Melissa Joan Hart is still casting spells long after her days as Sabrina the Teenage Witch. She joined the “Sibling Revelry” podcast to reflect on some of the decisions that made her career, including a decision to not appear in Playboy. The opportunity occurred in 1999, and by then she’d already made a nearly career-killing mistake when she agreed to pose topless for Maxim magazine. It was a move that nearly cost her the role in “Sabrina, the Teenage Witch” with allegations that it broke a clause in her contract against nudity and caused a lot of family turmoil.

“I did Maxim magazine once and my brother was pretty young, he was like in middle school or high school, and I did Maxim magazine and he and my father were both being tortured by people at work going like ‘Look at your daughter! Look at your sister!’ And then Playboy magazine came and asked me to do something, and I was like, ‘I can’t do it,” she told hosts Kate and Oliver Hudson. Hart was 23 at the time of her Maxim appearance. According to Hart, Playboy offered her “a lot of money.”

Hart shared that she’s had no qualms with her own body image at the time . “And I would have been willing to do it because I was like, I’m not ashamed of my body. I’m proud of my body. I’m fine with that,” she said. The decision not to, however, has had long-term benefits given that Hart, 49, is now the mother of three boys. She expressed relief that the images aren’t out there for her boys. “Kind of happy I made that choice for my brother, which then also translates to my children,” she said. “I always kind of knew that that would be a correlation that someday I would have children, what do I want them to see? And I kind of played that through my sibling’s eyes.”

Hart was able to keep her role as Sabrina after issuing an apology, stating she had done the shoot as a way to promote her new movie, “Drive Me Crazy,” without any idea the shoot would mention her role as Sabrina. She referred to the Maxim shoot as the “least professional moment” of her career. She reflected on her family’s impact on making her career decisions. “My siblings have always been my sort of, my guiding light…What do I want to portray for them? And, you know, I don’t want to embarrass them. I don’t want to hurt them,” she said. “I want to be able to share things with them. So, you know, I’ve always kind of built my career based around my siblings, which then leads to my children…So, kind of in a careful way of crafting things so that, you know, I never am embarrassed about anything I’ve done or said or shown.”