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Houston is a steel and glass megalopolis on the Texas Gulf Coast, known worldwide

as the capital of the oil and gas industry.

It's also home to Enron. On December 3, 2001, the energy giant filed for

bankruptcy and fired over 4,000 people.

On Friday, the New York Stock Exchange halted trading in Enron.

So when Playboy announced they intended to shoot a Women of Enron pictorial, The

news touched off controversy.

What sells is what's in the news, and right now that's what's in the news. It

also generated an outpouring of photographs from current and former

Enron employees who wanted to appear in the magazine.

From those 300 hopefuls, Playboy selected the women of Enron.

Christine Nielsen.

Lori Hodges.

Carrie Lorenzo.

Vanessa Schulte.

These are Playboy's Women of Enron.

So here's the deal. The Playboy crew is in town photographing the Women of

Enron. Over to this way. That's nice.

Playboy-themed pictorials have long been one of the magazine's most eagerly

anticipated special features.

Over the years, they've shot revealing layouts on everyone from nurses to babes

on Broadway.

Jim Larson is the photo editor responsible for many of them.

We like to tap into the American culture of the moment.

And the Enron story, while it is a business story, It is also something I

think that has intrigued the American people.

In a Playboy pictorial, location is everything, which is why photographer

Gen Machino chose to shoot in Houston.

There's an Enron building right there.

It's an open space.

Vulnerable, erotic, scary.

All these people are looking down at us, and that's what makes it good.

Beautiful.

News of the Playboy shoot swept through the town like a Texas wildfire, and

everyone had an opinion.

Would you pose for $10,000?

I would do it for nothing. I think it would be great. I've always dreamt of

doing that. Outstanding. I look forward to this September.

I think it's horrible that Enron girls are posing for Playboy.

That's a personal choice.

It's all up to them.

If I were an Enron girl and I was the material, I would do it.

If they want to pose, great for them. Hopefully, at the very least, it'll give

them some money and some confidence to where they can get on with their lives.

Unlike other Playboy pictorials, many of the women featured in the Enron layout

had lost their jobs, their retirement, and their security.

It was devastating.

It was right before Thanksgiving.

They owed me a pretty good amount of money, which I was expecting right

before Christmas.

It was probably one of the toughest times of my career.

It was not easy.

The Enron collapse affected me directly just because I was one of the 4,500

people laid off in December.

And I lost probably, I think, about 10% of my 401K was in Enron stock.

I think I probably went through a month of disbelief and then was extremely

upset. It just made me really realize that nothing's forever.

The pictorial was a way for many of the women to get back on their feet.

Playboy was very, very generous by offering us additional monies over and

above their standard fee just because of what has happened to us financially at

Enron.

I'm sick of struggling. I feel like if I didn't take the opportunity, I'd be an

idiot.

The girls that we were working with are not models.

A boyfriend has taken a snapshot.

Maybe a girl has done a little swimsuit picture for a magazine.

But they're not professional models.

We feel it's an opportunity for the girls, and I think it actually gives the

girls some freedom in a sense. They can make up their own minds. Can you just

walk backwards? Cool. That's nice. That's beautiful.

I feel very lucky to have the opportunity to pose for Playboy.

Yeah. It was a huge dream, and actually when the fall of Enron happened, I told

a man, I was like, Playboy needs to do the hotties of Enron.

Do that. That's so good.

A part of me has always wanted to be in Playboy. The girl in me that likes to

take pictures.

You look so good.

They understand what it's like to be a girl and want to have fun, and to be a

gentleman. and want to have fun with a girl.

Nice outfit.

While most of the women chosen for the layout lived in the Houston area,

Christine came from Portland.

The moment I got the phone call that said, we've selected you, and I said,

hold on a second, and I was like, oh my gosh, are you kidding? Are you sure? I

completely started freaking out. I was shocked.

I was just happy and thankful, but I was just like, this cannot be happening to

me.

Maya is a California girl.

Not in a million years did I think they were going to call back. Especially when

I called Playboy and asked the status on the article.

And they said there was 300 plus response and they wanted 8 to 10 girls.

I thought right there, no way they're going to call me back. But they did.

Terry was the last woman selected for the pictorial.

And she calls New York City home.

I was floored.

I was very excited, obviously. It's a great opportunity for any woman to

create the pages of Playboy.

I've had a couple tough breaks, and this was a good opportunity for me. I

definitely needed a break.

Beautiful.

Most of the women selected for the pictorial came from Enron's sales

department. A few were in administration, and three still work for

the company.

We were looking not only for pretty faces, but girls that had interesting

stories, a range of perhaps job titles, things that would add to the story

editorially besides photographically.

More than half the women featured in the layout are married or engaged.

Some have children.

All have one thing in common.

The men in their lives are remarkably supportive.

It's like the Hugh Hefner seal of approval.

on your girlfriend or your wife.

I've got a great support system at home. You know, a wonderful wife who's very

supportive. And my mom and my sister and everyone around me. So it's very

exciting.

My mom said that my dad can't get that issue. She basically put the law down on

that one.

But we know he will.

I'm free with my body. I love my body. So I don't have any problem with nudity

whatsoever.

When they see Janine in the magazine, they're only going to know a small,

small portion of the Jean that I know.

They won't know about her personality the way I do. They won't know about her

fun-loving nature the way I do. They won't know how she walks into a room and

just lights it up the way I do, but they'll get a sense, I hope, from the

pictures.

Tarja is a beautiful person. She belongs in Playboy magazine.

She has a great spirit.

Everybody loves her, so I know.

Playboy's readers will love her, too. Well, here's to Playboy magazine.

Yeah, a new beginning.

As the big day dawned, each of the women prepared in their own special way for

what they imagined was about to happen.

This is my morning routine, making breakfast for my honey.

Whenever I'm at home, I don't ever wear clothes.

I like to wear them. They're kind of restricting, and I just like to be free

and not wear anything.

So I walk around nothing on.

Thank you.

Sherry's a little bit reserved at first, and once she becomes comfortable, she

becomes very energetic and a lot of fun.

Good.

I'm not nervous. I'm just really anxious to get started, and I can't wait.

I'm wanting to go yesterday and tomorrow and the next day.

It's just an absolute adrenaline rush.

Part of the excitement of posing for Playboy is the opportunity, first and

foremost. And secondly, it's just very exotic, erotic, and very sensual to me.

I'm ready for some good, clean fun.

Right in bed would be just fine.

Not all the ladies were quite so confident.

I can't believe after breakfast I'm going to be posing nude for Playboy. I'm

so nervous.

I'm just like, nobody's seen me nude except for my husband, you know?

That's what I'm really scared about today. It's kind of nerve-wracking.

Did you sleep okay last night?

Um, no.

I know you were moaning and groaning in your sleep.

Ever since I decided to do this Toyboy shoot, I've been, you know, really

nervous. I just haven't been sleeping at all.

Calm down.

I know.

I've never been naked in front of more than one person at a time.

That's understandable.

I just hope that I can do well like a real model. I know they'll make me look

like one, but behind the scenes, I'm like, eh.

You don't get much bigger than Playboy.

Some of the women were a bit more pragmatic.

You know what? I've been so nervous that I'm tired of being nervous.

I just want to get it over with, basically. That's my thought.

I think that this is going to be an experience of a lifetime.

And so far, everyone has been so professional. I really don't think that

getting into the buff is going to be that hard, but we'll see in a few hours.

Have fun. I will.

With words of encouragement from boyfriends and husbands echoing in their

ears, the women of Enron left home for the adventure of a lifetime.

I have to say that I never thought in a million

years that me working at Enron would, you know, lead to me posing naked in

Playboy. I mean, who would have ever put that together?

Yeah, I think it is a turn on to pose naked because you know that there's

going to be guys looking at it.

Not everybody, you know, has this opportunity and I'm excited.

I thought anyone was going to be the ruin of us all, but it's making me the

happiest person alive.

For every model at every Playboy shoot, the first stop of the day is the makeup

artist.

In this case, Gareth Green.

Hey. Hi.

How are you?

I'm good. Nice to meet you.

You look gorgeous.

Oh, thanks.

Come on in.

And yet another Enron girl.

Come on in. The difference with this opening that's been interesting is that

the girls have come in so focused on what they have to do, and I found that

to be kind of refreshing.

Why don't you have a seat here, and you can face towards the light.

We're smoking.

It's kind of nice having someone do my hair and makeup for me.

Gareth was great.

I think he's a great way to start the day because he's just so positive and

energetic and in such a good mood, and so it makes you feel real good about

yourself. You look great. Thank you. You look great with no makeup and done. You

look terrific.

I think we should just pack up and go.

No.

That's good. That's good. That's good. Keep the tilt, and then lift your eyes

to me.

Beautiful. Good.

Each of the Enron women have unique physical attributes, and it's Gareth's

job to discover them.

Well, with Christine, I wanted to bring out the beauty of her eyes. I wanted her

eyes to pop more than anything because she has true blue eyes.

That's very rare. Good girl. Good eyes.

Good eyes. Good eyes.

I don't consider myself a terribly sexy person.

I kind of think of myself as a plain Jane, really.

Beautiful. Take your time. Nice.

In my daily life, there are some days when I'm just feeling feisty, you know,

and I do really wild eyes.

funky lips and to me it's not a sexy thing it's for me it's just a way to

express myself for that day so um it was good to feel what it you know what i can

do to make myself feel more sexy a little smile in your eyes there you go

good i heard about the women of enron on the radio and i thought could i do that

would they even want me and i thought well this may be my only chance to you

know get into playboy for christine the transformation was symbolic of other

changes in her life

I'm in a time of transition in my life. I'm like, I never imagined.

You know, leaving Enron, that was a big step.

Deciding that I wanted to get married was a big step. And now this.

Perfect.

Christine is a great person. I mean, she's definitely marriage material

there. Quit it.

We love you too.

Definitely.

Jesus Christ, I suck at this.

The man in my life, his name's Jesse, and he was my high school sweetheart.

I love her very much. I made up my mind a long time ago that this was the only

girl for me.

Jesse and I love to go hiking, and Oregon is the best place to do that.

There are so many fabulous trails and waterfalls. One of our favorite places

to go is Multnomah Falls, and it's just the most spectacular view of...

what everything Oregon encompasses, the trees, the water, the purity, and it's

just really great.

Yeah, we go hiking quite a bit. We got the ocean, the mountains, the forest. We

got everything in Oregon.

Who do you think will be doing this in Italy?

Jesse feels wonderful about me being in the magazine.

Cool.

Good. And then when I was selected, he thought that was just the neatest thing.

He said, you know, who wouldn't want to be married to someone who isn't white?

I can't wait until the issue comes out. I mean, that'll be one of the greatest

things that ever happened to me.

Makeup and hair aren't Garrett's only job.

On a shoot such as this, where the models are not professionals, his most

important responsibility is friend, mentor, and cheerleader to each of the

women. That's a package deal.

I think you're enjoying this.

It's fun. How can I not enjoy this?

You're a beautiful woman with nice skin. I need to bond with the model. I want

them to know that they can trust me.

So far, so good?

Good. Good.

And we have to bond, whether it be as friends, as a brother, as a father

-daughter type figure, as girlfriends.

Look at this girl's hair.

What a goddess.

It's making my blush.

Whatever works, I've got to go with that.

I'll be your friend for the day. Your best friend will look out for you, too.

So you're going to be around the whole time? I'll be with you all day.

That enables them to perform better. That enables them to relax.

And that way we get the best picture. I love that.

So what's it like for someone that's not necessarily a professional model to have

people doing what I'm doing to you, rubbing, spraying you, rubbing you down,

touching you up?

I love it. You like it, huh?

I like it a lot.

While it does help, all the bonding in the world can't really prepare the girls

for what comes next.

Getting naked in front of a bunch of strangers.

I'm not used to it yet, but I can tell once we get going, I'll go with the flow

and feel better.

Good. Nice.

That's beautiful. Good.

I'm starting to feel more comfortable being exposed.

The worst part of the day is when they told me, take my clothes off right there

in the middle of the floor in front of everybody.

I couldn't believe it. Okay, get naked.

Here's your outfit.

That's the whole thing. This is the whole thing.

In addition to producing Playboy's Women of Enron shoot, Debbie May is also the

production's wardrobe stylist.

It's her job to get the girls undressed.

Okay, this is actually a belt, a crazy belt. We're going to put this around

your waist.

Well, when the girl gets naked for the first time, it's a scary moment for

them, although with Taria, we had a light situation, and they had to go, and

I just looked at her, and I said, get naked.

And she did.

You know, when Gen's photographing you, you can play around with this. Is she

kidding?

That's what I was going to ask. I thought Debbie was being funny.

But no one else laughed, so why hesitate?

The more you hesitate, the worse it is. It's like jumping into a pool.

I just was like, okay, what?

I'll just put this up against her. Tell me what you think.

For a minute, she was like, oh, my God, I'm really doing this. I think that was

her thought. But she was great. She was a trooper. She got naked. It was

perfect. She looks great.

She's ready for action.

Beautiful. I love Playboy. I love the way they make the women look. I love the

funny articles because guys really believe that stuff.

Okay, okay, okay.

Nice, nice, nice.

That's okay.

That's okay. You're free. I didn't expect this to be so good. You're free

to move.

I have a lot of respect for the women who do choose to do Playboy because it

kind of shows a higher standard for yourself if you're interested in showing

yourself new to the world.

Cool. Nice.

She loves doing this.

I have become a woman who's very secure with herself.

I spend a lot of time always wondering about what people think about me. And

I'm finally starting to realize as I get older that it really doesn't matter.

Wow.

You're making my toes curl.

So now I'm starting to become very secure with myself, and I'm happy with

that because it makes me want to do more instead of being scared to jump out and

try new things.

That's even better.

Great. Let's do that again.

Taria is used to overcoming challenges.

In her life, she's had more than her share of them.

I think Taria is super one because she has endured quite a bit of physical pain

in her life.

As a kid, they told me I had a vascular necrosis and what it is is a

deterioration of bones in your body. I spent a lot of time in my early 20s

walking with crutches and using a cane.

Any long walking I had to do, I had to use a wheelchair.

How'd the photo shoot go?

Oh, the photo shoot went really well.

The most fun that I can have is a beautiful day outdoors.

Well, you can probably use a good bike ride, right?

Considering I haven't eaten.

Sometimes we just like to ride through really nice neighborhoods and look at

the houses. We call them our inspirational rides.

And sometimes we go out there and really sweat and pump it and ride, you know,

really hard.

You ready to eat? Yeah.

And I'd have to say another passion of mine is eating.

I'm from the south. I'm a southern girl. My roots are in Louisiana. So any Cajun

Creole food I can get my hands on, if I can get some crawfish.

What's the saying?

Peel it, eat it, suck it.

Suck the juice off the head.

I am very excited about the opportunity the world is going to have to see this

gorgeous woman here.

That's beautiful.

You know, I think she is the bomb.

Good.

Wow, that's really strong.

Playboy is the biggest of the big, and, you know, you jump right out there and

go on to the Super Bowl, you know?

Once the women are comfortable being naked on set, the real work begins.

You know, it gets on my nerves when the photographer's not ready.

Gien Nishino is a freelance photographer from New York who's been given the

enviable assignment of bringing the women of Enron to the pages of Playboy.

That's it, yeah, switch that hair.

That's so good.

All these girls, you know, they have something in common.

They're all confident, they're all totally excited, of course.

They're all different in their individual way.

Very happy, she's very happy.

And there's so many forms and levels and angles of sensuality. It's amazing to

see. Bring your head up. Yeah.

Good. That's one.

It's a sense of vulnerability.

They're fresh.

And there's a lot of appreciation there as well. Once they see the picture, they

go. Wow, that's mean.

Do I get to at least take one Polaroid home?

Probably not.

Oh, darn it.

As soon as they would look at the Polaroids, I was like, let me see.

That's the best part is actually seeing the product that everyone else is going

to see. You know, that's what they're going to see. I want to see that now,

too. I want to see how it looks.

The pictures are beautiful, and I'm a very lucky girl. It's the coolest day. I

feel like a princess.

Why did I want to do this?

That's a very good question. It happened so quickly, I really didn't have time to

think. But the only thing I could say to all my friends, who wouldn't want to do

this? What woman would not want to grace the covers of one of the most famous

magazines in the world?

Good, that's good. I like that level of look.

That's beautiful.

You're not pushing so hard, you're just being really sexy with your eyes only.

You know, not to mention, it helps out financially.

And also, who knows what this is going to lead to. I mean, there's a lot of

problems with it. And, you know, you never know. Maybe this, you know, will

snowball into me revamping my career. I'm not exactly sure.

I'm just kind of taking it day by day right now.

That's great. Yeah.

Breathe in.

That's it.

What we wanted to replicate is a corporate feeling that's a bit

masculine. She looked really powerful.

Sexy. Very sexy. And it worked.

Beautiful. Stay like that. Yeah, just work your face.

I had so much fun. And the role that they had me play was pretty much my

personality, which was perfect. The chair should go this way.

Carrie has amazing legs.

So we're going to have Carrie sitting in a chair with her gorgeous legs up on the

table, having a meeting with her boss.

And she's probably going to have her skirt down and her shirt open.

I kept her wardrobe simple.

Yeah, there you go.

Beautiful. It was absolutely beautiful.

I was not nervous at all. I thought I was going to be petrified.

And then, you know, before I knew it, I'm like walking around like totally

naked. It was very funny.

She lost her skirt.

Carrie, for me, is the mayor of New York.

Basically, wherever we walk, people come up, Hi, Carrie! Hey, Carrie!

Give me a hug, Carrie!

Tell you the truth, I look at Carrie as the real sex in the city. I mean, this

girl is the down-to-earth real deal.

There's no city in the world that has an energy like it does here. There's no

other place that you can do anything you possibly want. You can eat, you can

dance, you can shop at any hour of the day.

I love to play market shop and antique, and I love to go to the opera.

There's so many things to do. It's a cliche, but it's a city that never

sleeps, and it's my home now. You can make it here. You can make it anywhere,

baby.

I would not be the word for Carrie. Carrie is very outgoing and fun-loving.

She loves having people around her. She loves entertaining.

She loves cooking up a storm. She'll want to have, like, ten people over and

just cook for everybody and cook enough for days, you know?

Carrie's unique. She's got a warmth about her that just radiates people.

She's natural.

She's down to earth.

She's a leader, not a follower.

So I'm flying to Houston this weekend to do my pictorial for Playboy. As an

employee of Enron, she was on top of the world. I mean, she had a great job,

prestige, and then to have it ripped away the way it was, she made a positive

out of a negative, and that's her character.

And if it doesn't work out for you, you always have those magic tricks you know

how to do.

I am a very, very lucky girl to be surrounded by some really great people

and get an opportunity for a second chance because I've had a couple of

tough breaks. But when you're good to yourself and others, it sounds corny,

but it comes back. It's a perfect example.

So I'm going to put this here.

I have stockings that go with this, but I'm going to wait.

Oh, that's beautiful.

Yeah.

Believe it or not, one of the most important aspects of any Playboy shoot

is wardrobe.

Wardrobe. The point of having clothing in a nude photo shoot is to accentuate

the positive things about a person's body.

Make the photograph more colorful, make it more exciting.

Notice this is a sub-69 jumpsuit.

And I think men like that. I think men look at the magazine and wish they could

just like move that thing over just a little bit. So the clothing is more like

a tease.

So now we're going to dress into like the corporate world of Playboy. Okay.

In Vanessa's case, the wardrobe also helped to reinforce the pictorial's

underlying theme. I'm sure if you wanted a raise, you'd probably wear this bra.

Vanessa reminded me of the...

Perfect corporate girl. She looks very natural. And I wanted to put her in a

corporate environment, definitely.

But I wanted to have her something where she just looks so sexy when she opened

up that jacket of hers.

Okay, now put this over the whole deal.

So I wanted to put the whole garter belt look underneath because I think guys

fantasize about garter belts a lot and what's underneath that corporate woman's

skirt. They'll never know what's underneath.

Or maybe they will.

I think the corporate image was perfect for me, just because I always think of

myself as trying to work my way up in the corporate world.

Let's go do some following.

Let's do it.

Oh, wow.

Cheer up.

Vanessa, she's really innocent looking.

She's like the perfect, beautiful girl that you want to see in a corporate

office. The kind that you can have a fantasy about.

I love this underneath stuff. Who's going to say that?

You got to buy it for me.

Can't argue with that.

Yeah. Good.

Beautiful. Doing what we did today, I guess, was kind of, in a way, building

your self-confidence to do something a little different.

Yeah.

I don't normally think of myself as being sexy, maybe cute or pretty, but

not sexy. So I think today will help me maybe dress a little different or think

of myself a little different.

Good. Eyes away.

Kind of makes you feel good about yourself, too. So it's kind of fun to do

something a little daring, a little something on the edge, and just kind of

have fun with it.

Good. Oh, that's perfect.

Very strong.

I have yet to tell my family about it. My parents are extremely conservative. I

think my sisters would probably just say, that's cool, whatever you want to

do. But I'm not really sure how my parents would take it, so I haven't

wrote that yet.

Fantastic.

I'm studying right now to go back to grad school, take my GMAT, and go get my

MBA and kind of stay on that career path for a few more years before I'm ready to

start a family.

I would say I'm a pretty adventurous person because I like to, even though I

am kind of straight-laced and conservative, every once in a while I

like to do something a little crazy.

My naughtiest memory would probably be having sex on the patio in the backyard.

She's an angel from God.

The man in my life is my husband, Greg Schulte.

Vanessa is probably one of the most incredible women I've ever met.

From the first time I saw her, I fell in love with her.

And she's just been great ever since. Every day seems to get better and

better.

She's definitely a Girl Scout.

Somebody that's never even smoked a cigarette in her entire life. So she's

definitely a godsend.

Working just like that. That's perfect.

I'm going to support her 100% and looking forward to seeing the magazine.

Great. Good, good, good. That's it. Beautiful.

Like wardrobe, location also plays a huge role in developing the mood of a

Playboy pictorial.

Chris Young is the production set stylist.

It's really essential that in a shoot like this... You don't just create a

nude figure in a room. You create an entire fantasy, a visual fantasy.

But the most important thing is that the viewer is incorporated into that

fantasy. And I think in this job it's been really fun to get to know each

model and to see what might be appropriate for their personalities and

not just think of them as a model.

We chose to work in a hangar because that woman is a pilot.

And so we wanted to show the personality behind the model, not just that she was

beautiful, but also she's a pilot.

Janine is a commercial airline pilot. That's why we've got this cute little

plane for her to bop around as a prop.

Look down again.

Take your time.

I love aviation.

I love to fly.

It gives me a sense of freedom.

I can go anywhere, and it's a rush when you land.

Different weather situations, different airports, meet different people.

Yeah, there you go.

Wow, beautiful.

Good. It's awesome. I'm having a great time. It's nice and cool.

I have this awesome outfit.

It is just spectacular.

Oh, that's good. That's cool.

That's right.

What are you going to do with me?

Just get more naked, I guess. Are they down enough?

Yeah, looks good. Because they always look better down.

Yeah, always.

Janine seems to be oblivious to all of us around here, and there are a lot of

people around here today.

But I think she's just having a great time, and she's the star today, and

she's working with our photographer, and it doesn't matter to her. Good, good,

good, yeah.

Take your time.

Good.

I could have allowed myself to feel vulnerable.

However, I just pictured everyone else in the room in their underwear.

So I was fine with that.

The pictures are awesome. Yeah, but you're awesome.

Thank you, Beth. Very easy. That's right.

It's a really easy situation to shoot her from all different angles.

Good. I mean, it was just incredible. Her tonality. She works out. She's

totally fit.

She's confident. Beautiful eyes.

She was so sexy.

Really, really terrific.

All right, lift your eyes to me first. There you go.

Woo!

Bullseye. Shooting my .357 gives me an absolute adrenaline rush.

Bullseye. Mother bullseye.

Every waking moment I am a very adventurous person.

My adventures are flying, sailing, scuba diving, driving fast cars.

One of Janine's favorite expressions is, I feel the need for speed. She loves

going fast in fast cars, she loves going fast in boats, she loves going fast in

motorcycles.

She can enter a room and be friends with everybody within five minutes.

She's got an incredible personality.

She's among the most gorgeous women I've ever met as well.

She deserves to be in Playboy. The collapse of Enron has its silver lining,

and that is the fact that Janine is going to get to go in Playboy, one of

her life's ambitions.

I love the way that thing is blowing in the breeze.

Posing for Playboy was exactly what I expected.

Absolutely fabulous day.

The best part of the day was...

When I was able to actually see what we were creating and how beautiful the

aircraft and the flight suit went together, it was perfect. I couldn't

have asked for a better day.

Oh, beautiful.

Nice, right?

Very nice. Okay, beautiful. You did a great job.

Nice, right?

Hey, hey.

That's nice. Good.

Cool. Nice. Good smile.

Just when everything seemed to be going great, the media showed up.

Houston, we have a problem.

Well, we were hoping to get pictures of the girls and a little bit of a shoot,

you know, without interfering with you all, but obviously that's not the case

today. The news was out there, and I didn't want to be on the news, so...

Right, we're trying to be private, and then we came here. We surprised three

different news crews here.

It's all been nervousness. Because it leaked out, and so we had to sneak

around from the back way, and we're still trying to hide from paparazzi and

news crews.

Well, this is, I guess, another aspect or another angle to the Enron story. It

has affected so many people across the country. And this is probably an aspect

of Enron we've never seen before, the women of Enron. And I think many people

will be interested in that.

Jim, what was Playboy's interest in, I guess, unveiling the women of Enron?

Well, Enron, I think, is certainly in the American culture now. It's an

ongoing story, and Playboy being innovative, we like to tap into the

American culture as regularly as we can in the context of Playboy magazine.

Mom, please forgive me.

I'm feeling a little embarrassed, a little nervous, and a little like a

movie star, a naked movie star.

Actually, this is the first time we've been bombarded by the news, and we were

expecting it, although it set us back an hour, simply because we couldn't even

get in. So many cars parked all over the place.

My ex hasn't been a freak, I'm sure.

Posing for a Playboy pictorial is not as easy as it looks.

seasoned professionals find it uncomfortable at best.

Can you throw your right foot over the edge here, this way? Yeah.

For amateurs, it can be downright unpleasant.

Modeling is the hardest job there is, besides construction or something.

Okay, throw your booty back.

I was a little embarrassed taking my clothes off.

It felt kind of vulnerable, and it felt like being naked in front of a bunch of

strangers.

Functional slide.

The posing is like doing squats for five hours.

That's how hard it is.

I mean, because you're stuck in your back, stick your butt out, do this, do

that, and then now we've got to get the right facial expression, and I just

don't know if it's coming. I don't know what to do. He's upset with me.

As you can tell, he's rubbing my feet.

She tried real hard, really, really hard. It was difficult for her only

because she tried so hard and she really wants it. That often happens.

Only friendly eyes.

Friendly, sexy eyes. One more time.

Good.

All right. We found a really, really strong angle on her. And we got the body

locked in really good. So all we need is that love in the eyes and the perfect

breath. Very happy. She's very happy.

Okay. I knew that it was going to be a little weird at first, but I didn't know

I was going to be getting a foot massage, and I didn't know the news crew

was going to be here. But other than that, it was pretty much what I

expected.

That's it. Good, good, good, good.

Okay. At first, I was hesitant because I have a son, and I wanted to hurt him.

He's real protective of me. But I think once he does find out that I think he'll

understand that, well, I did it for the money.

Are you going to get a lot of money? A lot more than Enron owes me, that's for

sure. Oh, my God. Are you going to be completely naked?

Yeah, but it's going to be tasteful. I guess I better get over the shyness

right about now.

I'm most nervous about being naked in front of a bunch of people I barely

know. I know what my nipples are.

They look better. A little bit hard in here.

Everything's hard in here.

Isn't this fun and easy to do?

There you go.

Nice.

Lori's wild.

Lori's a wild chick, and ever since I've met her, she's been that way.

We'd come home from clubbing or whatever, and we'd get into the house,

and all of a sudden, her and her friends are all over the house karaoke-ing.

My naughtiest memory would probably be when I was in Cancun, and I was with my

boyfriend, and we took this girl home with us. It was pretty naughty.

If she was a lesbian, she'd be having fun. I'm not. Definitely not. I'm a

lesbian.

Nice. Nice, nice, nice.

Well, her parents are going to kill her. I guess her fiancé is on board with

everything, but still, you never know. My parents don't know.

Actually, I told my stepdad. He's not real conservative.

He was in shock for a second, and then my mom is so worried about what

everybody thinks, so she'll be pretty upset.

She'll have to get out.

I feel great. It's definitely bragging rights. On the other hand, I'm sure I'll

have a future of all my friends saying, hey, guess who I was with last night.

So, you know, I'm sure bubbles ahead.

But that's good.

It's jealousy.

Yeah, up there. That's your leg.

That's it. Okay, good.

Everyone who's ever worked on a Playboy shoot agrees on two things.

It's a lot of fun. That was fantastic.

And the best job on the set is the motion guy.

Yaren's has got the best job, and I'm working my way to get it.

He's able to moisturize her body from head to toe, and I can only shoot her,

so that's not right.

One man's job is another man's fantasy.

Oh, yeah, there's a bunch of people right now who would like to be the

lotion guy.

I should get an assistant that does the neck down, you know what I mean?

I want to be that.

No, no, no, no. This girl's mine. I want to change my job.

You've got to stay away.

That's definitely one of the perks of my business, being able to lotion the girls

down, but you have to be careful on how you touch them.

I did study massage for a while, so I know how to touch someone's body without

them being uncomfortable or reading into it the wrong way. And

even doing makeup touch-ups, whether it be around

the nipple area or around the private area.

There's a way that you approach them. There's a way that you touch them. You

have to be almost like a doctor.

I'm trying to see if I can see it.

He enjoyed that.

That was enjoyable for him.

Yeah, that looks nice.

That's beautiful.

Good.

My earliest memory of Playboy magazine would be, I think, back in high school.

I was thinking to myself, gosh, do they really look that perfect? Can anybody be

that perfect?

That's it. Perfect.

That's beautiful.

Good.

Nice.

Elongate your leg.

I am definitely not a professional model. This is my first time.

And, you know, it's hard, and I thought, to be honest with you, I know it sounds

silly, but smiling and looking all natural, it's not all that easy.

The worst part is I didn't get much sleep last night, and I think it's

catching up to me, and I'm dead tired, but I hope I don't look it or try not to

look it. But that's the worst part. That's my fault. I just couldn't sleep

last night. Can you roll your hips a little bit more this way?

That's nice.

There was a funny thing that happened in the beginning when she took this

position on top of that little chair.

And it was closer to 1 o'clock in the afternoon, and I was getting hungry.

So the way she was laying there on top reminded me of sushi.

So as soon as I said that, she loves sushi. So we connected right away. And

then soon our makeup artist came over, and Garrett, he put all kinds of wasabi

moisturizer over her. That was perfect.

We just got deeper and deeper into it, and then soon she turned out to be a

beautiful sashimi laying over this chair.

That's it. Good.

Good. It was great. We laughed a lot.

Sashimi. Okay. Here comes the waitress. All right.

I was born in Indonesia.

I've been here since I was 11. My favorite thing is to spend time with my

daughter and my family.

I'm more of a homebody and a mother type.

Being a mom to a four-year-old is great. I love it. I love being a mom.

Ready?

Maya's awesome with Taylor.

Together, they're pretty much as one. I mean, they're just a unit.

Hey, sweetie, hang on.

They go everywhere together. They play together.

She plays with her, and it's her girlfriend.

Oh, I'm dizzy. Oh, my husband is wonderful.

He just completes me.

Get the water.

He's outgoing.

He's very open-minded, and he supports me in this and just anything I do.

Cheeseburgers. I said go for it, 100%. I'm behind you, and I'm sure the family

will be behind you.

Okie dokie, boogie.

A lot of people, and parents especially, think it's terrible for their kids to

model or be in that type of magazine.

I don't think it's terrible at all. I think if you're blessed with that

beauty, you can share it. Not everybody gets chosen, so I was really proud of

her.

One of the main reasons Playboy came to Houston in the first place was the Enron

building itself.

There was no way they were going to leave without using it in the pictorial.

That's it.

Good.

Wonderful. We are in downtown Houston.

Right behind us are the Enron buildings, the Enron towers they're called

sometimes, and our rooftop garage, and we are the only ones up here. It is

great. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Being here is overwhelmingly exhilarating, and it's kind of

yummy to think someone could be watching.

As long as you're moving, no problem.

I'll just pick the shot.

That's so good.

So good.

Beautiful. Oh, boy, oh, boy.

That's it.

That's great.

That's it.

That's beautiful.

This is probably my ultimate dream come true. Right here in front of the Enron.

Thank you for playing with me.

Sherry is one of the few women in the pictorial who still works for the

company.

No one at Enron knows what I'm doing.

I didn't want to say anything because a lot of people at Enron are conservative,

and I didn't want to hear it. This is my experience. This is my time, and I

didn't want anyone's negative energy to float into my positive energy.

The only person that knows is my hairdresser.

Oh, that's good. That's beautiful.

She's a great Playboy model.

She's fun. She's excited. She has great nervous energy. And she's just loving

it.

Until today, I've never been naked in front of a group of people.

And I came out here, and I think there's like 10 people here.

But I didn't feel like I was naked. I felt very comfortable and very at ease.

And I love it. It doesn't bother me one bit.

How's the water temperature?

The water temperature is nice.

Don't look so fishy.

I am an Aquarian, free spirit, very open.

I have three tattoos.

I have one on my ankle, and it's the Chinese symbol for live the day.

And that is a huge aspect of my decision-making.

Just walking around.

I want to capture each moment. I want to make sure that I live in the moment.

Crips! Where? Right here.

Never feel stagnant or dead.

Finally.

Living in Houston is nice.

There's a lot of opportunities to make money, have a good time.

They have a lot of festivals, they have a lot of theater, a lot of eclectic

parts of town that you can find unique things that you can't find anywhere

else. When I first met Sherry, I think one of the things that drew

me to her was that she was very free-spirited.

She was very comfortable with herself as an individual.

She was very open-minded.

I have no doubt that people will be able to see Her sexiness, the way I see it.

How was it? It was fun. You had fun?

I had an awesome time. Yeah? Yeah. I hope that posing for Playboy changed my

future. Nice. I have little dreams here and there, daydreams.

I hope it'll take me somewhere and I get to do some fun things. I had such a good

time.

So here we are, day seven, eight, or nine, I forget.

We've gathered up five of our women of Enron. We're in front of the Enron

headquarters, taking a little quick picture for our layout. 8.30 Sunday

morning is a tough call, but we're all here doing it.

Each girl has been completely different.

Each girl has been special, and I have seen qualities in each girl that I

really like.

For Shari, I loved her sexual confidence. I mean, this girl was proud

of her body, and she reminded me of like a millennium flower child.

Talia. Probably one of the nicest, most genuine, big-hearted people I've ever

met.

Vanessa. When Vanessa walked into the room, no hair and makeup done, I thought

she was beautiful.

This girl is like the true girl next door.

Janine, when we did the airplane shot.

This woman kicked ass.

She was totally sexually confident. The same kind of confidence, but in a

different way than Shari.

So each girl has had something really unique and very, very special.

That was a wrap.

By the time the shoot was over, Guillen had taken over 5,000 photographs.

It's Jim Larson's job to carefully review each and every one of them. It's

part of my job to physically look at every picture that we've taken.

This might surprise some people, but I always look at the face first.

And then I travel down the body and make sure that everything is falling into

place and it's the most flattering to the girl.

What I do then is edit down this enormous amount of film to a small group

of pictures that I can then present to the head of our photo department for his

blessing.

And then it goes into a layout process and all the different aspects of this

come together.

And then it continues on down to a number of other desks to approve and

eventually to Mr. Hefner to see.

I mean, it's kind of Superman look. That's the concept, you know,

superwoman, corporate environment.

Embracing the amateur spirit of the pictorial, Playboy decided to put an

Enron girl on the magazine's cover.

The lucky lady was Christine.

Well, it was really exciting when they asked me to come to L.A. and shoot the

cover. They called me on a Wednesday and said, can you be in L.A. on Thursday to

shoot the cover on Friday? And do you want to see the mansion?

And I was like, yeah, of course I want to. It was a fantastic experience.

I really didn't have time to think about it and what that might mean for me in

the long run in terms of people knowing who I was. Because even if you don't buy

a Playboy, you...

If you're at the magazine store, you'll see who's on the cover. And it wasn't

until after I shot it and after I came home from staying at the mansion did I

kind of let it sink in that I actually am going to be on the cover of Playboy.

Since posing for Playboy's cameras, the women of Enron have had some time to

look back on their experience.

The adventure with Playboy has just been astonishing.

Everybody has just been so cordial, so friendly.

It's like being around, you know, people that I've known for a long time.

This is 15 minutes of fame for me right now, you know. So losing my job, I lost

confidence, you know. It would definitely help, you know, toughen up my

height a little bit and get me back out there.

As their lives finally return to normal, many of the women have used their new

sense of empowerment to put Enron in the past.

My future aspirations right now is to finish my second bachelor's degree and

then move on to the master's program in nursing and become a midwife.

I really want to be able to say that today I helped a woman bring her baby

into the world.

I want to save animals. I can't walk by a stray animal without trying to save

it. I really like art and I love painting, so I think it would be nice to

own an art gallery.

Finishing my degree has always been a big deal for me.

It'd be nice to have some money in the bank and be able to go to school full

time. I think maybe it'll open up doors for modeling. I'm not sure, but I feel

like I've accomplished something big doing this for Playboy. I wish I could

see everyone's face when they open the magazine and see my photo in there. It's

really exciting to think that people are looking at it all over.

She looks incredibly hot. Wow, she's really pretty and she's really sexy.

overwhelming, exciting, erotic feeling.

I think when Playboy publishes our Women of Enron story, it will be front page

news. And I think people will be intrigued to get perhaps past the

business page and actually see some real faces who were part of Enron, and

I think that's what's going to make it successful.

I think that's it, guys.

That was fantastic.

This is one thing that's coming out of Enron that's not going to be shredded.