Q 6

PLAYBOY: One of your first movies was Poison Ivy: The New Seduction, in which you're often nude.

Jaime Pressly: That was my first big role, and all of a sudden they were going, "Jaime, we're going to add some things, like this scene is going to be topless and then this scene...." I was so new, I didn't know my rights at all. I locked myself in my dressing room and called my lawyer: "Look, they're adding scenes. They want to do lower frontal nudity. I don't want to do that." It was a scary situation, but at the same time I will say I don't ever look back and regret anything. I look at situations and think, What mistakes did I make? What do I never want to do again? I haven't made every right move in the book, but I can guarantee that if I made one false move, I didn't make it again.

Q 7

PLAYBOY: Let's finally set the record straight. Were you ever Drew Barrymore's nude body double?

Jaime Pressly: Drew plays Ivy in the first Poison Ivy film, and in Poison Ivy 2, Alyssa Milano plays the art student who moves into Ivy's old room in a house with other students. She finds a diary and pictures of Drew's character in a closet; the pictures are supposed to be of Drew, but they're of me, though you never see my face. When Alyssa reads Ivy's diary--Drew's diary--she imagines her, but instead of Ivy being Drew, she's me. People say I body-doubled her and it was my boobs and my ass in the movie instead of hers, but that isn't the case. I haven't had a body double myself, but I'm not opposed to it.

Q 8

PLAYBOY: You've often been better than the movies you've appeared in, such as Inferno with Jean-Claude Van Damme and Joe Dirt with David Spade. Did you ever get bummed out enough to consider calling it quits?

Jaime Pressly: I can point out films that made me want to slit my wrists, but I can't say they made me never want to work again. Everybody gets burned-out every once in a while. About four years ago I got super, super burned-out and needed to take a break to enjoy everything I was working so hard for. I got burned-out because you don't want to look pretty all the time; you don't want to dress perfectly all the time. You want to be by yourself and be fine with it. And I did. I gardened, went out with my friends, went to the beach for the weekend. It was good for me. Who's to say I won't be back to that place one day?

Q 9

PLAYBOY: What's the dope on performing with the Pussycat Dolls?

Jaime Pressly: I sang "Fever" the first time I performed with them. It was great, but there was all that anticipation and getting ready, then it was over in a flash. I wanted to run right back out there and do it again.

Q 10

PLAYBOY: Being so famously sexy-looking and well-known, what wild fan encounters have you had?

Jaime Pressly: People come up to me as if they've known me all their life, like we're old pals, so I'm not an asshole to them, you know? But when I had a house on the water in Huntington Beach, California, I went on MTV Cribs and everybody found out where I lived. On Halloween I walked out of the house, and--bingo--50 kids had jumped the fence. That started happening all the time. There were these three guys who would constantly jump over and try to watch me while I slept. I ended up having to move. I'll never do Cribs again.

Q 11

PLAYBOY: Does the increasing respect and fame you've earned through My Name Is Earl make you want to tackle something really bold and sexual like, say, a Monster's Ball?

Jaime Pressly: Anybody who does comedy probably wants to try something like Monster's Ball because that film has a deep, serious dramatic character who has a million levels to her. Yeah, there are nude scenes, and yeah, there is a lot of sex in it, but you don't leave that movie thinking, Oh my God, Halle Berry was naked and having sex. You leave it going, Wow, that was a gnarly film. I still want to do a great dramatic role, and I'm waiting for it to come along. And it will.

Q 12

PLAYBOY: Have your Emmy and Screen Actors Guild award nominations changed things for you?

Jaime Pressly: They lifted people's eyebrows a little, yeah. Even if I never win, being nominated after all these years of pounding the pavement changed everybody's outlook. Even before the nominations, though, people had changed their tune. They allowed me to grow up. A lot of times when somebody appears in men's magazines, people in the business want to put her in a box and say, "This is what you are." But they let me out of my box and allowed me to change my image.