Go bad with good girl Lindsey Gayle Evans, our Miss October 2009. She’s tall – 5’10” – and all natural, with blonde hair and soft green eyes. A devoted member of her Baptist church – and a member of the choir, to boot – Lindsey was named Miss Teen Louisiana in 2008, but she didn’t hold the title for long. She pulled a dine-and-dash at a local restaurant, but forgot her purse on the table, which contained her wallet, identification and enough weed to warrant a charge for possession. She was arrested and stripped of her Miss Teen Louisiana title.

Most of us would die of shame, but not Lindsey – she smiled for her mug shot, and she took her bad press with good humor. “One night I found myself on the Playboy site,” she says, in a charming Southern accent. “I thought, why not?” She sent us an email – “Y’all interested?” – and waited patiently for our response. “I want to go as far as I can with Playboy,” says Miss October. “I’m going to get rich and famous, and then I’m going to settle down in a big old Louisiana plantation house.” After a high-profile relationship with electro-house producer Deadmau5, she’s well on her way to fame, but she’s not ready to settle down just yet – every other post on her Facebook page is a check-in at an international airport. As Miss October says herself, let the good times roll.

It was exactly a year ago that 2008’s reigning Miss Louisiana Teen USA, Lindsey Gayle Evans, was – as they say in her home state – up shit creek. The Northwestern State University broadcast-journalism major from Blanchard, Louisiana had involved herself in a dine-and-dash at a restaurant, only to realize she had left behind her (oops) pink wallet containing her ID and (oops) a nickel bag of pot. She ended up in the back of a cop car, “bawling my eyes out,” Lindsey remembers. She knew this one would make the news. “I said to myself, Attitude adjustment time, girl. Fuck the crown. Turn the frown upside down and smile for that mug shot.” Score one for Team Evans: The tabloid press could resist neither Lindsey’s deliciously blonde saga nor the beaming mug shot that accompanied it. Pageant officials weren’t as charmed; Miss Louisiana Teen USA was stripped of her title. “For a long time I was a competitive goody-goody girl who sang in my Baptist church choir and made good grades. Then one night I found myself on Playboy, and I sent a message that went something like ‘Hey, this is Lindsey Evans. I’m a former Miss Louisiana Teen USA, and I’m tired of being good. Are y’all interested?'” Indeed we were.

What’s next for Miss October? “I want to go as far as I can with Playboy. I want to be the next Pamela Anderson. Why not? I’m a girl who likes to have a good time, just like she does. So let the good times roll: Laissez les bons temps rouler!“