Jacinda Ardern opens up about unsolicited nude photos

Jacinda Ardern is New Zealand's most powerful woman, but she's revealed that even that hasn't stopped men from sending her unsolicited – ahem – nude images.

Chatting with a local radio station, the New Zealand Prime Minister admitted that despite having a "pretty tame life," she has received lewd photos over social media.

The show's hosts were discussing new laws in the US that would see people fined $500 for sending unsolicited nude photos when Ardern told of her own experience with such pics.

"Someone while I've been a politician tweeted a pretty - lewd doesn't even capture what that photo [was]," she said over the radio.

Explaining that the image was seriously saucy, she went on to say that the awkward exchange happened some time ago, though didn't reveal whether it was before she became Prime Minister.

"The thing that surprised me the most was there was quite a recognisable tattoo," Ardern added.

"If you're gonna do something anonymously don't have any identifying body features."

Dubbing the man's confusing decision to send her an unsolicited photo of his genitals "a massive fail," Ardern laughed as the hosts joked about the incident.

Most women know what it's like to receive an unexpected and unwanted photos of some dude's bits, so it's nice – and also a bit sad – to know that even a woman like Ardern has had to deal with such nonsense.

Thankfully Ardern seems to have brushed the incident off, but made it clear that sort of thing was "a bit low" in her books.

So here's a note to all the blokes out there who have ever considered sending an unsolicited photo of their genitals to a woman: just don't do it.

Especially not if she's the Prime Minister.