My first experience with Playboy was posing for their "Girls of the SEC" pictorial in the October 2001 issue. I only posed topless because I was nervous to go totally nude, but things have certainly changed since then! That February I was asked to be one of the 10 contestants on the Fox TV special Girl Next Door: The Search for a Playboy Centerfold. The competition was tough, so I was surprised and thrilled when Hef named me Miss July 2002.