Backstage.com reports that Emily Stern, daughter of King of All Pottymouths Howard Stern, has quit her role in the Jewish Theater of New York’s production of Kabbalah because its final scene requires her to get nude. (That’s right, apparently Kabbalah isn’t just for the tabloids and bloggity fodder anymore — it’s the-a-ter, dahling. That doesn’t make it any less awful, according to the NY Times.)

It wasn’t that Ms. Stern was feeling prudish; she’s starred in the show since November as a Madonna-ish character (see the big ‘E’ for ‘Esther’?), with sworn secrecy from the director about her true identity. But fans of her father’s got wind that their idol’s little girl was getting naked nightly off-Broadway, putting up nasty comments on their blogs, and she became scared that these guys (because aren’t all of Howard Stern’s fans male?) would storm the show just to take exploitive photos of her.

Probably a good call, girl.

But walking out in the middle of a run will likely ruin her reputation as a “serious” actress. No matter — she appears to have many other talents.

Photo c/o Howardshrine.com, which may or may not be one of the sites that made Emily so nervous.