Me on the cover of Playboy Tawaian!

Me on the cover of Dutch Playboy,
August 2001.

From the Girls of Winter pictorial
that appeared in the February 1999
special edition. Notice the short hair?
Photo by Arny Freytag

The coolest thing about being the 40th Anniversary Playmate was that I became the very first Playmate to appear in the Playboy issue launches in Russia, Taiwan, Croatia, and the Czech Republic. I also have promoted Playboy TV in France, Spain, Mexico and Israel. Back in Holland they even crowned me Playmate of the Year. Unfortunately they're not giving cars away over there or $100,000 cash for being the PMOY -- the deal in America is pretty sweet. Also unfortunate is the fact that, over here, an Anniversary Playmate has never been a PMOY as well. I was hoping that maybe Hef would break that rule, but what the heck -- can't have it all, right? I went on to do four more layouts for Dutch Playboy, most recently in their August 2001 issue. For the layout, I went to Brazil and walked naked (literally) in the streets of Rio de Janeiro and Copacabana Beach. It’s an awesome 15-page spread and the cover! And it only took two days. Dutch Playboy shoots everything more like a fashion editorial, but with nudity, of course. It's a lot different, but it's just as great.

After I had my Playmate layout in the American issue, I cut my hair really short (I think I was in a state of insanity for a day). I guess it was a knee-jerk reaction to seeing myself nude and not being sure if I had done the right thing or not. I thought I liked my new crop for about two days...and then I absolutely hated it. But what do you do? I felt so unsexy (not a good feeling). The upside of all of this was that I booked a lot of commercials and other good jobs, but it forced me to keep my hair short. A lot of my fans wondered where I had gone for two years. After my hair grew back I made a Playboy comeback as well, doing some great promotions and posing for different pictorials including The Girls of Kiss, a Valentine's Day spread for the February 1997 cover and Mini-Me's New Year's spread.

On the February 1997 cover with
Echo Johnson, Rachel Jean Marteen
and Jami Ferrell.