
Anderson was then cast in Playboy’s reality show “Girl Next Door: The Search for a Playboy Centerfold” and won first place out of the 12 girls competing. Playboy founder Hugh Hefner told her she set herself apart from all the other Playmates.

“But I wouldn’t change a thing because it turned me into who I am now, which is a very confident person and I embrace my body and all its flaws and before I didn’t do that, I covered it up.” “And so it just kind of makes me cringe,” she admitted. “I know how insecure I was and how I was feeling at the time and that wasn’t who I was, being sexy and wearing sexy clothes,” she explained. The Milwaukee native was 21 when she posed topless for Playboy’s Girls of the SEC issue. On the docuseries, the blonde beauty, who described herself back then as “shy” and “not a party girl,” is seen rewatching a segment of “Girl Next Door” where she is posing on all fours - which she now called cringeworthy. “I kind of went as a joke just to kind of see what it was all about and they selected me … even though I said I wouldn’t do fully nude,” said Anderson, who worked for Playboy until 2012. Anderson got her first gig with Playboy while she was a senior at the University of Florida. She was a senior at the University of Florida when she auditioned for her first gig with the magazine, posing topless for the 2001 “Girls of the SEC” issue. She ended up winning the competition, and was on the cover of Playboy’s July 2002 issue and earned $25,000.Īnderson, now 43, is featured on the A&E docuseries “ Secrets of Playboy,” which premieres its Season 2 on Monday. The show required the final six contestants to pose naked, which led to the scary moment. The Milwaukee native’s dizzying experience came after she was cast in the brand’s 2002 reality show “Girl Next Door: The Search for a Playboy Centerfold,” in which 12 women competed to become Playmate of the Month. “Fortunately, the makeup people were all there and kind of caught me before I actually fainted.”


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