The dozen swimmers, divers, water polo players and one member of the synchronised swimming squad got together for this exclusive — and daring — photo-shoot.
Diver Tonia Couch, 21, from Plymouth, the same town as Britain’s top medal hope, schoolboy diver Tom Daley, admitted her boyfriend had his doubts about it.
‘When I told him what we were doing, he said: “What? Naked?”’
Twenty-one-year-old Stacey Tadd, a 200 metres breaststroke swimmer from Bath, took along her mum for moral support.
Water polo player Lisa Gibson, 21, said: ‘I wasn’t nervous about being naked in front of the camera.
‘I was more worried about how I was going to breathe and smile at the same time.’
Also in the picture is Stephanie Millward, a paralympic swimmer who has battled multiple sclerosis.
Two divers were on standby with oxygen masks as the girls posed for the Mail’s Andy Hooper, who used £10,000 worth of camera gear — a Nikon D300 encased in a watertight Subal housing.
Each girl had to be photographed individually because it would have been too chaotic to try to capture them all at once.
They were then ‘placed’ in a group by some computer wizardry.
The photo-shoot was carried out to back the girls’ Olympic dream, sponsored by the National Lottery and British Gas.
The Lottery is supporting more than 1,200 athletes for 2012, as well as contributing up to £2.2 billion to the Olympic venues.