After the frenzy caused by Lindsay Lohan's topless tribute to Marilyn Monroe, more sensational pictures have surfaced. Sporting a blonde wig, Lohan was covered only by a sheer printed sheet in a bid to recreate Marilyn's final photoshoot before her death. The shoot was done by famed photographer Bert Stern, who also photographed Monroe's The Last Sitting in - she was found dead from an apparent drugs overdose just six weeks later. Lohan said she was "comfortable" with the nude shoot, but admitted she had done sit-ups the night before to prepare. Seeing spots: Lohan adopts a sultry pose as she attempts to recreate Marilyn's sexy photoshoot. Rave reviews: The year-old Mean Girls star has won critical acclaim for her decision to recreate poses by Sixties icon Monroe.
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Six weeks after she had posed, Monroe was found dead of an apparent barbiturate overdose. But the pictures are also remarkable for the raw truths they seem to reveal. In them, we see an actress whose comedic talents were overshadowed by her sex appeal, a woman who is cannily aware of her pinup status, yet is also beginning to show her 36 years. In many shots, she is obviously drunk. This was an unhappy time for Monroe. Stern excavated and preserved the poignant humanity of the real woman—beautiful, but also fragile, needy, flawed—from the monumental sex symbol.
Lindsay Lohan as Marilyn Monroe in ‘The Last Sitting’
Despite having no new film or album to promote, Lindsay Lohan has appeared in an extensive photo shoot for New York Magazine , recreating images from screen icon Marilyn Monroe's last photo shoot. Lohan appears partially nude in several of the photos taken by Bert Stern, the photographer who took the famous series of photos of Monroe for Vogue magazine in Despite the revealing nature of the pictures, Lohan says she was not apprehensive about doing the shoot.
Despite her dark tresses, Lindsay Lohan clearly fancies herself as a blonde bombshell - why else recreate the final photoshoot of the most famous blonde of all, Marilyn Monroe, for New York magazine? Wearing just a wig and strategically laced pink chiffon, Li-Lo posed for Bert Stern. He was the photographer behind the iconic nude shoot of Marilyn, now known as The Last Sitting because, six weeks later, the movie legend was dead. Was Lindsay spooked out? You bet!