Playboy Playmate
A Playmate is a female model featured in the centerfold/gatefold of Playboy magazine as Playmate of the Month (PMOTM). The PMOTM's pictorial includes nude photographs and a centerfold poster, along with a pictorial biography and the "Playmate Data Sheet", which lists her birthdate, measurements, turn-ons, and turn-offs. At the end of the year, one of the 12 Playmates of the Month is named Playmate of the Year (PMOTY). Every Playmate of the Month is awarded a prize of US$25,000 and each Playmate of the Year receives an additional prize of US$100,000 plus a car (on a short-term lease)[1] and other discretionary gifts. In addition, Anniversary Playmates are usually chosen to celebrate a milestone year of the magazine. The use of the word "Playmate" in a sexual sense did not originate with Playboy, and was seen at least as early as 1950 in Vue magazine (vol 1, #1).
Playboy encourages potential Playmates to send photos with "girl next door" appeal for consideration; others may submit photos of Playmate candidates, and may be eligible for a finder's fee if their model is selected. In addition, "casting calls" are held regularly in major US cities to offer opportunities for women to test for Playboy. Until just prior to the death of Hugh Hefner, he personally selected each Playmate of the Month and every Playmate of the Year, taking into account an annual readers' poll.
The final Playmate of the Month was published digitally in December 2020. Playboy also ended the Playmate of the Year title in 2020, instead awarding all 2019 Playmates the shared title of Playmates of the Year. All 2020 Playmates were given yearbook superlatives rather than a PMOTY title.
In 2021, Playboy digitally published two quarterly Playmates. No Playmates have been published since Miss Spring 2021, Hailee Lautenbach.
According to Playboy, there is no such thing as a former Playmate because "Once a Playmate, always a Playmate".[2]
History
Underage nudity
Several playmates – including
Some women have become Playmates in their 30s. Dolores Donlon (August 1957) is the oldest Playmate to date, appearing in her shoot at the age of 36.[4]
Playmate firsts
- First Playmate: Margie Harrison (Miss January 1954) in the second issue of Playboy. Marilyn Monroe, who was featured in the first issue, was the only one to appear as "Sweetheart of the Month".[5][6]
- First Playmate to be chosen three times: Marilyn Waltz(Miss February 1954, April 1954, and April 1955 – her first appearance was as Margaret Scott)
- First and only month between 1954 and 2020 to not have a Playmate – March 1955 (no issue published)
- First centerfold (two-page): Janet Pilgrim (Miss July 1955)
- First fold-out centerfold (three-page): Marian Stafford (Miss March 1956)[6]
- First foreign-born Playmate: Marion Scott (Miss May 1956) was born in Germany.
- Youngest Playmate ever featured: Elizabeth Ann Roberts (Miss January 1958) appeared at age 16.[7]
- First issue to feature two Playmates (two in the same month, in separate photos): Pat Sheehan and Mara Corday (Misses October 1958)
- First Playmate to become Playmate of the Year (1960): Ellen Stratton (Miss December 1959)[8]
- First Asian-American Playmate: China Lee (Miss August 1964)[9]
- First African-American Playmate: Jennifer Jackson (Miss March 1965)[10]
- First twin Playmates Mary Collinson and Madeleine Collinson (Miss October 1970)[11]
- First Playmate to show clearly visible Melodye.Prentiss(Miss July 1968);
- First Playmate to pose for a full frontal nude centerfold: Marilyn Cole (Miss January 1972)[13]
- First Playmate to pose for a full frontal nude centerfold with clearly visible entire pubic hair: Bonnie Large (Miss March 1973)
- First
- First cousins to be Playmates: Karen Elaine Morton(Miss July 1978)
- First Lonny Chin was also the magazine centerfold in the January 1983 issue.[15]
- First mother and daughter to be Playmates: Carol Eden (Miss December 1960) and her daughter Simone Eden(Miss February 1989)
- First African-American Playmate of the Year: Renee Tenison (1990 and Miss November 1989)[16]
- First triplets to be Playmates: Erica, Nicole and Jaclyn Dahm (Misses December 1998)
- First Playmate to pose with shaved pubic area: Dalene Kurtis (Miss September 2001)
- First Raquel Pomplun (2013 and Miss April 2012)[17]
- First openly transgender Playmate: Ines Rau (Miss November 2017)[18][19][20]
- First amputee Playmate: Marsha Elle (Miss April 2020)[21]
- First digital-only Playmate: Priscilla Huggins (Miss July 2020)[22][23]
- First quarterly Playmate: Isabela Guedes (Miss Winter 2021)[24]
Playmate of the Year
In the early days of Playboy, there was no official prize for the most popular Playmate at the end of each year. Although February 1954 Playmate
A PMOTY makes her appearance the year following her first appearance as PMOTM. This feature is usually published in the June issue, although sometimes it has been published in the May or July issue. Until 2003, each year's Playmate of the Year would routinely appear on the cover of her PMOTY issue, in which her PMOTY pictorial is featured. However, from 2003 to 2005, PMOTYs did not appear on the covers of their PMOTY issues, and 2007 PMOTY
The average age of a Playmate of the Year, 23.5 years, is slightly higher than that of a Playmate of the Month, 22.4 years.[25][27] In 1964, at the age of 18, Donna Michelle became the youngest PMOY ever. Jo Collins (1965) and Christa Speck (1962) both were 19. Sharon Clark (1971), Karen McDougal (1998) and Ida Ljungqvist (2009) became PMOTY at the age of 27. Only three women became PMOTY in their 30s: Tiffany Fallon (2005) at 31, Kathy Shower (1986) at 33, and Eugena Washington (2016) at 31.
Notable Playmates
Playmates who attained fame for reasons in addition to their Playboy appearance(s) include (with the date of their appearance):
- Pamela Anderson (February 1990), actress
- children's book author, mayor of Telscombe, East Sussex, England
- Bebe Buell (November 1974), author and mother of Liv Tyler
- Guess? Jeans; also Fox Sportscorrespondent
- Daphnée Duplaix (July 1997), actress
- Celebrity Apprentice
- Erika Eleniak (July 1989), actress
- Lindsey Gayle Evans (October 2009), Miss Louisiana Teen USA2008
- Celebrity Apprenticecontestant.
- Lena Forsén (November 1972), her image would later become a ubiquitous standard test image in the field of digital image processing, where the image is known as Lenna
- Claudia Jennings (November 1969), actress
- Entourage, and Weezer's " Beverly Hills" music video.
- Connie Kreski (January 1968), actress
- Angela Little (August 1998), actress
- Jayne Mansfield (February 1955), singer and actress
- Shae Marks (May 1994), actress
- Jenny McCarthy (October 1993), actress, author, comedian; MTV's Singled Out
- Julie McCullough (February 1986), actress – played nanny "Julie Costello" on several episodes of Growing Pains until she was fired for having posed nude in Playboy.
- Shanna Moakler (December 2001), Miss USA 1995, ex-wife of Travis Barker, and co-star of reality TV show Meet the Barkers
- Dancing with the Stars reality show in 2005, long-running actress of General Hospital
- Cynthia Myers (December 1968), actress
- The Price Is Right
- Celebrity Apprenticecontestant
- Shauna Sand (May 1996), actress
- Nikki Schieler(September 1997), actress
- Anna Nicole Smith (May 1992), Guess jeans model, actress, wife, and later widow, of J. Howard Marshall.
- Victoria Silvstedt (December 1996), Swedish supermodel, actress, radio and TV hostess, published singer, and a former national-level skier in Sweden
- Martha Smith (July 1973), actress
- Stella Stevens (January 1960), actress
- Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story(1981)
- Jeana Tomasino ("Jeana Keough") (November 1980), actress, model, original cast member of The Real Housewives of Orange County, and client on Thintervention with Jackie Warner
- Shannon Tweed (November 1981), actress co-star of reality-TV show Gene Simmons Family Jewels
- America's Next Top Model (cycle 7)contestant
- Kelly Wearstler ("Kelly Gallagher") (September 1994), designer
- adult movieperformer
- sex therapist; second model to appear as centerfold for both Playboy and Penthouse
Photographers
Arny Freytag holds the record as the photographer who has captured the highest number of Playmates in Playboy's history,[28] while Ana Dias is the female photographer recognized for photographing the most Playmates of the Month.[29]
See also
- List of people in Playboy 1953–1959
- List of people in Playboy 1960–1969
- List of people in Playboy 1970–1979
- List of people in Playboy 1980–1989
- List of people in Playboy 1990–1999
- List of people in Playboy 2000–2009
- List of people in Playboy 2010–2019
- List of Playboy Playmates of the Month
- List of Playboy videos
- List of Playmates of the Year
- Playboy lists
- Playboy Bunny
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- ^ Nolasco, Stephanie (December 15, 2021). "Marilyn Cole, Playboy's first full-frontal nude centerfold, recalls racy shoot: 'It allowed me to be free'". Fox News. Retrieved November 18, 2022.
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- ^ "Who Is Raquel Pomplun? 5 Things to Know About the 2013 Playboy Playmate of the Year". US Magazine. May 13, 2013. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
- ^ France, Lisa Respers (October 20, 2017). "Ines Rau is the first transgender Playmate". CNN.
- ^ "Playboy Debuts First Transgender Playmate, Ines Rau". The Blast. October 19, 2017.
- ^ @Playboy (October 18, 2017). "'Being a woman is just being a woman'. Meet November 2017 Playmate Ines Rau, the first transgender Playmate" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Amputee model Marsha Elle recalls seeing her photos in Playboy: It shook me to my core". Fox News. May 15, 2020.
- ^ "Bad Bunny makes Playboy history with new cover". CNN. July 8, 2020.
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- ^ Fussman, Cal (January 29, 2007). "Arny Freytag: What I've Learned". Esquire. Retrieved October 4, 2023.
- ^ Carrasco, Tiago (September 26, 2022). "A máquina de fotografar "coelhinhas"". Sábado (in European Portuguese). Retrieved October 4, 2023.
Other sources
- Edgren, Gretchen (1996). The Playmate Book: Five Decades of Centerfolds. ISBN 1-57544-128-4.
- Edgren, Gretchen; ISBN 3-8228-4824-7.