NEW YORK -- Lindsay Lohan is following in the footsteps of the most famous blond bombshell of them all -- Marilyn Monroe.

In this week's issue of New York magazine, the 21-year-old star of "Mean Girls" and "Freaky Friday" poses nude for photographer Bert Stern in a re-creation of one of Monroe's most famous photo shoots, done shortly before she died.

The shoot came to be known as "The Last Sitting."

Lohan's shoot appears in the Spring Fashion issue of New York magazine, which hit newsstands Tuesday.

Lohan told the magazine that she was "comfortable" with posing nude, but added that she did "250 crunches" the night before the shoot.

According to the magazine, Lohan sees the Monroe photos -- and by extension her own -- as a way of regaining power.

"Here is a woman who is giving herself to the public," Lohan said. "She's saying, 'Look, you've taken a lot from me, so why don't I give it to you myself.' She's taking control back."

Lohan, whose personal troubles dominated headlines last year, called Monroe's demise "tragic."

"You know, it's also tragic what just recently happened to someone else," Lohan told the magazine. When the publication asked Lohan if she was referring to Heath Ledger, the actress said, "They are both prime examples of what this industry can do to someone."

"I sure as hell wouldn’t let it happen to me," Lohan also told the magazine, contemplating a similar fate.

Stern photographed Monroe in 1962 at the Hotel Bel-Air in California, six weeks before she was found dead from an overdose of barbiturates. Monroe was 36.

Those images for Vogue magazine feature Monroe in next to nothing, posing nude with some scarves and jewelry as her accessories and sipping champagne.

Stern recreated those images with Lohan this month, at the same hotel, with Lohan wearing a blond wig and not much else.

Amanda Fortini, who wrote an essay to accompany the Lohan photos, said that the original Monroe photos are "arguably the most famous images ever captured of America's most famous actress."