Who says there's anything wrong with being a pinup? Not cover girl, calendar icon and aspiring singer Mayra Veronica. "When you get into music, you're supposed to put that aside," she says. "But being sexy and wearing revealing clothing is who I am, and I'm not going to deny that aspect of myself. I always say it would be an insult to God's creation for me to cover up." Cuban-born Mayra has never been shy about her body, which for a time was one lucky art student's inspiration. "My first boyfriend was an artist; he went to the School of Visual Arts in New York," she recalls. "I modeled nude for him all the time. I was very comfortable with it. I have beautiful paintings of myself at home -- they're in the bedroom, not the living room." In 2007 Mayra joined hip-hop stars Big Boi, Young Jeezy and Ludacris (along with past Playboy Babes of the Month K.D. Aubert and Melyssa Ford) in the video game Def Jam: Icon. As moderate gamers, we're curious: Did she get the Lara Croft treatment? (That's our term for game designers' habit of taking a realistic rendering of a heroine and boosting her breasts a few cup sizes -- just because they can.) "Actually, I was thinking the opposite," she says, perturbed. "In my case I think they brought them down. When I saw my character I said, 'I thought I was larger in...those areas.' Maybe they tried to tone it down a little for the kids."
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