Rachael Ray new Nightline interview and Rachael Ray FHM racy photos

Rachel Ray shot a 2003 FHM photo spread  (AP)

Rachael Ray may not be someone people normally associate with racy pictures, but she does have some.

What makes this a bit different than other celebrity sexy photos is she didn’t take them herself:  they were taken for a magazine. 

Ray did a racy photo shoot for FHM back in 2003. When the sexy pictures first came out, they raised a few eyebrows but quickly went away – until today! 

Ray is asked about the sexy photos on a Nightline interview (see Video below) where she is at first unsure which photos she is being asked about and then states, “bring them on” 

She said when the food network first told her of the request she didn’t even know what FHM was, what it stood for. Here’s some of Ray’s response to the sexy FHM photo’s:

 I think I was 35 at the time, 34, 35 at the time, and 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.’

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. And I thought ‘what the heck’ I asked my husband what he thought about it and he [giggles] says ‘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.”

Will FHM (or other magazines) take her ‘I’d do it again tomorrow’ as fact and call her up for a new set of Sexy Rachel Ray photos?