Even though Kim Kardashian now says, “I’m glad I did them,” about the photos for W magazine, the recent episode of her new E! reality show portrayed otherwise. On the latest episode of Kourtney & Kim Take New York, Kim gets teary-eyed about the amount of nudity the magazine showed of her in the November issue.

Even though she doesn’t regret it now, she sure was upset about it when the show taped. A W magazine spokeswoman told New York’s fashion blog, the Cut, about the issue, “In keeping in line with the theme of W Magazine’s November Art Issue, Kim Kardashian’s cover was conceived as an artistic collaboration with well-known artist Barbara Kruger, and was a meditation on the influence that reality TV has on contemporary culture.”

So while Kim originally saw the photos on the pages inside the magazine as borderline porn, W magazine sees it as art. The spokeswoman added, “The inside portfolio documented the career and power of Kim Kardashian as a work of art, using the language of artists like Jeff Koons…and Gilbert & George.”