Actress Brittany Murphy has stripped to the bare minimum for men's magazine Maxim and says that she has done it for the benefit of American troops.

"The reason that I chose to do this was because the magazine was kind enough to put a pin-up inside for the troops," Contactmusic.com quoted Ashton Kutcher's ex-girl as saying.

"My cousin is overseas right now and he's a Marine. Maxim's doing a very kind thing in which they're sending, I believe, over 20,000 magazines overseas - and to our Bravehearts in the States," she said.