The 26-year-old supermodel alleges that earlier this week a reporter and photographer from British Glamour coerced her into showing the scars for photos that she now says could destroy her career.

Stephen Screnci, Taylor's attorney, sought an emergency court order yesterday to block the pictures from being printed or sent outside Florida, where they were shot. A judge rejected the request, and Screnci has now filed a lawsuit in Palm Beach County Circuit Court, "just as a measure to protect the photos from going to the U.K."

The suit claims that the model's manager had an agreement with reporter Andrea Thompson that Taylor would be interviewed for 45 minutes and would pose for two hours, on the condition that her scars would not be photographed, for the May issue of British Glamour.

But according to the lawsuit, when the European version of Cosmopolitan ran a story on the model and her accident in its February issue (unbeknownst to Taylor), Thompson and her photographer told Taylor at Tuesday's shoot that they needed "a different angle for their story, which included photographs of her unclothed body to reveal her bodily scarring." The suit alleges that Taylor felt "pressured and compelled to cooperate" with their requests.

Though Taylor has been interviewed and photographed several times since her release from a Georgia rehabilitation center, she has never, until now, revealed her scars for the camera.

If these pictures are published, the model and divorced mother of six-year-old twin boys "will suffer irreparable harm to her career as a fashion model, embarrassment and humiliation to which there is no adequate remedy of law," the lawsuit claims.

Conde Nast has not yet made a formal statement in response to the suit, and was unavailable for comment this morning.

On April 29, Taylor was sitting in the passenger seat of a car when the driver looked down to pick up his cell phone and crashed into a utility pole in Atlanta. She has since undergone more than 40 surgeries to repair the internal damage she suffered. Taylor first appeared in public again in October.