Rachael Ray has taken a lot of heat over the years for this racy photo spread for men’s mag FHM in 2003, but despite the backlash from fans and her mother’s anger over the photos, the popular daytime TV show host tells ABC’s Nightline “I’d do it again tomorrow.”

Ray was 35 when she posed for the pictures. “I thought about it for a while, and I said, ‘You know what? This magazine has as young as 17-, 18-year-olds in hottie bikinis, and these are all actresses, models, pin-up girls. I don’t belong to any even remote club of theirs,” Ray tells Nightline’s Cynthia MCFadden.

“And I thought, ‘If I’m gutsy enough to do this, this is a good thing for everybody. This is the everywoman, here she is,’ she added. “And I did it, and it was the most scared I’ve ever been, and I wouldn’t change a thing. I’d do it again tomorrow.”

Check out Rachael Ray’s 2003 FHM photos and Nightline video below and let us know what you think — gutsy or inappropriate?

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