2009 – PB Playmates

Crystal Carter Harris

Crystal Carter Harris was at a crossroads. "I was in my last semester at San Diego State, getting a psychology degree, and I didn't know what I wanted to do next," says the 23-year-old.

Lindsey Gayle Evans

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.

Kimberly Phillips needed a break, damn it. The 22-year-old from Corona, California had been working her perky butt off ever since she could remember, earning A's in high school, paying for a car through a slew of waitressing jobs and…

Jessica Burciaga

Another thing that turns Jessica off? Boring men. She says, "I need someone who gives me a run for my money."

Hope Dworaczyk Smith

She won a Texas beauty pageant. She aced her accelerated-studies program and graduated early, at the age of 16, then got an agent and started modeling professionally.