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.