Playmates
Tishara Lee
Cousino

Tishara Cousino has definitely still got it. She’s tall – 5’7” – with brown hair, brown eyes and long legs best paired with a pair of heels. She’s a real estate agent and interior designer in Las Vegas, Nevada, and most importantly, a Playmate, our Miss May 1999. “I’m a Vegas girl for life,” she says. “I’ve lived all over, but I always come home to Vegas.” Tishara was raised a Christian schoolgirl in Sin City, but the lure of the Strip proved too strong for her to resist. “Other kids hung out on the Strip, and I went camping with my friends,” she says. “But when I was seventeen, I saw a topless revue at a hotel, and I decided that I wanted to be a dancer.” She took dance classes for years in pursuit of her goal, and along the way, she got into meditation and alternative medicine. She started training to become a naturopath, but her plans – like many of her plans – changed. “I was visiting a friend in Los Angeles,” she says. “We were shopping at Guess on Rodeo Drive, and the founder of the brand was in the store. He asked me if I was interested in modeling, and I told him I was interested in modeling for Playboy.” He made some calls, and a week later, Tishara was shooting at Studio West. These days, Tishara deals in real estate sales and investments in Vegas, and she models as the opportunity arises. “I work all the time, so when I have time off, I like to relax with my friends and family,” she says. “I had plans for my future, but Playboy changed my life. I never thought I would be a model, let alone a Playboy model. I know that this was God’s plan for me.”