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Welcome to the world of Playboy. P-L-A-Y-B-O-Y It's time to flip through

more than 50 years of Playboy magazine.

Alongside a group of the most beautiful and most celebrated women to have ever

graced its pages.

These are the movie stars and the pin-up girls.

The fashion models in the Baywatch Bay.

The TV heroines and even the Olympic athletes.

I thought this is the perfect time for me to be a little bit more provocative.

They struck a pose and won gold on their way to making themselves a household

name.

Never would have done it at that time.

Never in a million years did I think I would ever do it. I was completely out

of spite when I did Playboy. My boyfriend cheated on me and he was like,

Playboy.

I'm like, I want him in my photo shoot.

And they're like, we can't do that.

I'm like, do it.

I'm not going to make it.

I didn't know that I could look that good.

Mom and Dad didn't know that I could look that naked.

And we'll check in with the most envied man in America.

I'm a guy who dreamed impossible dreams and recognized that I am the luckiest

cat on the planet.

So get ready, because Playboy's pictures are about to come

to life.

like you've never seen before.

These are Playboy's Celebrity Centerfold.

We're going to have a good time tonight.

Just how well-known has Playboy become?

In its 50-plus years of existence, this entertainment magazine for men has

entertained the subscribers of more than 19 countries.

It's turned out more than 1,000 issues, featured more than 3,000 women, and

showcased more than 1 million photographs.

But when you add it all up, the numbers boil down to one universal fact.

Men only read Playboy for the articles.

I'd like to meet a guy that actually says he reads it for the articles.

I don't know one guy.

I read Playboy for the articles.

Unbelievable. It's a good excuse. It's one of those good one-liners.

No, I think that they pick it up for both the articles and the pictures.

No.

They want to see naked women in tits and they want to whack off.

That would be naughty now, wouldn't it?

I think women pick up Playboy for the articles. Men probably never get to the

article.

I would imagine a certain type of man, you know, reads the articles eventually.

This is new to me.

I think women enjoy looking at the pictures just as much as guys do.

Well, I've heard the rumor that some readers only read the magazine for the

article.

There is some suspicion that it is a combination of the good fiction and

articles and those pictures and the Playmates of the Month and the Celebrity

Pictorial that have defined both the magazine and also my life.

A great deal of work goes into capturing the photos that have made Playboy

famous.

And while the decision to strike a pose may be different for each woman, the

process is very much the same.

Meet Adrienne Curry, winner of the reality show America's Next Top Model

and Playboy's newest celebrity centerfold.

Today, Adrienne visits Playboy Studio West to pose for the cover of the

February 2006 issue.

It's still way too early for that.

Good morning.

I'm so tired.

I'm going to. I see you're setting up.

Fix me.

Okay. So we're going for Smokey Smokey, right?

I think Smokey with some silver would be good.

Okay. Like silver right here on the inside like a kitty.

I am an avid Playboy reader.

I read Playboy all the time. I have a subscription online, so I get to look at

all the archives.

I justified my posing just by looking back at all the supermodels who have

done it, like women who I absolutely adore, like Cindy Crawford, Angie

Everhart, Jamie Presley. So I didn't really feel bad.

I figured one of these days, someone's going to get pictures of me somewhere on

some beach naked, so I might as well get paid for it before that happens.

I've never seen any pictures like that.

They're very racy yet artistic all at the same time. It's going to be pretty

cool. I'm nervous.

Are you? Why?

I wasn't nervous about my pictorial. You know, that's fine, but this is a cover.

I don't want to be nervous when I go up there.

Woo!

More of Adrienne Curry on the set of her Playboy photo shoot to come.

Now. Let's catch up with the most musical group of celebrity centerfolds

to take that no-look-back leap of faith into the pages of Playboy magazine.

Some readers failed to recognize the name Deborah Gibson when she posed for

Playboy in March 2005.

But nobody had forgotten the face.

After all, Debbie Gibson was one of the most electrifying pop stars of the

1980s.

Playboy came to me at a very young age because wouldn't that have been

fascinating?

God, I wasn't even wearing high-heeled shoes. I was barely dating. I was a big

prude. Never would have done it at that time.

Never in a million years did I think I would ever do it.

My very first dream as a kid was to be a Broadway star.

If you would have asked me at five years old, what do you want to be when you

grow up, it was like, I want to be Liza Minnelli.

As we all know, Debbie's childhood had her dancing to a slightly different

tune. No, no, no, no, only in my dreams.

And by the age of 17, Debbie Gibson had become a pop star.

One day I'm walking down the hall in school and I'm Deb, and the next day I'm

Debbie Gibson.

Debbie leapt onto the music scene with 1987's Only in My Dreams.

She topped the charts with Foolish Beat, making her the youngest artist to write,

produce, and perform a number one hit. And then, in the spring of 1989, Debbie

returned to the top of the charts with her 80s anthem, Electric Youth.

As the rain atop the music charts gave way to the

90s emerging Seattle sound, a 21-year-old Debbie Gibson was in need of

a change.

She welcomed the opportunity to play Eponine in the play Le Miserable, even

if the Broadway cast wasn't quick to welcome her.

Oh, who does this pop star think she is coming into our show?

So there was no pop princess makeup and hair happening. It was a tomboy role, a

real grounded street urchin type thing.

It was a really cool thing, because I remember the director running up and

down the aisles going, I turned Effin' Debbie Gibson into Effinine! It was not

how people thought they were going to come to the theater and see me.

I've gotten to play some of the best roles you will ever get to play in your

20s or 30s. I've played both Sandy and Rizzo in Grease, not at the same time.

And last but not least, Sally Bowles in Cabaret, which was probably my favorite.

Playing Sally Bowles was different for me because it was such a sexually

aggressive character.

Discovering the sexuality of Sally Bowles helped open up Debra's own

sexuality and suddenly put a long-time offer from Playboy into a whole new

light.

Finally, when I was 34 years old, I was like, hmm, I'm not instantly saying no

to this. Why?

I'm glad I'm in touch with my own growth as a human being enough to know that

Things change.

Your opinions change.

It just didn't seem like a big deal to me anymore, and it felt great. It felt

like breaking my own rules in a way.

That's kind of a cool thing to do when you get into your 30s and you truly

don't care what anyone thinks anymore.

It's very freeing.

In the winter of 2004, Deborah Gibson posed for her March 2005 Playboy

pictorial, perhaps the most freeing experience of her life.

We did the shoot at a club here in L.A.

the Argyle Hotel, which is a very, like, 1920s retro old-school Hollywood place.

The first moment walking out of the set is very scary, but I got over it pretty

quickly because I was like, okay, I don't want to waste a shot. Let's go.

I had a lot of music playing during the shoot to really, like, I had music

playing during the shoot that was specific to every character I wanted to

portray.

So in that cabaret wig, I had, like, the burlesque thing going.

In the Marilyn-esque shots, I had Frank Sinatra flying me to the moon. I was,

like, transported to another time and place.

And even if there's a hint of that in the photo, I'm happy.

My favorite were the shots that had atmosphere, that I felt like I was on a

film set or on a theater stage playing a character.

And that's what I thrived on in the shoot.

Part of what I wanted to do was show a real woman's body because I don't weigh

110 pounds.

And everything on me is real. So I wanted to show all that. So I was kind

of like, does everything look real? I'm cool with it.

I felt like my picture showed my desire to truly do this and own it.

And I would love to have some huge blowups of them.

in my home, because you know what? You only got a 34-year-old body once in your

life, baby.

From the music video star to the stars of music videos, one of the hottest

young actresses and most recent celebrity centerfolds is the star in

Aerosmith's Girls of Summer.

Jamie Lynn Presley modeled throughout Japan and Italy before returning home to

land cover shots on Teen Magazine and Stuff.

But in March of 1998, at the age of 20, Jamie posed for Playboy and proved her

teenage years were long behind her.

Oh, my God.

Think it was Daddy?

From there, Jamie graduated onto the lead role in Poison Ivy, The New

Seduction, after serving as Drew Barrymore's body double in the original.

I promised you we'd be home again.

Then, in February of 2004, Jamie sat down with Playboy one more time.

See, we have a little unfinished business.

Another video vixen who has recently dabbled in the pages of Playboy is the

stunning model in the Fountains of Wayne hit video, Stacey's Mom.

Playboy first invited Rachel Hunter to pose nude at the age of 18, well before

her nine-year marriage to Rod Stewart, and her illustrious career as one of the

80s top swimsuit models.

Rachel didn't feel the time was right and decided to turn Playboy's offer

down.

Almost 20 years later, the 5'11 Auckland-born beauty finally made her

move. She marked her debut with a cover and a nude pictorial in April of 2004.

It was a Playboy music edition.

Rachel's Playboy appearances have helped spark a new career.

She's since taken on the part of a New Age Mrs. Robinson and two-stepped her

way to newfound prominence on Dancing with the Stars.

You're smiling. How do you feel about that score?

That's great. It's awesome. I'm looking forward to, as everyone else has said,

the other dances and stuff.

I think after puking all night, you were awesome, Richard. Yeah, that was hard

work.

Welcome to the world of fashion, where there's more to a pretty face than meets

the eye.

Beautiful. A place where ice-cold looks collide with sexy smiles.

And less is undoubtedly more.

Over the past 50 years, Playboy magazine has showcased some of the modeling

world's biggest names.

And along the way, timely Playboy appearances have helped launch a few

women into a stardom of their own.

Like in 1981, when the magazine introduced the world to a lesser-known

fashion model from Canada named Shannon Tweed.

I was born on a mink ranch in Newfoundland, Canada. My father raised

mink, obviously, and my mother was a former nurse, homemaker, mother of seven

of us, towheads running around.

I myself moved to Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal. I met the photographer for a

playboy who was scouting in town.

I loved modeling at the time. I was sort of stagnating there, not being top model

material, and I asked my agent if he could.

Kept me in meeting.

Shannon wanted to pose for Playboy, so it instantly became her agent's job to

make that dream a reality.

There was a show shooting in Toronto called Thrill of a Lifetime where people

would have a chance to live out their dreams or whatever they always wanted to

do. And then my agent sort of put the two ideas together.

And we tested for Playboy. We saw some pictures.

I was rejected three times.

Not good for the show, but eventually I made it in, and it was thrilling. It was

a thrill of a lifetime.

Within weeks, this once-upon-a-time print model found herself in the all-too

-familiar position of voguing for the cameras.

The only difference this time around?

Shannon was striking her pose naked.

My first set of pictures was so doofus-like.

Just farm themed and like me in a cowboy hat and I'll pick up Chuck. I'm

thinking, what?

Pick up Chuck?

Whose truck is it?

And there's this sort of virginal look to it. I mean, if you'd known where I'd

been up till then, you would never have put me in that setting.

I'd have been into Martello.

I'm wearing a little pink checkered see-through ruffled dress.

And I've been modeling up to now, but I never had anybody draw my lips up my

nose before.

It looked like poop.

Do I wipe it off all the time?

Get it?

By the time the November issue hit the stands in the fall of 1981, a wave of

excitement swept across America.

And the effects were felt back home in Canada, too.

Big bang.

Exciting.

Exciting for my mom.

She was horrified, horrified, you know, until people started saying nice things.

The response was good, and people liked it or accepted it. And she was, yeah,

okay.

Getting used to Shannon in the pages of Playboy was a good thing, because in

1982, Playboy featured Shannon three more times. Not only did June mark the

first of her five Playboy covers, Shannon went on to be named 1982's

Playmate of the Year.

I would like to introduce a very, very special lady.

I was very happy. When I look at it now, I look like I'm about 12.

I was an old playmate. I was 24.

That was huge.

You know, surprising those boobs weren't down on the floor.

Did I say that?

But I'll tell you, you never know where that camera is. Pretty sure, yeah, you

can't see anything from there. I'm like, wrong, wrong.

It was so wrong.

So that was kind of interesting.

Shannon's Playboy pictorials helped to launch an acting career that since made

her a fixture in the public and private eye.

You son of a bitch.

Come on, Kara, let him up now.

I suppose I don't want to.

Her history of work includes parts on mid-'80s hits like Days of Our Lives and

Falcon Crest, as well as a leading role in HBO's jock-centric comedy First

Intent.

Shannon's also made a name for herself in countless B-movies.

You've had enough fun for one day, don't you think?

No stranger to the limelight, Shannon has co-starred in two very high-profile

relationships, one with Playboy's head honcho himself and another with Kiss's

long-cunged rock and roll legend, Gene Simmons.

All in all, Shannon can be held accountable for six Playboy appearances.

In 1991, she posed alongside her younger sister Tracy.

And most recently, in 1998, she took the photos she'll never forget.

The last ones. The last ones I did were the nicest.

It was very amazing.

Hot looking pictures.

I was 40.

They were the best. My body looked the best. Hair was great.

Everything was great.

I loved that.

And people everywhere continue to love Shannon.

The mink farmer's daughter whose thrill of a lifetime has been a dream come true

for Playboy's faithful.

Maybe we should cut the money and split up right here.

Twenty years before Kim Basinger catapulted to the top of Hollywood's A

-list, she too was a print model looking for a way to reinvent her image. As it

turned out, Playboy would help provide the answer.

In February of 1983, Kim posed nude for an eight-page Playboy pictorial. Her

long blonde hair and piercing blue eyes found their way from the backcountry to

the beach.

with the spellbinding photos of Kim frolicking in the water opened eyes all

across the globe, including those in Hollywood.

With the turn of a page, Tinseltown had found its next sexy starlet.

On March 23, 1998, this Georgia native won Best Supporting Actress for L.A.

Confidential, proving to Hollywood she was here to stay.

In July of 1988, Playboy magazine offered a new approach to showcasing

models by revealing its first-ever pictorials of an already bona fide

modern-day supermodel.

The summer of 1988 would belong to Cindy Crawford, and ten years later, so too

would the fall.

In October of 1998, the modeling megastar from DeKalb, Illinois posed for

Playboy once again, this time appearing in only her mole.

Two years later, and just up the road in Chicago, Playboy magazine decided to

make a few changes.

As a result, the Gold Coast Mansion was closed and sold.

Its notorious, if you don't swing, don't ring, welcome sign was covered up. And

the office's oversized 9-foot letters that once towered over the Chicago

skyline were removed for good.

But in 1991, a 5-foot-11 bombshell from Texas made certain that Playboy still

had a place for oversized things.

She's the eccentric celebrity talent that always entertains. From a high

-profile marriage to a self-titled show, she's the widowed wonder, who at times

has given a whole new meaning to the words full-figured model.

I never thought I'd ask this.

What's on it?

In the beginning, Anna Nicole Smith was a small-town girl in every way.

Jim's Chris Fried Chicken.

That was my first job in a little shack in Mahea.

That's when my life started, really.

I always wanted to be a movie star, but after I had my child, I thought, I just

want to be a housewife until I get married.

At the age of 24, Anna Nicole Smith was divorced, working part-time, and single

-handedly raising her son, Daniel.

Her dreams of stardom seemed all but impossible.

That is, until she mailed a handful of nude Polaroids to Playboy.

Two days later, off to Hollywood.

Anna Nicole's Hollywood dreams came true in a bed, exactly where Playboy posed

her for her very first shoot.

The setup was on a bed, I know the first shot was, and on the floor, in rocks,

just all kinds of places.

It took them about 30 minutes to get that robe off me, and so finally the

robe came off.

You know, I don't think I'm hot, but if I look at a picture of myself, I'm like,

yeah, that's okay.

But if it's just me, I'm like, ugh, I'm pathetic.

But when I look at pictures, who's that girl?

The answer, of course, was Miss May 1992.

That's when Anna Nicole's photos were unveiled, and the global frenzy began.

The face and body most Americans know is about to get a lot more exposure.

When the world saw the Playboy magazine, that was incredible.

It was crazy.

The hometown went nuts.

As it turned out, so did Paul Marciano, the owner of Guess Gene.

Former waitress turned model. Yes, who is the hottest model in the world right

now? Paul Marciano saw one of the covers of Playboy, and I'm like, who's Paul?

The Guess guy. I'm like, what's Guess?

And two weeks later, I'm on billboards everywhere.

The guest girl.

Anna Nicole became one of the highest profile print models in campaign

history. And as her fame skyrocketed, so did public demand.

People wanted to see more of Anna Nicole.

A lot more.

In June of 1993, Playboy wrangled in Anna Nicole for her sixth pictorial with

a magazine. This time, the plan was to clean up her image.

That was a good one. That was the bathtub one.

I was getting ready for hair and makeup, and this guy had passed by, and I'm

like, I want him in my photo shoot.

I have to be naked. He has to be naked.

And they're like, oh, we can't do that. I'm like, do it. I'm not getting naked.

He said he would do it.

It was really exotic, and we were in the bathtub.

It's the one I won't forget.

Anna Nicole's been busy since her first Playboy shoot.

She's appeared in films like Hudsucker Proxy and Naked Gun 33 1 3rd. She holds

four Playboy covers to her credit and was named Playmate of the Year in 1993.

Hello and welcome. I would like to introduce Anna Nicole Smith, our 1993

Playmate of the Year.

She's had her own show and become the poster child for Trim Spa.

Not bad for a small-town girl who jumped onto a Playboy photo shoot and walked

away a household name.

It's got me all around the world.

I'm flying high right now.

This is my dream come true.

Bye.

It's one of the most recognized brands in the world. It's been seen on houses,

planes, nightclubs, parties, television shows, the internet, even body parts.

But at the end of the day, Playboy and its famed bunny ears are mastered at one

domain, Playboy magazine.

And that's all thanks to its famous founder.

Welcome to Playboy's Penthouse. I'm Hugh Hefner.

Oh!

What can you say about Hef that hasn't already been said?

Why is this man smiling?

I think Hef is brilliant. He's just one of those people that can get away with

anything. But I have six girls.

Where are the other three cameras?

He's an amazing man. He's made an amazing magazine that has changed lives

of many, many women.

I'm a guy who dreamed impossible dreams, made them come true beyond anything I

could possibly have imagined, and recognize that I am the luckiest cat on

the planet.

As a post-war America searched for a new identity in the early 1950s, it was a

gentleman from Chicago who would rise to the forefront with one answer.

When we have fun, we try to have fun to the fullest degree. The same thing is

also true when we work. I thought there was room for another more sophisticated

magazine for young urban men, and that was the notion behind the publication

that originally was called Stag Party.

Stag Party was to become the magazine for men between the ages of 18 and 80.

But just prior to its December 1953 release, the title was abandoned,

leaving the proposed dapper buck emblem in dire need of a facelift.

It became a rabbit in a tuxedo. The notion of a rabbit that seemed playful,

a little sexy, and put him in a tuxedo adds sophistication, and that was the

beginning of the whole concept of Playboy. I had this notion of creating

the Playmate of the Month, and because I didn't have any money for photography, I

went to a local calendar company. Now, one of the calendar pictures that they

had was a nude calendar photo of Adam Monroe.

When you look back at the history of Playboy, the first woman you think of

has to be Marilyn Monroe.

Marilyn was like one of the first sexual icons, and yet she always made

everything she did look playful.

Every playmate always kind of loved to look at the first picture, and Pamela

got to recreate it.

Bitch!

What do you say about Marilyn Monroe?

It was all downhill from there.

What is it about Marilyn Monroe that was so fascinating even Albert Einstein was

a fan?

I tell you, it's a whole different sex. She was sexy.

She was talented.

As a matter of fact, I spent three years at the Sheboygan Conservatory of Music.

And she could excite just about any man in America, like Yankee star Joe

DiMaggio, Broadway playwright Arthur Miller, and America's very own

president, JFK.

Marilyn burst onto the Hollywood stage with her trademark platinum blonde

hairdo in 1952's Monkey Business. But when Hugh Hefner ran Marilyn's swimsuit

-less photos in Playboy's first issue, an American icon was born.

This is the cover of issue number one. She was a budding star with a beautiful

body and not a strip of clothing to cover it up.

Her comment was, all I had on was the radio.

And that attitude towards nudity was so revolutionary that I think it helped to

establish what followed thereafter.

Marilyn's popularity kicked into high gear, starring in some of cinema's most

classic titles. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Seven-Year Itch, and Some

Like It Hot.

Not only did Marilyn Monroe become the major sex star of the 20th century, she

defined the ultimate example of what we look for in terms of a playmate of the

month. No doubt Marilyn's legacy as the magazine's first centerfold helped to

write her place in history, but others would come along to challenge her

mystique, and soon.

In February of 1955, America was bowled over by a Pennsylvania girl with a body

built for sin.

At a busty 5'5", Jane Mansfield would become the world's next great playboy

pin-up.

Well, well, well.

All boys together.

What a switch.

Well, she was a sex star.

Yeah, she had those, like, cone boobs.

No Victoria's Secret push-up bra for those.

She was a classically trained pianist. A classically trained violinist.

She spoke five languages.

But no matter how you cut it... Jane Mansfield is remembered as one of

America's first sex icons.

She appeared in each February issue between 1955

and 1958, on the way to landing movie roles in Will Success Foil Rock Hunter

and Too Hot to Handle. And you can see for yourselves why all men describe her

as much too hot to handle.

In 1963, Jane's nude scenes in Promises Promises spurred the pictorial, The

Nudist Jane Mansfield, a valentine spread so spicy it set Playboy's record

sales mark and got Hugh Hefner arrested.

Hef's obscenity allegations fell to the tune of a 7-5 hung jury, but the sex

symbol Jane Mansfield carried on.

Never learn.

Not only was she offered the role of Ginger Grant on Gilligan's Island, but

the fattish conical brassieres worn by women at the time were duped. Jane

Mansfield.

Want me to write out the numbers for you?

On June 29, 1967, Jane was tragically killed in a car accident while traveling

between Biloxi and New Orleans. Her sons, Miklos and Zoltan, and her

daughter, Mariska Hargitay, all survived the crash.

Jane's death became the subject of this Suzie and the Banshees song, Kiss Them

For Me.

Also, the title of the 1957 film she starred in opposite Cary Grant.

By the 70s, a brunette beauty from Northern California proved that it's not

just sex symbols that make the best pinups.

Barbie Benton was bred to be the perfect girl next door.

When we get married, how would you like a little cocker spaniel?

Well, I'd kind of planned on having some children.

The strange thing is how I'm perceived all the time.

They think I'm sexy.

I'm not sexy.

I'm just your average girl. Ready? Go! I was a cheerleader in high school. I am

that girl next door that's always trying to get everybody rah-rah to samba going.

By the time Barbie Doll and her sports-sculpted body left home for

college, Barbie's undeniable beauty was primed to woo the world's most eligible

batching.

I moved to L.A. when I was 18 years old to go to UCLA, trying to study Spanish

and pre-med. I met Heft very shortly after I came to Los Angeles.

Welcome to the party. This is my flame, Barbie Benton. It was a very busy

schedule. So much for the formal festivities. Everybody dance.

Adding to the mayhem was Barbie and Heft's flourishing relationship and the

fact that Heft still lived in Chicago's Gold Coast mansion.

Every Friday I got on a plane to fly to Chicago to be with Heft Friday,

Saturday, and half of Sunday. Not to mention that I had to get all my

homework done.

Barbie's method of travel?

Heft's very own DC-9, appropriately nicknamed the Big Bunny.

I felt terrible about flying on it. He would send the entire plane from me to

fly to Chicago.

And I remember asking him, how much is the gas?

And he said, I don't know. If I have to ask, I can't afford it.

But there's one question Hef never once hesitated to ask.

In fact, it might be his signature inquiry.

Hef asks beautiful girls to do Playboy the first time he meets them. He worked

on me so hard to become a Playmate. He offered me a special layout, and I

finally gave in.

In July of 1969, Barbie Benton turned her back on Playboy, and the magazine

couldn't have been happier.

Well, my first experience with Playboy was not new.

All you saw was my back.

I agreed to a cover. I wasn't in it, I was on it.

Eight months later, in March of 1970, Barbie took a stab at her second cover.

But this time around, Barbie wasn't just on the magazine, she was in it.

I didn't know that I could look that good.

Mom and Dad didn't know that I could look that naked.

When it came out, my parents almost disowned me.

Then my father had a lot of his doctor friends ask for my autograph on

the copies that they gave him. And I guess after about 30 people gave him

copies for me to sign, he finally gave in and said, well, maybe it wasn't so

bad. By the age of 22, Barbie accounted for three Playboy covers en route to

launching her celebrity career.

She danced on Laugh-In, guest starred on shows like Fantasy Island and Love Boat,

and became a mainstay on Hee Haw.

Say, Doc, I bet you get a big charge out of being a doctor.

No, but my patients do.

In 1977, Barbie and Hef decided to split ways.

Two years later, Barbie married George Grudeau and started a new life. But in

1985, she did return to her Playboy roots to shoot her fourth and favorite

pictorial.

That was the one that I shot in Greece. My husband was on the trip, and in the

picture of somebody massaging me, the hands are my husband. So whether Hef

likes it or not, he's in there.

Last time we saw Adrienne Curry, she was undergoing makeup for her upcoming

Playboy cover shoot.

Now, it's time for wardrobe and picking out the clothes she'll barely be

wearing.

Well, I have just changed into a robe to keep my body free of panty lines and bra

lines and clothes lines. Because although there is Photoshop, it is not

always perfect.

Here we go into wardrobe.

Hello, darling.

How are you? I'm good.

What are we thinking today?

They want red lingerie. We'll do the basic outfit that they're looking for,

and then we can also play around. You know, we have all day.

Let's start trying stuff on, and we'll see.

I've been told that red was not my color.

Oh, really? Great.

I don't know. Does it look bad?

I don't think so.

I don't think so. This is what some gay guy told me. It's New York Fashion Week.

I think these shoes and the pain.

It's going to be hot.

Oh, no, I just put this on here so you guys couldn't see my pussy.

It's true.

You look like a very sexy parrot.

We're waiting clothes approval.

What are you thinking?

Oh, it doesn't matter what I think.

It's all up to Playboy and what they want.

I'm just here to sit there and smile.

I am dressed very...

I guess Valentine's Day. But I think it kind of looks like a naughty nurse.

Later, we'll catch up with Adrienne as our February 2006 cover girl strikes her

pose.

In the 1970s, Playboy tuned in to the leading ladies of television to find

itself a whole new cast of celebrity centerfolds.

What they discovered was a Texas Longhorn-turned-TV star named Farrah

Fox.

what young girl was not a Charlie's Angels fan, you know? She's great.

I'm feeling a little Farrah right now with this hair.

So I'm thinking Farrah. I'm channeling her.

I remember Farrah Fawcett. She looks really hot.

I think anybody will be able to tell by looking.

Hollywood was kind to Farrah. She landed a small role on the TV movie Three's a

Crowd. She wed America's $6 million man, Lee Majors. And soon after, Farrah burst

into a television stardom of her own as Jill Monroe on the 1976 breakout hit,

Charlie's Angels.

I'm not afraid of anything.

In her first season as an angel, a poster of Farrah clad in a seemingly

innocent red bathing suit sold 8 million copies, thrusting Farrah into the role

of a sex idol.

She left Charlie's Angels after its first season and immediately resurfaced

in the movie Logan's Run. But two years later, Farrah agreed to rejoin the

Angels cast by way of guest appearances, and she timed her December 1978 Playboy

cover to make that announcement.

I did it. You what?

In December of 1995, at the age of 48, and almost 20 years after her first

cover, Farrah Fawcett returned to Playboy's forefront in what instantly

became one of Playboy's most popular issues.

And two years later, in July of 1997, the veteran celebrity and mother of one

sat in for Playboy one more time, proving that beauty has no age.

Get out of here.

After Playboy featured the Lone Star lady from the movie Three's a Crowd,

they turned their attention to a fellow 70s sex symbol who was making a name for

herself on the hit TV show Three's Company.

Turn around.

That's when the magazine unveiled some long-lost photos of the up-and-coming

Suzanne Somers.

I mean, everywhere you look at her, she's a girl.

Suzanne Somers, I see her a lot. We live close by to each other.

And every time she sees me, she's like, hey, dumb blonde. I'm like, hi, dumb

blonde. And then we just walk past.

She's done pretty well for herself.

All my life, people always said, you look just like Suzanne Somers. And I ran

into her at a party. And it was just kind of exciting, you know, this person

that you've always been told your whole life you look like and snort like. And

so it was kind of neat to actually meet her.

Suzanne started out as a prize model on a game show hosted by her future

husband, Alan Hamill. She then floated through commercial spots and bit TV

parts in the 70s before reeling in the primetime role of Christmas Snow on

1977's Three's Company.

Hi, Patricia Crawford. No, I'm Chrissy Snow.

Ten years earlier, Suzanne Summers had posed for Playboy. And now, with her

growing popularity, the magazine was quick to publish their photos of

Chrissy.

Oh, boy, you really loused up that toast.

It's not my fault. Eleanor didn't leave the recipe.

Suzanne Somers originally, I think, tested as a Playmate of the Month and

didn't make it. She then started her film and television career.

We ran the original test shooting on her. I think it was when she was doing

the Three's Company television show. And with that success, she came back again

and did a whole pictorial for us.

I'll get it.

As far as I'm concerned, she's already got it.

Television has been flooded with gorgeous women for decades, and it's not

just the leading ladies of dramas and sitcoms that make shows a hit.

That's why Playboy has made itself home to some of the most beautiful

hostesses... Hello, everyone. I'm Brooke Burke.

Hi, I'm Jenny McCarthy.

...ever to take the air, including one gorgeous goofball who catapulted from

her Playboy pictorial onto one of MTV's most popular shows of the 90s.

God, do you want to know about my life?

Jenny's life growing up, south side Chicago girl, middle class, maybe a

little lower middle class, played every sport there was, went to an all-girl

Catholic high school.

Sex was very taboo growing up, which is why I think they say Catholic girls are

naughtier because they want to know.

I was pretty good, though. I did sneak out of the window a few times. But

overall, I'd say I'd want a kid like me. It wasn't until the later years that I

think I became a black sheep.

Yeah.

I ventured out to southern Illinois to go to college.

Life as a saluki was a lot of fun for Jenny.

Perhaps too much fun.

I was like any typical college girl. You know, I was at nickel draft night.

I bartended my way to get through school. By the end of the second year, I

remember going, what am I doing?

I'm hungover every day.

Finally, I said, I can't do this anymore. I'm in debt, $20,000.

I need to go home.

I need to try something else.

That's when things started happening.

Jenny decided to chase down her dream. She wanted to be an actress, and that

meant simply getting noticed.

That's when I took some pictures of myself, like, next to my garage, because

it was the only white background I knew of. And they were Polaroid pictures.

They weren't even, like, good. They were just... I called the Better Business

Bureau and got a list of commercial and modeling agencies.

I had an appointment, and they wanted me to bring my modeling book.

My modeling book.

So there's more pictures of me by the garage.

And the woman opened it up and was looking at my pages, and her face was

just in utter horror, saying, what are you doing?

What are you doing? You will never be on a cover of a magazine.

Go serve beer in a bar because you look like you should be a bartender.

I kind of did. So I cried and stood outside downtown Chicago.

It was there on the streets of Chicago that the answers to Jenny's dreams were

quite literally spelled out for her.

The Playboy building in Chicago, headquarters is what I call it, had the

most incredible sign on top of the building. P-L-A-Y-B-O-Y. And I see that

building. I started crossing the street.

And I was like, what am I doing?

But I had nothing to lose.

So I hit the elevator button and went up to the Playboy floor and walked out the

elevator when the editor stopped me and asked me if I was there to try to be a

playmate and said, why don't you put on a bathing suit?

and take some test photos.

Like, oh, my God, I didn't even shave my legs.

I wasn't planning this. I went back, took some photos, like, terrified.

And by the time I got home, they called and said, your month's October.

I crapped myself.

I thought, wow, this is...

My opportunity to pay off my debt, to get to Los Angeles, and become the

actress I want to become. But how do I tell my Catholic parents?

Before Jenny came clean with her parents, she snuck off to California for

her first Playboy shoot.

When I first walked into the offices, I looked so innocent and pure.

And when I told them of my Catholic upbringing, Playboy went...

When I was shooting my Miss October layout, I was so terrified that they

actually came to me and said, if you don't improve your faces, we're going to

have to eliminate you. Go home and practice your face.

How do you be sexy in a picture?

Do you think you're trying really hard?

So my faces were like that.

I went home and practiced in the mirror and practiced in the mirror until I

realized. You don't have to really do anything.

At 21, with boobs out to hair, you just go, there you go.

The finished product had the folks at Playboy smiling.

They knew they had discovered something special.

They called me and said, do you want to see a picture? And I said, yeah.

And they went, and I just went, oh my God,

I'm pretty.

There was no Polaroid next to a garage, I'll tell you that.

I was really blown away by them.

With October looming around the corner, Jenny decided to finally deal with her

parents. The week before the issue came out, I booked my parents on a cruise

with the money.

I didn't tell them. I was young, I was blonde.

I waved goodbye and thought, oh my God, they come home, I'm dead.

I'm dead.

Jenny flew to California to roll out her issue, so she wrote her parents a letter

to fill them in on her newfound fame.

So I call my mom, she's now home, and she's crying.

And she's saying, at least I have three more daughters.

And then I just loved it because my mom is my best friend in the whole world,

and it was like a death in a family.

Sorry, Mom.

Jenny and her mother worked things out over the course of a couple of weeks,

just in time to tackle another Playboy predicament. So now I get a phone call

from Gary Cole.

I go in and sit down, and he says, Jenny, you've been chosen Playmate of

the Year.

And I said, great.

Thank you.

And walked out. And I remember his face going, wow, she didn't seem that

excited. And I walked out of his room and went, oh my gosh, he's screaming.

Because if there's a challenge, I'm going to get it. The problem was, I had

to tell my parents that they have to go through this all over again.

This time around, Jenny took her parents to a nice dinner to break the news.

So we're eating our filet mignon, and my mom's talking and laughing, and she

says, wow.

At least, you know, you didn't get that year thingy. And it's just over now.

And I said,

why do you say that?

I won Play Me the Year.

And she went, what?

I'd like to thank Hugh Hefner and all the readers of Playboy magazine for

choosing me as the 1994 Play Me the Year.

I said, yeah, but mom, listen.

I'm going to pay off all of your bills. Because we've struggled so hard growing

up. I mean, I watched my mom.

scrape the bottom of her purse.

And it killed me growing up. So I knew one day I'm going to take all their

bills away, which is exactly what I did.

My first check, I sat them down and said, bring it.

They put it on the table and I paid everything off.

It felt so good.

Jenny made a big name for herself at Playboy, appearing in multiple layouts

in her own Playmate video.

Now it was time to break into television.

So I looked at my manager's desk and saw a piece of paper that said, looking for

a female host for a game show on MTV.

I said, I have to. So he called and said, Playmate of the Year wants to come

into audition.

MTV says, no way we are ever having a Playmate on this network.

I freaked out. And my manager said, why don't you go? It's a cattle call. Go in

and see what you can do. I downplayed my body to try to be myself.

And they asked me for my headshot.

I didn't have one.

I just kind of stutterfold.

So I took a piece of paper and I drew a stick person and wrote my name and wrote

my phone number and said, here you go. And I went back 12 times to audition

because I think they were afraid my clothes were going to accidentally fall

off. Finally, I got the phone call that said, all right, you got the job. I was

loud, crazy, and picked my nose and I farted strictly for the fact I wanted to

show people I wasn't just a pretty pinup.

Jenny accomplished exactly that, and in 1997, her welcome sense of humor on

Singled Out led to her own sketch variety show on MTV, aptly titled The

Jenny McCarthy Show.

Since then, Jenny starred in and hosted countless television shows. She's

appeared in movies like Scream 3, Scary Movie 3, and Basketball.

That's two rooms done.

Even still, Jenny finds the time to keep things sexy.

I know exactly what you mean.

During the MTV years, I tried so hard to break just the pinup image and show

people that I can be goofy and real and funny. And then I realized that I kind

of had to bring it back.

It's good to be sexy.

I think every girl wants to feel desired and pretty. I think most girls do

Playboy for that reason.

In January of 2005, Playboy gave Jenny the opportunity to feel desired once

again. So ten years and one child after her first pictorials, Jenny returned

home to the pages of Playboy. I had to do something that represented who I was.

which is why I kind of did a little Elvis honeymoon suite party, a 60s theme

with a pink poodle.

It leaves a lot to your imagination.

So I had to try to find...

a middle ground to who I was because I'm the pinup that farts.

It's true. I mean, I don't want to be just sexy at all. That would kill me.

And I don't want to be this, you know, goody two-shoes, boring.

I really want people to still know that I dig Playboy and love being a part of

it while I still like cracking up. Good one, Joe.

Who's Ty Cobb?

Oh, my God.

Did I just fart?

From game shows to travel shows, it was the unveiling of E! Entertainment's Wild

On in 1997 that dedicated itself to visiting the most beautiful places in

the world alongside the most beautiful women in the world.

In 1999, a French-Irish-Portuguese stunner took on that challenge en route

to becoming the hottest tour guide in history.

In May of 2001, Brooke Burke ventured to magnificent Bali for her first shoot

with Playboy magazine.

And she followed that up with an appearance in November of 2004.

Brooke can still be found hosting television shows seen all around the

world. Hello, everyone. I'm Brooke Burke.

This is it. The season finale of Rockstar in Excess. Check this out.

Canada is best known for its maple leaf, its love of hockey, and Pamela Anderson.

She was one face in a crowd of thousands at a Canadian football game.

But the second her image was broadcast on the Jumbotron, LaBotspear immediately

signed her up as their Blue Zone girl.

That's when Playboy started knocking on her door, pleading for photos, and

making the claim that Pam could become the world's next celebrity B.I.P.

Well, that's what you're here to find out.

I was completely out of spite when I did Playboy. I lived in Vancouver, and my

boyfriend cheated on me.

I used to like Playboy, and all these people used to come up to me and ask me

to be in Playboy, and I always said, no, no, no, and finally one day I'd look at

them and go, okay.

Pamela packed a bag and jumped on a plane.

The innocent Canadian was headed to Los Angeles for the very first time. And my

first plane ride was to L.A.

I got here on Gay Pride Day, and there's floats going by and men holding hands,

and I called my mom and said, Mom, not only are there gay people, for real,

They walk around in pink shorts with handcuffs hanging out of their pockets

and they're holding hands. They're everywhere. They're everywhere.

Everyone's gay.

I never wore such a makeup until I came to L.A. So, I mean, it was just like a

whole new experience coming from here from where I came from.

Having mastered the lessons of La La Land, Pamela refocused on her original

mission. The time had come to pose for Playboy.

Well, the first photo shoot I did was to cover October 89 and I was wearing like

an Oxford jacket and I remember being horrified because it was... pulled apart

a little bit, and girls were reaching in, grabbing your breath, and putting

them in different places, and I was like, oh my God, a girl just touched my

boob.

After a successful cover shoot, Pam warmed up to the idea of posing totally

nude. We did test shoots and shots with lingerie, and they'd show you the

Polaroids, and you kind of started thinking, wow, this looks okay, this

looks okay, I can do this.

A self-assured Pam decided to go for it. So in February of 1991...

Pam's sophomore shoot captured a lot more skin.

The first new one, I remember, oh gosh, jumping around in the fountain, so much

of water, you know, and like stuff stuck to me and stuff like that. So it was,

you know, it kind of eased me into the whole nudity thing.

Sometimes I look at things and go, I'm just shocked that I actually did it. You

know, oiling up my body and like, you know, greasy and looking in the camera,

you know, with my fingers in my mouth or whatever. I'm like, what am I thinking?

Who are you?

I'm Bosom Woman.

It's fun though.

The part

of a

Playboy Playmate is one of several characters Pam has perfected over the

years. In 1991, she nailed down her first television role as the tool-time

girl on Home Improvement. And by 1992, Pam took on a double shift as DJ on the

global hit, Baywatch.

My Mercury and Venus is in alignment, okay? And there's going to be a huge

convergence.

Significant pieces of my entire life are headed for a crash-collision course. I

can feel it. When I was on Baywatch, they were furious with me that I did

Playboy. Then they saw what they did for the show, and all the rest of the girls

on Baywatch ended up doing Playboy. That's what I call creative marketing.

It was a fight. It was a big scene.

By the end of it, they were begging Playboy to put their actresses in

Playboy.

Okay, you made your point. Fine.

I still play Baywatch. And I actually saved my friend. We did one for old

time's sake. I had my friend Liz start drowning in the water. And I said, we

have a situation.

I gotta go in.

They're harassing that pussy turtle.

BJ! And I saved her, brought her back. It was hysterical.

You stop harassing that turtle!

And for boyfriends, too, sometimes I'll jump out of the shower, and they watch

Baby and Sleep, run around the bed in slow motion, and then get them up and

out. I'm Canadian. I role play.

In slow motion, that takes a lot of hard work. You have to practice that a lot. I

can still do it. Who was I with the other day on the beach? Cindy Crawford,

and she was running in slow motion next to me. I'm like, ha, ha, ha.

No, I'm kidding.

Everybody wants to do it. Everyone's done it once.

Hey, handsome.

Want some company?

Throughout a career that includes various TV shows, a cartoon called

Stripperella, and her movie Barbed Wire, Pam's longest running role has been with

Playboy. Pam currently sports an unprecedented 11 Playboy covers.

I think my favorite cover is the black cover. It's just a headshot, and that

was the shoot I did in Saint-Tropez. That was my favorite shooting because I

love the South of France.

You know, shooting on rooftops and all those beautiful colors and being in the

boats, and it was just such a great experience for me.

I knew exactly what I was doing, and I really enjoyed the experience, and I

enjoy what I'm doing now. Life is short, and we all end up in the same place, in

the ground, so the way we get there is the fun part.

The first babe of Baywatch exited the cast in 1997, leaving the door open for

a Cincinnati girl fresh out of the pages of Playboy. Beautiful!

They're going to love it!

Carmen Electra is more than just another pretty face.

She's a multi-talent who's done it all.

She's rapped on a CD, she's kicked off performances with a Pussycat Doll, and

she's showcased her good side on the popular kid's show, All That.

Then in 1996, Carmen revealed yet another side.

She electrified Playboy's May issue.

And later that year, she sang the showstopper in a Vixen video titled,

Playboy Cheerleader.

With her newfound Playboy success, Carmen scored a hosting gig on MTV's

Loveline, replaced Jenny McCarthy on Singled Out, and ultimately landed the

role of a lifeguard on Baywatch.

Hi, I'm Lonnie McKenzie.

In the year 1999, Baywatch moved production to Oahu to film its new show,

Baywatch Hawaii.

But even with its new lanai look and tropical location, The recipe for

Baywatch Hawaii's success would fall into the hands of its California roots.

The show's new star was a young woman from the California wine country named

Brandi Roderick.

I grew up in Sonoma County, and it's the wine country, and it's beautiful, and

it's very family-oriented and tree-lined streets. I mean, no cow tipping or

anything like that.

Acting was something I'd done ever since I was a little kid.

I just started out from scratch and worked my way up, and my first acting

job was on 90210.

Did Love Boat, did tons of commercials.

After all the TV shows and sitcoms and commercials, then I met up with some

friends that were actually playmates and got to kind of be in that whole world

and saw how the girls were like this wonderful sorority, happy family.

So I went down and did the test.

I was very nervous, I guess you could say.

Then we went out and got tequila, and we did tequila shots and margaritas.

And after that, the photo shoot went very well.

After Brandy finished her test photos,

Playboy suggested she turn around and head back home to Northern California.

After all, we're better for Brandy to shoot her April 2000 centerfold than in

her own backyard.

Well, me being from the wine country, they did the whole grape thing, the wine

country thing, which was perfect because that's exactly what I wanted to do.

We had so much fun. I mean, come on. I felt like Lucy smashing those grapes,

you know. It was just so much fun.

I was squeezing grapes everywhere.

We had a blast. And, you know, I was back home, so my family was there.

My parents are actually in one of the pictures. We're doing a little picnic.

Of course, I have clothes on.

But there's a picture of us having a picnic, my mom, my dad, me and my

brother all in the vineyard. It was fun having them all in my hometown and

having a good time.

After the photo shoot, Brandy began to hear the murmurings of naysayers,

suggesting that her upcoming Playboy appearance would bring her acting career

to an end.

How can I not be an actress after doing Playboy? You've got Kim Basinger, Farrah

Fawcett, and at that time I think Cindy Crawford was doing it. You know, I think

that's pretty good company to be in.

Brandi was right. As she awaited the release of her issue, she was presented

with an opportunity to follow in the famous footsteps of several celebrities

before her.

Probably a month before my issue was going to come out, they were having

castings for Baywatch, and they wanted to find a new character for Baywatch

Hawaii. And so it was like two months of casting, and then I got the job.

That was a huge pivotal

point in my life, my career, everything, moving to Hawaii.

It was just an amazing experience. And I think that it has a lot to do with

Playboy because Baywatch and Playboy had such a relationship in the past. You've

got Erica Elaniak, who was the very beginning of Baywatch and who was also a

Playmate. You've got Pamela Anderson, Tracy Bingham.

There's so many people that were Playmates or that aren't Playmates but

have been in both, like Carmen Electra. They go hand in hand. They cross at some

point.

In 2001, Brandi received a call from Marilyn Grabowski, a longtime Playboy

editor with good news to share.

She was like, how would you like to be our next Playmate of the Year?

Our Playmate of the Year.

I was so excited. I remember hanging up the phone and Stacy Kamano, who was on

Baywatch with me, I was jumping up and down. I was so excited. And I told her,

and she was jumping up and down. I remember that so specifically, that that

was just such an experience. exciting moment in my life, definitely.

True.

Adrienne Curry has turned notable appearances on shows like The Surreal

Life and My Fair Brady into instant celebrities. And today, her co-star and

fiancé, Christopher Knight, is visiting Adrienne on the set of her Playboy cover

shoot. Oh!

I like it when Brandi's touching me. I know.

You know, I met Adrienne naked.

You're awesome!

It's not my place at this point to put clothes on her.

Lucky me.

This was a goal of hers, to do this.

She also wanted to do a cover.

And that's what's happening, and that's pretty remarkable.

There's an extreme sense of professionalism she has with all of her

modeling, and she gets nervous about living up to the expectations that she

and others may have of the shoot itself.

I'd like to get her up just a little bit more.

The cut is very hard to work with. We shot with it during my pictorial.

I mean, it eats you.

There's no firmness, so it's hard to pose on.

I don't feel like I'm delivering today on this thing. I like the leaning back

shots, but I'm not feeling it, and I'm really scared that my pictures are going

to show that.

She can be scattered, but she's always dead on focus when she's modeling. I

mean, it's what brings out the maximum focus.

I want eight shots.

One.

One. I feel really bad. I'm not delivering. For some reason, I'm just

not feeling any of these poses.

We'll find it. That's why we have a day to do so. We'll check back with Adrienne

again later as production regroups for the perfect pose.

Playboy has always kept a close watch on the actresses of Hollywood, and over the

years, that watch has brought the stars of the silver screen to the pages of

Playboy.

Playboy hit the big time when it snagged itself the very first Bond girl in

cinema history.

A Swiss-born German goddess by the name of Ursula Andress.

Who is that?

Oh, Bond girl.

I see her coming out of the water.

And just how sexy and sensuous she would walk out of the water.

Gorgeous and one of the most beautiful ever.

Well, Ursula is a very dear friend and she was the first John Derrick

discovery.

Ursula emerged from the sea as Honey Rider in 1962's Doctor No.

She went on to star in several movies from the 1960s,

including Fun in Acapulco with Elvis and Woody Allen's What's New Pussycat.

In

1965

and 66, John Derrick captured his second wife's striking figure for Playboy,

earning her the nickname Ursula Undress. Guess what I've got on? My hat.

No deal.

I don't know.

Nothing.

In 1969, Playboy highlighted an American superstar by the name of Raquel Welsh.

Detective McHenry, a special assignment.

Did she pose for Playboy?

She's amazing. She's the best body ever in the history of...

Women. Do you have a description you can give me? She's got to be one of the most

gorgeous women to ever walk the earth, with the cheekbones and the dark hair

and kind of a more sultry European look.

A lot of women that were the big movie stars were the blonde bombshells. Raquel

Welch really embodied a newer kind of a movie star look for women at the time. I

see.

Raquel stepped into the Hollywood limelight at the age of 24, appearing in

projects like McHale's Navy and Routabout.

en route to her trio of mid-60s hits, Fantastic Voyage, One Million Years B

.C., and Bedazzled.

As Raquel reigned over the 60s and 70s, scuba suits and dough-skin bikinis never

looked so good.

I take this case very seriously.

Then in December of 1979, Playboy paid homage to one of Hollywood's most

celebrated actresses and one of the decade's most desired women.

Yeah.

In 1979, the same year that Playboy was tipping its hat to Raquel, a 5'4 starlet

out of Long Beach, California, was catapulting her second film to the top

of the box office. And in it, this beautiful blonde actress was scoring

herself a perfect 10. I'll accept that for now.

That thing is going to work.

I guarantee you that.

Bo Derek is absolutely beautiful.

I mean, who doesn't remember that scene in 10 when she's running down the beach?

I mean, she was just gorgeous.

I'm a big fan of Bo Derek. I think I tried to cornrow my hair once. It was

okay. I don't think I'd do it right now.

It worked for me about 10, 5, 7 years ago, whenever that was.

But I just remember seeing this little girl going, oh, mommy, please.

My mom saying, no.

Bo was hot as a pistol when she did her layout, but it let everybody know that

she looked fabulous.

She still does.

When Blake Edwards, 10, shot this pale-eyed bombshell to superstardom, it

was only a matter of time before John Derrick had his newest wife posing for

Playboy.

In March of 1980, Bo took her Greyhound China on a Lake Powell excursion that

Playboy readers will never forget.

By August of the same year, John's Asian-themed Bo is Back pictorials

proved that she was more than just another number. Bo was Hollywood's new

face of the 80s.

I believe today is the day I become an excessively rich little bitch.

You'll still be my friend, Cotton.

That's the only way I can keep my job.

The only way.

Pretty tough way to keep a job.

I am told life is not easy.

September's 1981 issue fell in suit with Bo's most recent film, Tarzan the Ape

Man, a movie her husband John directed.

And July 1984's photos followed the mantra of John and Bo's next film

together, Bolero.

Fantastic idea.

Bo's claim on the 80s bordered on hypnotic, but that's not to say the 90s

carried on without her. In December of 1994, John shot his fifth and final set

of photos with his wife. At age 38, the incredible beauty who once scored a

perfect 10 had become an 11.

Now that that's behind her. In 1982, around the time Bo was playing Jane of

the Jungle, a smiley-faced 7-year-old stole our hearts as Gertie in E.T.

Little did we know this young star would grow up right before our eyes.

But Drew Barrymore, I'm sure, like, the guys, you know, seeing her as a little

girl and she's grown up are kind of excited to see what she's going to look

like underneath her clothes.

Oh, right.

Drew Barrymore is a wild child.

Oh, that's good to me. And she looked like she was with her friends taking

snapshots. Like, whee, my T-shirt's off.

She had a sexy look when she posed for Playboy, kind of a pixie-esque look. And

then she went on David Letterman and flashed him and became all of a sudden a

sex kitten.

We were very fortunate to get Drew, and I think it was a unique decision on her

part. She comes, of course, from a remarkable acting lineage that goes back

to the great Barrymores. And she is a friend who decided to appear in the

magazine.

Then she changed that image, and she's morphed into this really smart producer

and businesswoman that's developing films and acting in these terrific

roles.

Smart. Her career goes on and on, and the extent of her talent continues, I

think, to amaze everybody.

I just want to say goodbye.

There's no goodbye.

Be good.

Yeah.

Playboy magazine has always made itself home to movie stars and TV icons.

But in 1998, Playboy jumped into the wide world of sports to feature a two

-time Olympic gold medalist. And in doing so, they revealed the most

accomplished and most alluring ice skater of the 1980s.

The first time I realized I probably have a lot of talent is when I was nine

years old.

Beauty and look for women skaters is a big part of skating.

I mean, luckily, I was always sort of comfortable with my body, comfortable

with myself. I loved performing. I loved flirting with an audience. And it was

just so much part of myself that I didn't play it.

At the mighty age of 18, Katarina used every ounce of her natural-born

athleticism to win a gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics.

But four years later at the Games in Calgary, a more sophisticated Katerina

would draw from her flirtatious side in an attempt to overcome America's

extremely talented Debbie Thomas.

That was definitely a very, very tough competition because we're both skating

on portraying Carmen, but totally in a different way. She picked pieces which

was more joyful and more playful, and I picked the music where it was very

dramatic.

Where I was able to play all the different facets of her, like being

flirtatious and trying to be sexy.

And then at the end, of course, I get killed and I'm dead on the ice and I'm

like, oh, I don't know if I win or not.

But luckily I did again.

They were after me for a long, long, long, long, long, long time.

But at this moment, honestly, I thought, there's no way. The whole skating family

is all about being an ice princess, and it's just all so beautiful and so

girlish and everything.

And then 10 years later, it was the point where I felt I've been just way

too innocent.

Katerina agreed to pose for Playboy on the back end of a skating exhibition,

but she wanted to keep it a secret.

I didn't want the other skaters to know. They were just wondering because I was

constantly doing workouts. So I did all these extra workouts, so I was in great

shape. I wanted it completely away from skating that had nothing to do with me

as a figure skater, because still, skating is very much a family-oriented

sport, and I didn't want other moms to take their children and go, no, no, no,

no, no, we can't watch her.

I wanted them done in a very pure and a very innocent way. I wanted to be

outdoors. I wanted to be in the sand and in the water. I mean, it was a little

difficult in the very beginning for me.

At first, we took a little easy. We were in the water, so I was a little covered,

at least by the water. And the joke of the day was, so what are we wearing

today? And we go, oh, nothing again. So it turned out then to be quite fun,

except the shots in the water, like 6 o'clock in the morning, were so cold.

And even thinking about the paycheck didn't help.

But most of the shot was just a really nice experience, and I was really happy

with the result.

Katarina's photos covered the December 1998 issue, marking the first time a

major athlete had posed for the magazine.

and preparing Katerina for a backlash of criticism.

It turned out that it was the opposite. After the pictures came out and they

were so beautiful and tasteful, I got so many compliments. And even out of the

skating world, a lot of people came to me and they really liked what I did.

And then seeing it in the Christmas issue and walking through the airport

and seeing other people, how they look at you and you go, hmm.

It's just completely strange, of course, when a stranger all of a sudden comes

and says, God, you know, I have your pictorial and it's... really beautiful

and you're like, and then you disappear.

I mean, the attention and draw was almost like another Olympic gold medal.

I've been working so hard for all my Olympic gold medals and I had to take

off my clothes and I got the same attention.

No sporting event would be complete without a good crowd and some on-field

action worth watching.

In February of 2000, Playboy featured itself a female football player of

sorts, and the star of 2004's Super Bowl halftime lingerie bowl.

Angela Kay Everhart was a bit of a tomboy growing up in Akron, Ohio, but

luckily, it was only a phase.

Angie grew up as the Firestone Falcon mascot at Harvey S. Firestone High

School class of 1987, but what a difference a year makes.

By 1988, the aspiring model, who had been told redheads don't sell, was

sporting the covers of Elle and Glamour.

and landed a major gig as the rear-end girl for Levi.

Through all of her modeling success, Angie kept a promise she had made to her

grandmother. She would never appear naked.

I don't think you're ready for that.

Then in 1997, the sensual sequel Another Nine and a Half Weeks hit theaters, and

in it, Angie Everhart appeared nude for the very first time.

Watch me.

Figuring the film transgression had already broken her pact with Grandma,

Angie decided to take the next big step. At the age of 30, she posed completely

nude for Playboy's February 2000 issue.

If you look closely, you'll see a tattoo on Angie's lower back, proof that the ex

-Fieldhouse Chicken had transcended into an angel, thanks in part to a broken

promise.

Along the sidelines of any good sporting event, you'll find a handful of top

-shape athletes.

And if you're lucky, you might spot Lisa Guerrero.

The world's sexiest sports reporter.

How does that happen?

When I was a little kid, my dad never told me that women can't be athletes. So

the first thing I wanted to do was be a quarterback.

Eventually, my sports interest got me a lot of opportunities on camera as a

sports reporter.

It is never too early to start talking football.

When I started out, I got national recognition because I made Dennis Rodman

cry.

Recently, most people recognize me from either Best Damn Sports Show period on

Fox Sportsnet or Monday Night Football on ABC.

They were certainly fun. I enjoyed being on the sidelines on Monday night because

I love football.

And I also enjoyed being on Best Damn Sports Show because I love a good sports

debate.

These days, Lisa is looking to rekindle the acting career she jump-started back

in her 20s, about the same time she lured in her first invitation from

Playboy.

20 years ago, Playboy came to me, and I said no.

And so every couple of years, Playboy's asked me to pose for them. It wasn't

right in my 20s. It wasn't right in my 30s. But as a 41-year-old married broad,

I figured, you know, this is the time to do it. And Playboy said to me, you can

shoot anywhere you want, and you can meet any photographer that you want.

They said, you know, you can go to Greece, you can go to Hawaii, you could

go to Paris.

I said, whoa, I want to go to Paris.

My husband wasn't able to go with me because he was playing baseball, so I

took my manager, Lorraine, my best friend, Dina, and my mother-in-law.

I can't even cook a proper meal yet for her son.

How am I going to tell her that I'm doing Playboy? I said, Stephanie, I'm

going to be doing Playboy.

And there was a long silence, and she said, does Scott know?

Yes, of course, Scott knows, and he's supportive.

And her second question was, where are you going to shoot it?

And I said, Paris.

So she said, can I go?

In September of 2005, Lisa made the trip to Paris to shoot her photos for

Playboy's 2006 kickoff issue.

I am in the January issue, and then I'm wearing a gold jacket.

And they're going to try something really unique using a gold leaf process

within the printing. So there's actually gold dust and gold leaf both on the

Playboy logo and on the gold jacket that I'm wearing. It'll be a collector's

edition.

I shot with an all-French crew and a French photographer in France.

And, of course, they think we in America are a bunch of prudes because, of

course, they've got naked women all over the place. It's no big deal. Moulin

Rouge, you know.

So to them, it was very natural and comfortable.

For me, it was a completely different experience. I have never posed nude

before. And it was an adventure in being comfortable in my skin.

As the world enjoys the photos of our most recent celebrity centerfold, so too

will Lisa's husband, Scott.

He hasn't seen them yet.

He will see the pictures when the magazine comes out.

And he'll love them. He better.

Adrian Curry's cover shoot has already taken the better part of a day.

But even with thousands of shots in hand, the photographers continue to

search for the perfect pose to cover Playboy's February 2006 issue.

Modeling basically asks from you, whenever it's very artsy or fashiony,

the way you have to contour your body and sit there and hold the same pose is

a little excruciating. I mean, I still say this is the easiest job in the

world. I was a waitress before this.

Basically, this was an amazing experience.

I'm very happy I was able to do it.

Joining the ranks of legends that have posed for Playboy is definitely a plot.

You know, it's something I always say. If anyone's like, ooh, dude, you posed

for Playboy, I'm like, oh, yeah, so did Stephanie Seymour and Cindy Crawford.

The final shot I expect to be friendly, sexy, mysterious, and

raunchy, all at the same time.

I definitely want people to open up and see what's inside because I'm very proud

of my work in there. And I'm very glad Playboy even decided to print what I've

done because I didn't think they were going to. It's very racy, but I'm very

glad they have.

As Playboy strives for 100 years of greatness, its most famous faces of the

past and present help to blaze the path for the celebrity centerfolds of the

future. I go to the mansion now and girls come up to me and say, I want to

be like you when I grow up. I'm like, stop, okay. I never thought that would

happen. It is so strange when somebody tells me that I am a role model.

I still don't understand it.

I'm always flattered when somebody says I'm a role model.

People always approach me about that. You know, young girls or girls that want

to get into the magazine, they're always asking how they can do it.

Anyone can go, really.

Go down and do your little test shots and go from there.

I would say to young girls, don't sell yourself only on your sexuality.

Sell yourself on your personality first.

And if that becomes a part of what you want to do eventually, great.

Do what you want and be who you are.

And there are people that don't like it and there are people that like it.

Some people have asked me, like my friends now, you know, who are pursued

by Playboy, they say, should I do it? And I'm like, yeah.

And they're like, Pamela, of course you say yes. I'm like, yeah, everybody

should do everything.

Amen.

Got that off my chest.

Ever since doing Playboy, I look at those magazines differently, and

I look at them.

with a respect for the people who are posing in the pictures because you have

to be brave to do it. When you look at the women who have posed for Playboy,

you look at some of my personal heroes.

I'm pretty blessed to be somebody that is able to be in that same category now.

I love that people are finally getting over the taboo-ness. Is that a word? I

don't know, of being naked in Playboy.

People are, I think, finally seeing it as something really cool and liberating

and classy.

And I hope my boobs don't fall to my knees so I can keep posing.

I didn't do it to get extra attention because I had all the attention before

and I didn't do it to take another step in my career because it's been going

very, very well. It was just a nice step aside.

There was a completely different experience, and it took me as a woman

and as a person away from skating, which was quite nice for a change. It was just

great. And I thought, actually, if I would have known that this experience is

so good and the reactions are like this, I should have done it earlier.

I think it's cool for celebrities to do Playboy because it kind of rounds out

the overall picture of their career.

For young girls who are living in the Midwest and go, my dream is to be in

Playboy, I think you have to be emotionally ready to handle what

attention comes with it, because there is a different kind of attention.

I think for the most part, every girl that is in Playboy has seen their career

soar after being in Playboy, if it's somebody that's a celebrity.

A lot of girls think that they're going to become famous by being a Playmate,

and that doesn't always happen.

I would imagine every doorway that's opened since has been because of

something I did, you know, in relationship to Playboy.

It goes back to, I guess, posing in Playboy.

Well, I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Playboy, for sure.

That was a great start for me.

Really good.

The whole getting through that awkward time of being shy to...

Being a woman and being comfortable with myself and my own skin, I think they

really, they started a landslide.

Playboy's still a big part of my life. I mean, it's not like something I've ever

said, okay, now that's over.

But I enjoy working with them, seeing them, seeing everybody up there, because

it's like family.

You have seven girlfriends now? What's going on?

How come I'm never a girlfriend?

Kevin's never asked me out. Julian, Kevin's never asked me out, ever.

Absolutely gave me the connection and some experience and so much more

to get my ass out here and make it and make my mom proud, which I wanted to do.

So I'm very grateful for the funny years.

Playboy from the very beginning has been a wish book or a dream book.

It is a magazine that speaks to the hearts and dreams and fantasies of young

men and women too.

The Playboy Bunny represents a lifestyle that is connected to personal freedom,

political freedom, economic freedom, and the fact that what this world is really

all about is the fulfillment of dreams.

And it is what separates us from the lower animals.

It is the dreams and visions that make life worthwhile, and I think that's what

Playboy is really all about.