My celebrity news alerts went crazy today with stories of Lindsay Lohan's nude pictorial in the spring fashion issue of New York magazine. The photos are a recreation on a 1962 shoot with Marilyn Monroe and from what I've seen of them, they are lovely. But what does Lindsay's mom think of seeing such risqué photos of her 21-year-old daughter?

For starters, she doesn't think they are risqué, telling People that she felt it was perfectly appropriate for Lindsay's 14-year-old sister Ali to be on set during the shoot. "Trust me," says Dina Lohan, "I wouldn't have sent my 14-year-old to the set [if the shoot was in bad taste]. And obviously Lindsay wouldn't do anything with her sister there, that was risqué."

So, how does it feel for a mother to see her young daughter recreating the poses of a sexual icon? "It was very tastefully done," Dina says. "I respect the photographer as an artist, so I look at them artistically. For him to call Lindsay 46 years later and to say can you recreate these photos is an honor. I looked at it as art, and as Lindsay doing a character. So I don't look at them like it's Playboy; she was being a character. So if you look at it that way, you can look at it as a mother."