In July, lifestyle guru Martha Stewart posted a selfie she later dubbed an "accidental" glam shot. Naturally, the photo of the 79-year-old went viral. 

On Friday's episode of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," stand-in host Howie Mandel asked if Stewart got any Zoom dates as a result of posting the photo. But the icon said she got something much more serious than just a link to join a virtual date. 

"Oh, I got so many proposals and you know so many propositions," she said. "But I had to ignore all of them. I'm a very busy person."

Social-media users were calling the in-pool photo a thirst trap, a term Stewart said she learned because of the excitement around her post. Now, though, she says she's still not sure what that means. 

"You're a thirst trap," Mandel started to explain. "You look hot and I couldn't stop looking at the picture and look at you. Look at you! You're stunning, you really are. And you're amazing."

Stewart, still confused, replied by asking, "So it makes you thirsty?"

She seemed to get it more, though, when the "America's Got Talent" judge put it this way: "People thirst to [look at] that picture."

In a November interview with People magazine, Stewart said she actually snapped the photo by accident. 

"I took a pool selfie photo by mistake," she said. "I was trying to take a picture of the beautiful turquoise planter at the end of the pool, but the camera was on me, so I just snapped it. It looked so good, so I posted it." 

The post now has nearly 243,000 likes and is filled with comments from followers who are gushing over the look Stewart was serving.

Other celebrities also reacted to Stewart's selfie. Reese Witherspoon called her a "Stunner!" while comedian Chelsea Handler posted a copycat photo. 

You can watch Stewart's appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" with Mandel below:

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