A.J. McLean Poses In Black Dress And Pumps For Photographer Tyler Shields

A.J. Mclean is ready for his close-up, it just turns out that his close-up makes him more prepared to join a girls group then a boy band.

Channeling his inner drag queen the Backstreet Boys singer put on a black tulle dress and a pair of black Loub pumps this week to pose for photographer Tyler Shields.

Throw in some black nail polish and a cigarette and you essentially have the A.J. McLean photo shoot.

McLean and Shields are good friends, in fact it was Tyler who photographed McLean just a few days before his wedding last December.

The photo (pictured above) was posted with the caption “It takes a real man to be a [woman]!”

Shields tells Eonline of the shoot:

“We always talked of doing something kinda crazy,” says Shields, who came up with the idea of shooting McLean in drag to commemorate the union. It was a full-on production: A stylist got him the dress, and the shoes were custom-ordered. (“Like size 11 or 12,” Shields remembers.)

“I wanted to take him to the dirtiest, grimiest place I possibly could,” Shields says. “I made him walk down Skid Row in heels like that.”

Would you be willing to put on a dress and pumps for a world famous photographer?