Hugh Hefner’s signature publication is doing away with its airbrushed, overhyped nudes and possibly fading into irrelevance.
While the articles were actually dope and educational, the spreads from the 15 best celebrity shoots for Playboy’s nude edition were the real attraction.
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15. Pamela Anderson
Despite her status as reigning Becky throughout the ‘90s, Pam is getting docked points because her joints were never real. Spectacular, yes. But the D’s were faker than a three-dollar bill.
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14. Jody Watley
Throwback status. Jody Whatley was enjoying all that post-Shalamar solo success, and lucky readers got to enjoy all of her God given anatomical beauty. Take that to the bank.
13. Kiana Tom
After years of watching ESPN’s Kiana Tom’s Flex Appeal for all the wrong reasons, readers got to see what was under the spandex when Kiana broke a sweat in the in the May 2002 issue of Playboy.
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12. Charisma Carpenter
Nerds loved Charisma off the strength of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel. Anyone else just needed two functioning eyes to see the former cheerleader was working with a great set of pom-poms.
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11. Abigail Ratchford
We’ve re-entered the Becky zone but with good reason, here.
10. Kim Kardashian
Despite being overexposed (pun intended), the future Mrs. West knew a good marketing opportunity when it presented itself and dropped trou for the December 2007 issue.
9. Vanity
The question posed by Vanity 6 was, “Do you think I’m a nasty girl?” The answer provided by this Playboy pictorial was a resounding, “Yassss.”
8. Robin Givens
However you felt about Givens and Mike Tyson’s relationship doesn’t change the fact the woman is fine in various states of undress.
7. Naomi Campbell
If you’ve recently watched Empire, then you know Naomi still has it. So of course, she was killing the game in 1999.
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6. Traci Bingham
There was only one good reason to watch Baywatch. Playboy eliminated that reason when Bingham joined castmates Pamela Anderson and Donna D’Erico as a member of the Playboy club.
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5. Arianny Celeste
Featuring MMA ring girls was arguably the smartest move Playboy ever made. And if you’re talking ring girls, the discussion starts and ends with Arianny Celeste.
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4. Daphnee Duplaix
Use your Googles. Duplaix eventually crossed back over into mainstream, clothed acting, but she gave us some serious heat back in the ‘90s.
3. Vida Guerra
Top five, dead or alive. The ill part is that Vida was all kinds of airbrushed and arguably not in her prime when she covered Playboy in July of 2006.
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2. Stacey Dash
Being a conservative puppet for FOX News doesn’t mean Dame’s cousin wasn’t super fine when she took off all her clothes for the August 2006 issue.
1. Garcelle Beauvais
This is the part where we remind you the woman who played Fancy on The Jamie Foxx Show was 40 (!!) when she covered Playboy in 2007. Black don’t crack.
