Not a lady who’s main ambition was to be a Playboy model but she made it to the cover of several of Hugh Hefner’s iconic men’s magazine and in many special editions, regardless.

Jessica Hahn originally came to the attention of the public as a church secretary, when in 1980, at just 21 years old, Jessica became the mistress of TV evangelist, Jim Bakker. Jessica insisted she was drugged and raped by the husband of Tammy Faye Bakker, but Bakker himself insisted that the sex was consensual.

But regardless of what happened between the two of them, it catapulted Hahn into the public eye where she quickly capitalized on the situation and grasped her 15 minutes of fame with both hands.

Jessica’s notoriety gained her the attention of Hefner who had the brunette appearing nude in several Playboy magazine pictorials, on Playboy videos and on the cover of Playboy magazine.

Hahn went on to appear in a variety of TV shows, including Married… with Children and later had a much publicized relationship with comedian Sam Kinison who commandeered her to appear in his music video for “Wild Thing” in 1988.

Jessica now lives in Beverly Hills, California.

With her well know quote in mind, “Scandal fame is short-term,” Jessica Hahn certainly made the most of her’s!

One of Playboy magazine’s most popular models stands nearly six feet tall, with platinum blonde hair and icy blue eyes and hails from Sweden. But the beautiful Victoria Silvstedt hasn’t let her career stop at modeling, she is also a radio and television hostess, a published singer and a former level skier destined for the Olympics had an injury not prevented at a time when she had become a world-class member of the Swedish National Ski Team, ranking as high as fourth among her future Olympian teammates in the Super-Giant Slalom.

Victoria’s first brush with glamour came in the form of a first runner-up in the Miss Sweden pageant . But being runner up didn’t hold her back as soon after that she won modeling contracts with Chanel, Christian Dior, Loris Azzaro, Givenchy, Valentino, and Giorgio Armani.

But it was Hugh Hefner’s men’s magazine, Playboy, that really brought Victoria to the attention of men everywhere when he signed her up for a photo shoot as a Playboy centerfold which led to her being the magazine’s Playmate of the Month in the December 1996 issue and then Victoria gained the title of Playmate of the Year in 1997.

But as she leaves Playboy behind her, Victoria is following her other ambitions having released an album called Girl On the Run, in 2001. Added to that, Victoria also took on the role of hosting The Late Show on Virgin Radio, and as a guest host on the TV show Eurotrash in the United Kingdom.

With acting being one of her career choices Victoria has also made appearances on the American TV shows Melrose Place and MTV’s The Real World.

Silvstedt broke many hearts in 2000 when she married the WCBS-TV, New York City, news anchor Chris Wragge in June of that year at Tuxedo Park Country Club in Tuxedo, New York.

Christie Taylor was unfortunately blessed with a name very similar to the wife of actor Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor and to another glamour model who appears in Penthouse, Crisiti Taylor.

But none of that has restricted her fans managing to locate her in the glossy pages of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy magazine.

Born in 1976 in Seattle, Washington, Christie’s first passion was acting and it was that which saw her achieving recognition as a model when she appeared in the musical Stop the World I Want to Get Off, when glamour photographer Stephen Wayda saw her dancing on stage.

Christie found fame appearing in several Playboy Special Editions between 1998 and 2001 but prior to that Christie had appeared to she had made her first pictorial in Playboy’s Women of Atlanta in 1996

Christie’s enormously well received appearances as a Playboy model saw her being selected by readers as the “Special Editions Model of the Year” for 1999. Taylor was named Cyber Girl of the Week for the fourth week of March 2001 and Cyber Girl of the Month for July 2000.

Playboy’s Wet & Wild April 1998.

April 1998. Playboy’s Book of Lingerie Vol. 61 May 1998

Vol. 61 May 1998 Playboy’s Book of Lingerie Vol. 62 July 1998

Vol. 62 July 1998 Playboy’s Girlfriends July 1998 - pages 38-41.

July 1998 - pages 38-41. Playboy’s Book of Lingerie Vol. 63 September 1998 - cover girl

Vol. 63 September 1998 - cover girlPlayboy’s Book of Lingerie Vol. 65 January 1999

Vol. 65 January 1999 Playboy’s Book of Lingerie Vol. 68 July 1999 - front cover

Vol. 68 July 1999 - front coverPlayboy’s Girlfriends September 1999

September 1999 Playboy’s Voluptuous Vixens Vol. 3 October 1999.

Vol. 3 October 1999. Playboy’s Book of Lingerie Vol. 71 January 2000

Vol. 71 January 2000 Playboy’s Book of Lingerie Vol. 74 July 2000 .

Vol. 74 July 2000 . Playboy’s Nudes December 2000.

December 2000. Playboy’s College Girls October 2002.

October 2002. Playboy’s Sexy 100 February 2003.

February 2003.

There’s a story behind every Playboy model’s rise to fame in the glossy pages of Hugh Hefner’s iconic men’s magazine Playboy, and Amy Sue Cooper is no different.

Born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1983, Amy came to Playboy through an introduction from a college conference talent search that landed her in the pages of Playboy magazine’s Girls of the Big 12 issue in 2002.

Once Amy had gained some modeling status through that particular issue, she continued to grace the pages, and covers, of several Playboy magazines, including winning the title of Cyber Girl of the Year 2005 as well as being the cover girl for Playboy’s Nudes 2005.

But Amy’s interests don’t just lie in the modeling industry. As a celebrity she has in recent years made attempts to introduce her fans to the issues of climate change and the preservation of our planet earth by highlighting the lesser-known companies who research these issues such as like Pacific Ethanol, an alternative energy firm that she endorses in her capacity as a self-described ‘tree hugger’.

But its still Amy’s long dark hair, slim figure and 34,24,34 statistics that draw the most attention to her and her career as a Playboy model.

 It wasn’t a life long ambition for the part Irish, part Polish and part Italian beauty to be a Playboy model, but the opportunity came her way and she grabbed it with both hands.

Jennifer Walcott was an Ohio born girl who’s closest brush with fame came as a cheerleader at school and in dance classes out of school.

Jennifer’s bigger ambition was to achieve a good education when she graduated from Lowellville High School, Ohio and then continued her studies while living in Los Angeles, at Santa Monica College.

During her time in Los Angeles the modeling bug bit Jennifer and she decided in 2001, at the age of 24, when she attended several Playboy parties that it was a role she could achieve and as she was offered a shoot in mid 2001.

Obviously seeing something special in the young, leggy brunette, Hugh Hefner’s Playboy magazine chose Jennifer as the Playmate of the Month for August 2001 and later appeared on th covers of Playboy Lingerie and Playboy’s Nude Playmate, after which she launched her own website, and appeared in many Playboy videos. She was chosen by Carmen Electra to model for her celebrity guest photographer photo shoot on playboy.com.

Not contend to rest her laurels purely in modeling, in 2005, Jennifer appeared in American Pie: Band Camp, in the role of Caitlin, the movie was a spin off of the American Pie movie and went straight to video. Jennifer’s movie career also includes her role as a stripper in Toxic. and an appearance on television in MTV Spring Break, Wild On and Weakest Link.