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An artist who bore one of Lucian Freud s children and became his muse has revealed she cried when he painted her and felt trapped by the artist. Indian-born British artist Celia Paul was 18 when she met the 55-year-old Freud in 1978 and gave an account of their relationship to London Review of Books. She said Freud, her first lover, was drawn to neurotic … vulnerable female artists who he would dump when they became too needy . Speaking about her own experience with Freud, she recounted how she modelled for Naked Girl with Egg, After Watteau, Girl in a Striped Nightshirt, Painter and Model and one other painting. ....