[the improper.com]- D-list celeb-by-association Adrienne Bailon purposely leaked her own nude photos as a public relations stunt to drum up press coverage, says her close friend, Hollywood publicist Jonathan Jaxson.

“Last week I was working with Adrienne and we decided to do a little extra publicity for her image,” Jaxson told a CBS affiliate in Atlanta. “She had her laptop stolen [recently] at an airport in NYC,” he explained. “We got the police report, but it wasn’t good enough. So we decided to juice it up, and what better way to do that than to say that nude pictures could have been stolen from her laptop?”

But then, Jaxson says the PR stunt went horribly wrong when–gasp!–Bailon’s nude pictures actually surfaced all over the Internet. “She’s [a Disney starlet] so we never thought in a million years the pictures would get out, and what happens? Nude pictures surface…and now I’m instantly her spokesman.”

Bailon, 25, must have gotten the nude-photo-leak idea from her future sister-in-law, sex tape star, Kim Kardashian, 28. Adrienne has been dating Kim’s brother Robert Kardashian Jr., 21, for over a year.

In 2007, Kim became a tabloid sensation when her sex tape mysteriously surfaced on the Internet. Since then, Kardashian has parlayed her 15 minutes of fame into her own reality tv show (where she has featured Cheetah Girl Adrienne Bailon) and has become a cover girl for numerous hip-hop magazines and celebrity tabloids. Kim also makes money from public appearances and as a product spokesperson.

This phenomenon of young women attempting to becoming famous by accidentally-on-purpose leaking their nude photos or sex tapes has become so commonplace in Hollywood that it no longer even raises eyebrows. I guess when you’re short on talent (as the 4’11” Bailon and the 5’2″ Kardashian are), you have to take extreme measures…