

She was introduced to her husband, former MLB player Reid Brignac - who had a short stint with the Yankees among other teams - at a Playboy party, and the pair now have two sons, ages 11 and 6. “You could order food 24 hours a day and they would make you whatever you wanted,” she remembered.

Picture: Getty ImagesĪfter Girl Next Door, Anderson dropped out of college and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career with Playboy, doing jobs like hosting parties and benefits and conducting tours of the Playboy Mansion, which she said had this lavish amenity.

She ended up winning the competition, and was on the cover of Playboy’s July 2002 issue and earned $25,000. “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. 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.” I wanted to be really skinny, and I hadn’t eaten anything,” she told the New York Post. Former Playboy Playmate Lauren Anderson blacked out at her first nude photoshoot for the brand.
