boyfriend. The mystery man sent the picture with the acronym "TBT" (meaning: Throwback Thursday), according to the website.

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