Julia Louis-Dreyfus reflects on her viral Rolling Stone cover 10 years later — and reveals if it was her idea

Julia Louis-Dreyfus was all game for her viral 2014 Rolling Stone cover, despite being nervous.

Ten years after posing nude for the magazine, the 63-year-old actor reflects on the experience in an exclusive TODAY.com excerpt of the premiere episode of Lemonada Media’s new podcast, “My So-Called Midlife.”

“It’s funny because Mark Seliger — the wonderful, extraordinary photographer with whom I’ve worked a number of times, as a matter of fact — took this,” Louis-Dreyfus tells host “Girls Who Code” founder Reshma Saujani. “And there have been more than (one) occasions that I’m in a photo studio with him, and the next thing you know, I’m taking my clothes off. And that is not, by the way, who I am. Personally, I’m just not.”

The Rolling Stone cover features a then-53-year-old “Seinfeld” star in the flesh with the United States Constitution “tattooed” on her back, her hair down and looking over her shoulder. It reads, “The First Lady of Comedy” in bold letters.

“I also didn’t realize that so much of my ass was gonna be in this,” she quips. “I trusted him to do me OK. I mean, I liked the concept.”

When asked whose idea the bold photoshoot was, Louis-Dreyfus replies, “I want to say it was my idea.”

“It was either (Seliger) or mine. But we conferred prior to this because we had to get somebody to do this pretend tattoo on my back, which took a lot of time to get that right.”

Saujani describes the photo as having “shifted the conversation about aging and sexiness, because you were undeniably hot.”

The “Veep” star questions the comment, thanking Saujani, but adding, “I’m not sure it really shifted the conversation. Do you really think that?”

Saujani explains how in her opinion, it “started a trend of older women accepting their bodies, feeling more comfortable, feeling sexy in their middle age.”

On her end, Louis-Dreyfus calls the photoshoot “a solid idea” and was “game” for what she had to do.

The Emmy winner previously commented on her headline-making cover, tweeting in April 2014, “In my defense, 'I was in a drunken stupor' #crackexcuse.”

“My So-Called Midlife,” premieres Wednesday, Oct. 16 on all major podcast platforms. The podcast, according to the press release, “aims to help middle-aged women answer the question: Is this it? and navigate midlife with purpose and fulfillment.” New episodes will be released weekly.

This article was originally published on TODAY.com