Lindsay Lohan continues to court controversy. The actress recently posed as Jesus Christ for the cover of French fashion magazine Purple’s Spring Summer 2010 issue.

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In the shot taken by Gucci photographer Terry Richardson, the Mean Girls star is pictured draped in a plunging white robe, wearing a crown of thorns with her arms stretched out in a crucifix-like position.

She is following in her father Michael’s biblical footsteps- he dressed as Joseph in a Times Square nativity scene a couple of years ago.

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Lohan, 23, has a well-documented passion for fashion, working as the as artistic director for designer Emmanuel Ungaro last year.

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In the Purple issue, Lohan dons clothes by Ungaro, as well as designers Zac Posen and Alexander McQueen.