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Actress and fashion model Dree Hemingway, 28, is the March
Playmate for the first so-called "non nude" edition of the
62-year-old magazine, which hits U.S. newsstands on Feb. 12,
Playboy said on Thursday.
Social media personality Sarah McDaniel appears on the front
cover in an edition that Playboy describes as showcasing
"beautiful women with a very real, relaxed vibe."
In the new-look magazine, Hemingway and McDaniel pose both
scantily clad and naked, while partly covering themselves
strategically with their hands, bed sheets or rugs.
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had become outdated due to the plethora of free pornography on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.
Former "Baywatch" star Pamela Anderson was the last person to
bare it all for Playboy for the January/February 2016 edition.
Playboy Enterprises Chief Executive Scott Flanders said the new
look magazine was a "labor of love." It also contains interviews
with actor James Franco, U.S. television news anchor Rachel
Maddow, and an essay by "American Psycho" novelist Bret Easton
Ellis.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Bernadette Baum)
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