Lynne Tziolas, Australian Teacher Naked on a Magazine, Feels The Heat
- Lynne Tziolas, Australian Primery School Teacher, Posed Naked for a Magazine.
A school teacher, Lynne Tziolas displayed her naked body in a dirty magazine – a choice that has cost her her job, thousands of dollars in earnings and her health.
Since the row that erupted when she appeared in Cleo, Lynne Tziolas is seeing a psychiatrist, cannot visit her local shops without sniggers from passers-by and is suing the state for compensation.
Unable to find the confidence to return to a classroom, she is working just one day a week for an information technology corporation while preparing a claim against the Department of Education and Training.
Lynne Tziolas, 25, said her life was devastated after she was fired during the uproar that followed publication of photos of her and spouse Antonios in a naked hug in the sealed section of Cleo headed, “Buck naked, where couples talk about their sex lives”.
In an accompanying article the couple discussed their sex life, including which positions they preferred and what “toys” they used.
“I still go down to the local shops and hear people talking,” she said yesterday.
“I went out with a friend to Dee Why one night and heard a bloke say, ‘That’s the teacher who got sacked’.”
Ms Tziolas, of Church Point in Sydney’s north, was unable to return to Narraweena Public School despite petitions of support from parents.
She rejected offers to teach at other schools and has not entered a classroom since May last year.
“I am . . . formulating a statement of claim against the department. We’ve been given potential options and are waiting for a meeting with our solicitor to see where we can go,” she said.
“If you question the (education) department they will say, ‘We love our teachers, we protect them, we offer them counselling’ but that’s as long as it’s pro their agenda.
“I’m not a greedy person but when I’m waking up every morning border line on having an anxiety attack and the only way that gets me through it is taking my morning meds . . . that’s an issue.”
Tziolas could not put a figure on a potential compensation payout.
