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Years passed and high school came and went. I was an all-round
good student: honor roll, student government, drama, sports, homecoming
princess, and student council. I wanted to be a part of it all, except
for cheerleading. I started taking college courses and receiving
credits when I was 16 years old...ok, maybe I was a little bit of a book
worm. I didn't date because I couldn't until my senior year and had a
million of my brother's friends to hang with for guy time. There was no
doubt that I definitely was a guys' gal. They were my close friends and
I preferred to hang with guys instead of girls (things haven't changed
much in that department).
The same work ethic carried on into college: school newspaper, campus TV
station, DARE speaker, teen mentor and university debate team. My
brother and I shared a house with my best friend, and my parents would
stop by often to fill the fridge with food and beverages. Then we would
barbecue for our buddies, complete with green salad, pasta salad,
chicken kabobs, chocolate chip cookies, and boxed wine and beer (the
menu never changed). In college it became clear that the key to a happy
life is to find balance: work, school, extracurricular and social.
Social life tipped the scales of balance, but along the way I earned a
Bachelor of Science in Communications degree in 1997.
Degree in hand, I went to LA to visit a friend from Oregon. As she and I
were driving to her house one day, we happened to pass the PB Search Bus
in Century City. It peaked our curiosity because of the large crowd
surrounding the bus, so we decided to check it out. The spokesperson
said that they were looking for the millennium girl, so for amusement we
tested by taking Polaroids (which weren't nudity shots). A month later I
received the phone call that changed my life. It was a call from Playboy
with an invitation to stay at the Mansion and to test to be a Playmate.
Of course, I said yes to the invitation. I could not believe they called
me to test to be a Playmate. I've seen Playboy magazine before and
never, ever thought I'd actually be on the pages -- not in my wildest
dreams.
To see unpublished photos from my Playmate pictorial join the Playboy Cyber Club.
 
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With a group of Navy men
at a Miss Teen All American Oregon appearance, 1991
On campus at Oregon State University!
Photo by Arny Freytag
One of my test shots
Photo by Stephen Wayda
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