Joe Francis '90 percent sure' Blake Lively leaked her own photos

A few days ago, five alleged photographs of actress Blake Lively posing nude in front of a mirror leaked throughout the internet.

Lively instantly said that the photos were fake and threatened to press charges against the publications that originally published the pictures. A day after, 17 additional photos circulated.

However, Joe Francis (Girls Gone Wild producer), thinks the whole thing is a set-up.

"I would say 90 percent it's an orchestrated attempt or act on her part [to raise her profile]. I'm not sure, but my inclination is that it's coming from her. She knows what she's doing or someone in her camp does," explained Francis.

Francis says that the actress has received a wide variety of coverage and pointed out Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton and Pamela Anderson as examples of celebrities who shot to fame after their sex tapes.

Francis explained just how Lively is about to become a star: "She'll be fine. Once you become a sex symbol and a symbol of sexuality, people start Googling you - and by the way, 95 percent of all searches done on the Internet are sex-related. Then they start tracking you, looking at you and then women become interested in you as person, because men are, and that catapults you into celebrity.”