Q 6

PLAYBOY: How did you get to the top of your profession?

Shelley Hack: If you mean modeling, I was a success because I was hard-working, professional, bright. I looked at the business and identified the markets. I knew the key was that they always wanted someone new. I decided to hit one market one year, then cut my hair and hit another, then let it grow and hit television. I thought it through. The game plan can apply to any business, but especially to one where you're the product. You just have to become objective about yourself.

Q 7

PLAYBOY: Have you ever been dumped by a man?

Shelley Hack: Yeah. I'm always the one who sticks it out in a relationship after I should leave. By the time he says that we should end this thing, it's always a good idea. I guess I'm ready, too, but I really find it hard to hurt someone's feelings.

Q 8

PLAYBOY: Are any of the guys who left now calling back?

Shelley Hack: I don't know how they'd get my number.

Q 9

PLAYBOY: What's your idea of a fun date?

Shelley Hack: A fun person to have dinner with. Or lunch. Or to go to the beach with. I can have a fun date just sitting in the living room, talking to someone, if he's interesting. I've never felt the need, especially after I became successful, to have men take me out to a fancy dinner or something. I could just as well eat a hamburger and have some good laughs.

Q 10

PLAYBOY: What kind of guy do you like to date?

Shelley Hack: Offbeat, bright, funny ones. Never macho types. I find intelligence and a certain sexuality intriguing in a man. I like someone who knows where he's going and has a definite sense of himself.

Q 11

PLAYBOY: Your business is high-pressure. What do you do to blow off steam?

Shelley Hack: I jog, I read. Most recently, The Snow Leopard. I'm also reading Path Between the Seas and a history of the French Revolution written according to the theory of historiography. It deals with history in terms of individuals and small, pivotal moments. I like European and ancient history the best. My thesis at Smith was on the plan drawn up by Count von Schlieffen that got Germany into all that trouble in World War One, when they violated the neutrality of Belgium....

Q 12

PLAYBOY: Ah...when did you first realize you were good-looking?

Shelley Hack: What a strange and weird question to ask. When I was younger, I was taller than all of the boys. I've really never thought of myself as anything special. I became a model at 14, so I must have looked OK, but when you do it for so long, you get very objective about your looks and you don't sit around thinking, Gee, I'm attractive.