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 Playboy magazine said on Thursday the 48-year-old former
"Baywatch" star will be featured on the cover of the
January/February 2016 edition that will hit newsstands on Dec.
11. She also gets a 12-page photo spread and is interviewed by
actor James Franco.
Playboy, founded in 1953 by Hugh Hefner, announced in October
that it would stop publishing nude photos of women, saying they
had become outdated due to the plethora of free pornography on
the Internet. Playboy's circulation has dropped from about 5.6
million in 1975 to around 800,000 in recent years
The new issue will mark Anderson's 14th appearance on the
Playboy cover since 1989, more than any other celebrity.
"I got a call from (Hugh Hefner's) attorney, who said, 'We don't
want anybody else. There's nobody else, could you do the last
cover of Playboy?'" Anderson told celebrity outlet Entertainment
Tonight.
The actress and model said she had checked first with her sons
Brandon, 19, and Dylan 17, before agreeing because for years the
boys had been "teased and made fun of, and had a few fistfights
over their mom." This time both of them encouraged her to do it,
she said.
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Anderson said she made the most of her last Playboy photo shoot. "I
took off all my clothes, and I rolled down the hill as fast as I
can," she said. "I was just screaming, and hair and boobs were
flying, and shoes were going everywhere."
Playboy featured Marilyn Monroe on its debut cover in 1953, and
printed a nude centerfold of the Hollywood actress. But the photo
was bought by Hefner from a printer who made calendars, and Monroe
did not pose nude specifically for the magazine.
Playboy said its March edition would feature a new design and its
mix of interviews, fiction and long-form journalism. It will
continue to publish "sexy, seductive pictorials" of women, including
its iconic Playmates, but they will not be nude.
(Reporting By Jill Serjeant; Editing by Chris Reese and Jonathan
Oatis)
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