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In an interview with ABC’s “Nightline”, TV talk host and chef Rachael Ray defends her sexy FHM photo shoot in 2003. Since then, Ray has turned into a domestic TV diva with her daytime TV show, magazine and Food Channel cooking shows.  She even has a line of cookware that is…, let’s just say,… not cheap.

Of course all this happened after the sexy FHM photo spread and when talking about whether she would do it again or not, Ray said “Yes.”

Nice. Of course this means we have to let you view the Rachael Ray FHM photos.

Rachael Ray spoke to “Nightline” co-anchor Cynthia McFadden recently, and she defended (among other things) her decision to pose provocatively in lad mag FHM.

“I thought if I’m gutsy enough to do this, this is a good thing for everybody,” Ray said of being 35 and asked to pose in the magazine in 2003. “This is the everywoman, here she is. And I thought, what the heck? I asked my husband what he thought of it and he said, oh, kinda cool. 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.”

Ray also said her mother “remains furious” over her decision to participate in the shoot, and that she initially thought FHM stood for “Food and Home” not “For Him Magazine