Dannii Minogue is enjoying life, but the singer and reality tv show host says she posed for Playboy in 1995 because she was in a bad place, and thousands of dollars in debt.

In a television interview set to be aired tomorrow, Dannii tearfully recounted her father’s warning about posing nude for Australian Playboy.

“My parents didn’t want me to do it. My dad was saying, ‘Doing this is forever – you can never, ever change it’. Kylie knew why I was doing it. I could have asked her for the money but it wasn’t in my nature. I never wanted to admit the trouble I was in. I should have been looking at my finances,” says Dannii in her interview with ITV’s Piers Morgan.

Dannii reportedly refuses to put a figure on the mountain of debt in the televised interview, saying, “I would never disclose how much – but it had to be a lot to look at my parents’ faces and see the anguish in my dad’s eyes,” but ABC Online puts it at $273,398.

The now 38-year-old Dannii talked about her failed marriage to Australian star of Nip/Tuck Julian McMahon and the inner-strength her and sister Kylie found during her older sister’s battle with breast cancer.

“We’re very different,” Dannii says of her and former-husband McMahon, “but I felt like a failure and I hate that. I thought, ‘How could I have not seen it coming, the marriage not working?’”

Despite the tears and the difficult financial pressures that inspired the nude photo-shoot, Dannii says she doesn’t regret the experience.

“I don’t regret it, but I feel relieved that people know why I did it – it’s a huge weight off my shoulders. It was actually fun and I did feel liberated. I looked at the pictures and thought, ‘I look all right!’. My girlfriends went out to buy it and told me I looked beautiful. It then felt like a celebration of me. The magazine was the biggest-selling title they had ever had and they had to reprint,” says Dannii during the interview.

Of Kylie’s battle with breast cancer, Dannii says everyone is relieved her 41-one-year old sister is in the clear, even though remission is a possibility. “The proper one is the five-year all-clear and we’re not there yet. She’s been so strong. In my head it’s not going to come back, that’s just not going to happen,” says Dannii.