Walking the red carpet with Hef and the girls.


At the GQ magazine party in LA.


With Hef at the April 2001 premiere of the movie, Blow.

Hef and me in Cannes

October 2001 issue

From my October 2001 layout
photo by Stephen Wayda

An outtake from my pictorial
photo by Stephen Wayda

When my Cyber Girl of the Month pictures were posted in the Playboy Cyber Club, Hef and I went online at the Mansion to look at them together. Hef thinks the Cyber Girls are a good idea and a great expansion of Playboy on the web. He's excited because I was the very first Cyber Girl of the Week and of the Month. I know how much he loves Marilyn Monroe (well, who doesn't?), so I was incredibly honored when he said to me, "Stephanie, you're the Marilyn Monroe of the Internet." Learn more about
my start as a Playboy Cyber Girl by checking out my Cyber Girl retrospective
scrapbook.

Besides all the fantastic parties Hef throws, I've also had the chance to go to some amazing events with him and my Mansion roommates. We've been to the Grammys, the Vanity Fair Academy Awards party and the Golden Globes, just to name a few. I've met so many amazing celebrities. The Vanity Fair party is the hottest Hollywood party all year -- there's a celebrity everywhere you look. And the best part about it was that we were definitely part of the scene -- people were approaching us as much as we were approaching them. So far I've met Vince Vaughn, Tom Hanks and even Janet Jackson, but of all the celebrities I've met, I have to say the nicest is Jennifer Lopez -- I love her. She's beautiful and she has curves like a normal woman, instead of being super skinny like a lot of other starlets.

Going with Hef to Cannes and on a tour of Europe last spring was also amazing. I like Europe a lot. The sightseeing was great -- we did everything from visiting the guards at the Tower of London to cruising the Mediterranean on a yacht. It was incredibly fun, but it was a whirlwind -- I think if I go again I'd like to stay in one country for more than two days!

I was already thrilled about being selected as Miss October 2001, so I could barely control my excitement when I found out that I was also going to be on the issue's cover. I was driving when they called to tell me, and I almost got in a car wreck! It was just the icing on the cake for the most incredible year of my life. I've been fantasizing about being in Playboy since I was a little girl, and my friends are always reminding me of when I was 16 and I was joking around on the bed, acting like I was posing for my Centerfold. Now that I've made that dream a reality, I can move on to others.

I want to be an actress, and I'd also like to continue modeling, but it's really competitive out here in LA, so I'm also planning on going back to school. I've decided that I'd like to get a degree in communications and possibly become a broadcaster for a news organization someday. In the meantime, look for me in Ja Rule's new video, Livin' It Up and on the new fall TV show Rendez-View. I've also just shot a photo spread in British GQ, which should appear in that magazine sometime next year.

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