List of Playboy Playmates of 1981

The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1981. Playboy magazine names their Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year.

January

Main article: Karen Price
Karen Price
Personal details
Born (1960-07-17) July 17, 1960
Pasadena, California[1]
Measurements Bust: 38[1]
Waist: 26
Hips: 37
Height 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)[1]
Weight 123 lb (56 kg; 8.8 st)

Karen Elaine Price (born July 17, 1960)[1] is an American model, stunt woman and television producer. She is sometimes credited as Karen Castoldi. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month in January 1981. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus.[1]

After she became a Playmate, Price started acting, but soon switched to performing stunts for over two dozen movies including Leonard Part 6 (1987), Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985), and The Golden Child (1986). After a hiatus, she began a new career as an associate producer of television programs such as Amazing Vacation Homes (2004) and Amazing Babies (2005).

Price made a cameo appearance of sorts in the early Mel Gibson film The Road Warrior - her centerfold is pasted onto a tailfin of Gyro Captain's Benson gyrocopter.

February

Vicki Lasseter
Personal details
Born (1960-02-19) February 19, 1960
Iola, Kansas
Measurements Bust: 36"
Waist: 23"
Hips: 34"
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Weight 120 lb (54 kg)

Vicki Lynn Lasseter (born February 19, 1960 in Iola, Kansas) is an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its February 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag.

March

Kymberly Herrin
Personal details
Born (1957-10-02) October 2, 1957
Santa Barbara County, California[2]
Measurements Bust: 36"[2]
Waist: 24"
Hips: 36"
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[2]
Weight 124 lb (56 kg)

Kymberly Ellen Herrin (born October 2, 1957)[2] is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its March 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag.[2] Herrin had several small roles in films of the 1980s, such as Ghostbusters and Romancing the Stone, as well as the ZZ Top video "Legs".

April

Lorraine Michaels
Personal details
Born (1958-01-23) January 23, 1958
Canterbury, England
Measurements Bust: 35"
Waist: 22"
Hips: 34"
Height 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m)
Weight 103 lb (47 kg; 7.4 st)

Lorraine Michaels (born January 23, 1958 in Canterbury, England) is an English model and actress. She was chosen as Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month in for the April 1981 issue.

May

Gina Goldberg
Personal details
Born Tiina Virenius
(1963-06-30) 30 June 1963
Turku, Finland
Measurements Bust: 36"
Waist: 24"
Hips: 36"
Height 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Weight 105 lb (48 kg)

Gina Goldberg (born Tiina Virenius 30 June 1963 in Turku) is a Finnish model, actress and singer. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its May 1981 issue.

June

Cathy Larmouth
Personal details
Born (1953-07-15)July 15, 1953
Torrance, California, United States[3]
Died January 4, 2007(2007-01-04) (aged 53)[3]
Measurements Bust: 38"[3]
Waist: 26"
Hips: 37"
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[3]
Weight 127 lb (58 kg)

Cathy Larmouth (July 15, 1953 – January 4, 2007[3]) was an American model who was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its June 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus.[3] A year after her centerfold, she appeared as a contestant on The Joker's Wild winning several games.

Larmouth died on January 4, 2007 of a heart attack at the age of 53, after a period of declining health. She was survived by two daughters.[4]

July

Heidi Sorenson
Personal details
Born (1960-08-05) 5 August 1960
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Measurements Bust: 36
Waist: 24
Hips: 34
Height 5 ft 7.5 in (1.71 m)
Weight 120 lb (54 kg)

Heidi Sorenson (born in Vancouver, British Columbia on August 5, 1960) is a Canadian model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its July 1981 issue.

She was in the 1985 vampire horror film Fright Night as well as the 1985 comedy Spies Like Us.[5]

August

Debbie Boostrom
Personal details
Born (1955-06-23)June 23, 1955[6]
Peoria, Illinois
Died July 29, 2008(2008-07-29) (aged 53)[7]
Florida[7]
Measurements Bust: 37.5"[6]
Waist: 23"
Hips: 34"
Height 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)[6]
Weight 107 lb (49 kg)

Debbie Boostrom (born June 23, 1955, Peoria, Illinois, d. July 29, 2008) was an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its August 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli while she was living in Florida.[6] Boostrom subsequently married and relocated to Kansas. Following the end of the marriage she returned to Florida to design jewellery[8] and act in infomercials.[7] On July 29, 2008, she was found dead in her apartment of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.[7] She had reportedly been suffering from terminal breast cancer.[9]

September

For other people named Susan Smith, see Susan Smith (disambiguation).
Susan Smith
Personal details
Born (1959-01-14) January 14, 1959
Beloit, Wisconsin
Measurements Bust: 36"
Waist: 24"
Hips: 36"
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Weight 120 lb (54 kg; 8.6 st)

Susan M. Smith (born January 14, 1959 in Beloit, Wisconsin) is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its September 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus and Robert Scott Hooper.

Susan first appeared in Playboy in the February 1979 pictorial "The Girls of Las Vegas." She also "wrestled" Andy Kaufman for the "intergender championship of the world" for a February 1982 layout, and did occasional ring announcing in the World Wrestling Federation during the mid-1990s.

October

Kelly Tough
Personal details
Born (1961-12-16) December 16, 1961
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada[10]
Measurements Bust: 36[10]
Waist: 24
Hips: 36
Height 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)[10]
Weight 119 lb (54 kg)

Kelly Ann Tough (born December 16, 1961 in Vancouver, British Columbia)[10] is a Canadian model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli.[10]

November

Main article: Shannon Tweed
Shannon Tweed

Shannon Tweed at the 2nd Annual Night of 1000 Stars. Ritual Supper Club, Hollywood, California
Playboy Playmate of the Year
1982
Preceded by Terri Welles
Succeeded by Marianne Gravatte
Personal details
Born Shannon Lee Tweed
(1957-03-10) March 10, 1957
St. John's,
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada[11]
Measurements Bust: 36"B[11][12]
Waist: 25"
Hips: 36"
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[11]
Weight 128 lb (58 kg)

Shannon Lee Tweed (born 10 March 1957)[11] is a Canadian actress and model. One of the most successful actresses of mainstream erotica,[13] she is identified with the genre of the erotic thriller. Tweed currently lives with her husband Gene Simmons of Kiss and they have two children.

December

Patricia Farinelli
Personal details
Born (1960-03-18) March 18, 1960
Los Angeles, California, US[14]
Measurements Bust: 36[14]
Waist: 25
Hips: 36
Height 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m)[14]
Weight 115 lb (52 kg; 8.2 st)

Patricia "Patti" Farinelli (born March 18, 1960 in Los Angeles, California),[14] is an Italian-American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the December 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus.[14]

See also

References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Playmate data". Retrieved 27 December 2010.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Playmate data". Retrieved 2009-01-22.
  4. Notice of death
  5. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0814888/
  6. 1 2 3 4 "Playmate data". Retrieved 27 December 2010.
  7. 1 2 3 4 http://lifeinlegacy.com/display.php?weekof=2008-08-02#D9810
  8. "Playmate News". Playboy (Playboy) 55: 123–124. October 2008.
  9. http://daggy.name/cop/bkofdead/obits-bo.htm#BoostromDeborah
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 "Playmate listing". Retrieved March 15, 2009.
  11. 1 2 3 4 "Playmate data". Retrieved 27 December 2010.
  12. "That New Bird on Hugh Hefner's Arm Is a Falcon Crest Fledgling from Canada Named Shannon Tweed". Retrieved 18 July 2010.
  13. Green, Phillip. Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998: 170
  14. 1 2 3 4 5 "Playmate data". Retrieved 27 December 2010.
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