Lindsay Lohan's nude Marilyn Monroe-inspired pictorial has been given the seal of approval by her manager-mother, Dina.

The Mean Girls actress strips off for the new issue of New York magazine in a recreation of the screen legend’s legendary final photo shoot, The Last Sitting.

And – surprise, surprise – Dina has something to say about it.

"It was very tastefully done," she tells People. "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."

Dina reveals that she allowed Lindsay's younger sister, Ali, to visit the set.

"Trust me," she adds. "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."