Playboy’s Playmates
1980 – 1989
Playmates of The Year (PMOY)
Playmates of The Month (PMOM)

Jeana Tomasino
I need a lot of romance. That extra phone call, flowers or something silly in the mail.

Lisa Welch
This is my first experience as a nude model, but, I find it to be easier than fashion modeling.

Liz Glazowski
I think Catholics are probably more guilt-ridden about sex than other people, but I’m not.

Martha Thomsen
I’m a person of extremes. I’m caught between the romantic and the bizarre. I love things that are not necessary.

Teri Peterson
Sex, for me, anyway, is almost an artistic expression created by two people. Of course, it helps if you’re in love.

Terri Welles
I’ll get a chance to present what I hope will be a good imagine of the Playmates to the public.

Cathy Larmouth
I think women are more emotional than men. I don’t think blurring the sex roles makes any sense.

Debbie Boostrom
My family thinks my being a Playmate is wonderful. Even my grandmother thought it was great.

Heidi Sorenson
It took me a while to pose for Playboy though, but, I thought if I didn’t do it, I’d kick myself later.

Patricia Farinelli
It’s all nonsense; one guy likes legs, another guy likes boobs… you have to look at what’s inside.

Shannon Lee Tweed
I really had always wanted to be a Playmate. Every girl’s fantasy is to be the most beautiful.

Susan Smith
When you go up for your black belt, there are no more camera angles. You recite the poem of perseverance.

Vicki Lynn Lasseter
I know my Playboy work isn’t going to last forever and I want to take advantage of all of it.

Cathy St. George
I always worked on my personality, because I thought that was the only thing that would get me anywhere.

Charlotte Kemp
Running has opened up my life. Besides the physical part of it, there’s spiritual dimension.

Kimberly McArthur
Lying in front of a fire, roasting marshmallows. If you can’t tell, I’m a hopeless romantic.

Linda Rhys Vaughn
My mother told me that if you don’t follow up on your dreams, you’ll wind up desperate and frustrated. So I called Playboy.

Lourdes Estores
I love the feel of the stage—the lights, the smiles, the fun—but, I don’t think I could ever be a star myself.

Marianne Gravatte
I try not to make eye contact, but, sometimes you can’t avoid it. Being the center of attention makes me nervous.

Marlene Janssen
I’m too much of an outdoorsy person for a nine-to-five job. I had one for two years, and after I quit.

Alana Soares
Girls come up to me on campus and ask, “Are you proud to be in Playboy?” I say yes. It’s an honor to be a Playmate and a brunette.

Carina Persson
I like to experiment with sex, to feel my way along in finding out what the other person likes and to show him what I like.

Christina Ferguson
What do I have to say about these pictures? Well, I’ve always enjoyed lying around naked with eight or ten people taking pictures.

Lonny Chin
I was lucky enough to be chosen as the first video Playmate on both the cassette and the disc versions.

Melinda Mays
Ice cream is one of my weaknesses. I’d say I go to Baskin-Robbins for ice cream at least four nights a week.

Ruth Guerri
You have to pull yourself out of a depression. You can’t depend on someone else to do it.

Terry Nihen
I don’t know when I first thought of modeling as a career. I knew it was a clothes-on, clothes-off proposition.

Tracy Vaccaro
I don’t have that kind of look, but I’ve got a real nice body, and I’ve got… beautiful legs.

Dona Speir
How long will I model? Well, I believe I’ll go crazy before I get too old for this business.

Justine Greiner
Being a Playmate has made me more aware that I can be sexy. I think every woman should pose nude.

Karen Velez
One of the reasons I posed for Playboy was to see if I was really as insecure about my looks as I thought I was.

Lesa Ann Pedriana
When I was in high school, I thought being a Playmate was far too… I mean, I couldn’t even see that.

Liz Stewart
It’s easy after you become a Bunny and you know what you’re doing, know the ropes. But, it’s not easy to become a Bunny.

Patty Duffek
I had never modeled before in my life. So, naturally, I hadn’t modeled with my clothes off.

Roberta Vasquez
I discovered I have to adopt a different personality toward the public because I’m a woman.

Suzi Schott
I don’t feel famous. I’m excited by being a Playmate. I feel glamorous, but also feel like one of the guys.

Cherie Witter
I’ve always been told I was unique-looking, but unique doesn’t always make it for a model.

Cindy Brooks
I have definite feelings about women’s lib. I think the main idea is terrific. I think they’ve gotten carried away with it.

Cynthia Brimhall
You know, I really have expensive taste in lingerie. Some of it was even from Rome.

Devin DeVasquez
They called me back to compete, but I was busy doing the Playmate Playoffs show for The Playboy Channel.

Pamela Saunders
I let men get to me and I’ve got a nervous stomach. I don’t think I want to get married.

Ava Fabian
Exposing myself in front of millions of people was an experience I’d been thinking about. I felt sexy and I wanted to share it.

Christine Richters
I don’t want to have to go to bed with all those guys, and that’s what they expect. That’s just the way they are.

Donna Edmondson
Virginity isn’t something you discuss. I’m not ashamed of still having mine, mind you.

Julie Michelle McCullough
It’s important to me to be able to achieve something on my own, I don’t necessarily have to be rich.

Lynne Austin
I started doing bikini contests on a wing, a bikini and a prayer. Hell, my mom even bought me my first bikini.

Rebecca Ferratti
I’m a high-energy person around the clock. I know that whatever I do, I will be very happy.

Sherry Arnett
It’s not that I love modeling so much, but it opens up possibilities for a future I can really enjoy.

Brandi Brandt
Being Miss October is a thrill. I feel so sexy. But, I hope it’s just the first thrill.

Gwen Hajek
I’d never modeled before, so posing for Playboy has been like a crash course in modeling techniques for me.

Julie Peterson
For the first time in my life, I was away from horses and had no place to channel that energy.

Luann Lee
Things have worked out wonderfully. Working hard when it’s worktime and playing when it’s playtime.

Marina Baker
I’ve done things before that have been very camp, very feminine. I want my solo show to be hard-hitting.

Emily Arth
I’m on a classics binge. I wouldn’t call myself cerebral, really, but intellectual things do appeal to me.

Kimberley Conrad
I really think the key to being sexy is to think that way. I can be a flirt, but I’m very passionate by nature.

Shannon Long
You work a few months, you take off for a few months for a little adventure. You have to enjoy the freshness.

Terri Lynn Doss
I’ll be whatever—I really have no idea what I’m going to be, but I know one thing: I’m going to enjoy it.

Fawna MacLaren
I looked at the cover and thought, “that girl’s pretty”, and then I thought, “wait a minute, that girl’s me!”

Jennifer Lyn Jackson
My ambition is to follow the golden road of success to the top… and to be happy.

Karin & Mirjam van Breeschooten
I dragged her to a mirror and made her look, oh, for sure, that’s the girl who will be in Playboy.

Monique Noel
I wasn’t quite prepared for this. You don’t pose nude every day. But once I decided to just be me, it was easy.

Petra Verkaik
It was a very long thirty seconds. I pushed it up and slid under it. Then it landed on my hair.