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February 2002 Playmate of the Month
Anka Romensky
Anka Romensky (Born 16 September 1980) is a Ukrainian model now living in Miami, Florida. She was Playboy’s Playmate of the Month for February 2002.
April 2008 Playmate of the Month
Regina Deutinger
Regina Deutinger (born 17 September 1982 in Munich, West Germany) is a German model and was the Playboy Playmate of the Month for April 2008. Deutinger as a child loved going to Oktoberfest, and even worked there for 3 years. She has attended business school, and hopes to one day take over her family’s window-installation firm, when her parents are ready to retire. Until then, she will be traveling, having already gone to Courchevel, France. One day, she hopes to visit Hawaii and the Maldives, but will always return home to Munich.
October 2008 Playmate of the Month
Kelly Carrington
Kelly Carrington was selected to be Playboy’s October 2008 Playmate of the Month. She was also featured on the cover of the same issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Stephen Wayda. The issue with her as Playmate and cover model had a headline advertising a pictorial of girls of the Big Ten Conference which doesn’t include the Univ. of Florida.
Kelly was named Hungarian Playmate of the Month in March 2009.
October 2003 Playmate of the Month
Audra Lynn
Audra Lynn (born January 31, 1980) is an American model and actress. She was Playmate of the Month in Playboy magazine for October 2003. Lynn also appeared nude in a photo spread in an Italian edition of Vogue with fellow playmates, Pamela Anderson, Tishara Cousino and Karen McDougal in 2004. It was a tennis themed men’s fashion spread shot in Las Vegas by photographer David LaChapelle.
She appeared in an episode of Viva La Bam on MTV. She also appeared in several episodes of E! reality television series, The Girls Next Door. She was a special guest on Frasier in the episode “Freudian Sleep”. She has also been on Mad TV, a celebrity week of Family Feud, won a game of Street Smarts for charity, was mentioned by Sum 41 on MTV’s Total Request Live due to a shoot that Sum 41 did of her, was on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Carson Daly, Late Night with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and Spring Break MTV 2003.
In May, 2006 she donated her time posing as a non-nude model for a class of student photographers. In 2007, she made a short appearance with full frontal nudity in the spoof film Epic Movie.Audra Lynn was photographed nude by Sum 41 for the celebrity photographer section of Playboy.com. Her Playmate centerfold was photographed by Stephen Wayda and Arny Freytag.
December 2003 Playmate of the Month
Courtney Rachel Culkin
Courtney Rachel Culkin is an American model. She was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for April 2005. Culkin tried out for Playboy scouts when they were searching for models for The 50th Anniversary Playmate Hunt. She appeared in the accompanying pictorial in the December 2003. Although accepted as a Playmate, the sheer number of women who auditioned for this nationwide search caused the two year wait to become Playmate. Her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag.
On October 3, 2006 she appeared on CNBC’s On the Money to discuss her stock picks. For the year she claimed to be up 35% based on strong performance in the retail sector stocks including Steve Madden shoes and bebe stores clothing stores.
She appeared on Playboy’s channel on Youtube discussing sex myths.
July 2006 Playmate of the Month
Sara Jean Underwood
Sara Jean Underwood (born March 26, 1984) is an American model and actress who was chosen as the Playmate of the Month for the July 2006 issue of Playboy magazine and later became Playmate of the Year in 2007. Sara Underwood first appeared in Playboy magazine not only in its The Girls of the Pac 10 pictorial of the October 2005 issue, but as the model featured on the cover of that issue as well. That cover depicted her holding a football, clad only in a body painting of an Oregon State Beavers football jersey and a painted imitation of matching bikini briefs. She next appeared in the magazine in July 2006, as the Playmate of the Month. In June 2007, Playboy honored Underwood as its Playmate of the Year, the first Miss July to receive the title, although she herself said, “I didn’t think I was pretty enough”. In March, 2008, Playboy magazine ranked her at #25 on their “25 Hottest Playboy Celebrities” list.
Underwood appeared in episode #2 of the E! network’s series The Girls Next Door, as a Playmate hoping to have her test shoot taken at Playboy Studio West. Subsequently, Playboy featured her as Miss July 2006. She has since appeared in several more episodes of The Girls Next Door. Underwood is credited with discovering Ida Ljungqvist while shopping on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, California. Ljungqvist featured as Miss March 2008 and went on to become Playmate of the Year 2009.
She appeared on the wedding episode of Kendra where it was announced at Kendra Wilkinson’s bachelorette party that Underwood had undergone breast augmentation surgery. Later, on The Howard Stern Show, Underwood confirmed that she had breast implants.
Introduced by a mutual friend Underwood had a two year on-and-off relationship with television presenter Ryan Seacrest, although she says they only ever kissed.
May 2006 Playmate of the Month
Alison Waite
Alison Waite (born November 10, 1981 in Los Altos, California) is an American model. Waite appeared on the cover of the May 2006 issue of Playboy. She was the Playmate of the Month in the same issue.
Waite was one of the four finalists for 2007 Playmate of the Year, along with Miss September 2006 Janine Habeck and Miss March 2006 Monica Leigh. The three lost to Miss July 2006 Sara Jean Underwood.
January 2008 Playmate of the Month
Sandra Nilsson
Sandra Nilsson (born 17 February 1986 in Ystad, Sweden) is a Swedish model who was the Playboy Playmate of the Month for January 2008.
June 2009 Playmate of the Month
Candice Cassidy
Candice Cassidy (born on October 23, 1985 in Portsmouth, Ohio) was the Playboy Playmate of the Month for June 2009 and before that was a Cyber Girl in 2006. Playboy founder, Hugh Hefner designed the photoshoot. It was the first time that he had designed a shoot in over 10 years. It was also the first outdoor shoot for the magazine in over 20 years. Holly Madison directed the photoshoot and the photography was provided by Arny Freytag.
August 2002 Playmate of the Month
Christina Santiago
Christina L. Santiago (born October 15, 1981 in Chicago, Illinois) was one of three finalists of the Fox TV special Who Wants to Be a Playboy Centerfold and was chosen as Playboy’s Playmate of the Month in August, 2002. She then became Playmate of the Year (PMOY) in 2003. She appeared in the 2005 Playmates at Play at the Playboy Mansion swimsuit calendar as calendar girl of August. In 2007, she was featured in the The-Dream’s video Shawty Is a 10 as one of the love interests of the singer.
