Another Texan beauty with the perfect statistics of 36, 23, 33, and standing 5 ft 7 ins tall, is Echo Johnson who has frequently graced both the pages and the cover of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy magazine.

Echo grew up in Austin, Texas, but spent time in Miami Beach, Florida during her rise to the top in the world of modeling and especially as a Playboy model, which she attributes to her mother’s support and encouragement.

Not only is Echo a Playboy model having won the accolade of being Playboy’s Miss January 1993, she is also a savvy business woman who owns a company that throws major parties and events.

Echo made a big impression on the top dogs at Playboy as she was also engaged to appear on several Playboy videos as well as on its glossy magazine pages.

Echo lists among her hobbies, wakeboarding, snowboarding, traveling, learning and anything new that she can experience.

Now there’s a thing, a Canadian born Playboy model beauty, now who else springs to mind in that category, oh yes, Pamela Anderson!

And the equally as beautiful, feminine and sexy April Morgan has the title of being Canadian having been born in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. It was there at the age of 16 that was discovered by the Modeling Association of Canada and was soon bestowed with the title, Canadian Female Model of the Year.

After that the world became her oyster as she made modeling her the main career interest even while attending high school.

By 1997 April represented Sweden at The Miss Hawaiian Tropic International Finals and the following year, April won the title of Miss Hawaiian Tropic Canada 1998 and represented Canada at the International Finals held in Las Vegas where she finished in the top ten.

It wasn’t long before April drew the attention of Hugh Hefner when she was scouted by Playboy Magazine and selected to appear on the cover of the special March1998 edition entitled “College Girls” which was accompanied by as a visit to the Playboy mansion in Beverly Hills, California.

April also developed an acting career with appearances in numerous television shows such as PSI Factor, Code Name Eternity and Total Recall 2070, two ABC Movie of the Week specials including “The Marriage Fool” with Walter Matthau, Carrol Burnett and John Stamos and “A Tale of Two Bunnies” which featured April in a supporting role, playing the character of “Nancy”.

April maintains her connections with her homeland, Canada where she has worked on several movie projects such as the independent Canadian film, “Name of the Rose” as well as Hollywood blockbusters such as “Superstar” with Molly Shannon and Will Farrell and the Oscar winning picture “Chicago”. It is in Toronto that April can be seen on the ice as a speedy left winger for a Toronto based hockey team featuring various local entertainers.

April continues to model all over the world and plans to continue her acting career in both the United States and Canada.

She currently resides in Toronto, Canada.

Vanna White isn’t your run of the mill Playboy model! Vanna came to Playboy via a TV broadcast that caught the imagination of both viewers and producers alike. During the first TV airing of the show, The Price is Right, Vanna was one of the first 4 contestants to reply to the call, ‘Come on Down’ in June 1980. Although Vanna wasn’t chosen to take part in that particular show, she was caught on film running back to her seat and the footage was to be shown on several occasions after that.

The footage made the airways on The Price Is Right 25th Anniversary Special in August 1996 and also would be featured on the special broadcast Game Show Moments Gone Bananas.

With that morsel of ‘celebrity’ to her credit, two years later Vanna auditioned for the sought after position of ‘letter-turner’ on The Wheel of Fortune and won the attention of Merv griffin who selected her from 2 other finalists and she filled the shoes left vacant by Susan Stafford until the show ended in 1991.

But it wasn’t just the attention of Merv that brought big changes in Vanna’s life. In 1987 Hugh Hefner made Vanna White the subject of a special edition Playboy magazine which had a total of 8- pages of photos of Vanna.

Ten years later, Vanna was invited back to Playboy where she once again became a Playboy model gracing the cover of Hugh’s May 1997 issue of his men’s magazine.

Fame continued to follow Vanna as she White also has made cameo appearances on television shows such as Married… with Children, The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, 227 and Full House, movies such as Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult, and served as guest timekeeper for WrestleMania IV. In 1992, the Guinness Book of World Records recognized White as “television’s most frequent clapper.” On April 20, 2006, she was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Its quite a number to grace any Playboy model’s resume, 319! That’s the number of Playboy Special Edition appearances the stunning Alley Baggett has made in the pages of Hugh Hefner’s famous men’s magazine, Playboy.

Alley began her modeling career in New York City when she was approached by a photographer who could see the potential in the petite brunette as a glamour model.

After being turned down by several New York modeling agencies, Alley agreed to a shoot with the photographer and she began to find her confidence in front of the camera. With her new found experience and confidence Alley attended a casting for Playboy where she met the Playboy producer who would change the direction of her modeling career.

Since then Alley has been on many covers of Playboy, with the first ever being in May 1995.

In 2005, Alley appeared in 3 covers as a Playboy model with one of them being the 100th issue of Playboy’s Book of Lingerie, a Playboy special issue that has seen Alley gracing the cover no less than nine times.

Alley was crowned the Playboy’s Book of Lingerie Model of the Year for 1998 and for 2000. One of Alley’s most sought after issues is Playboy’s Vixens April 2005, on a cover which sees her voluptuously sucking her way through a strawberry!

Yet another beauty from the pages of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy magazine is the Texas born Jennifer Rovero who is guaranteed to get the male population’s pulses racing as they flip through the pages of Playboy and feast their eyes on their Playboy model.

Jennifer has appeared on the cover of several Playboy magazines including the Wet & Wild issue for the Millennium, 2000 and before that the 1999 October issue of the regular monthly Playboy magazine where she poses as Girls of the PAC 10. She held the accolade of being chosen as Playboy’s Playmate of the Month in July 1999 when she appeared as the centerfold spread in a shoot that was taken in California and contained 20-pictures. Rovero had no objections to nudity.

Jennifer was born in Austin, Texas and was entering beauty contests from and early age when she participated in, and won, the 1998 Miss Fiesta Playera pageant in Jacksonville Beach in Florida. She then built up her confidence and entered the in Hawaiian Tropic swimsuit contests around the country including Las Vegas which is when she met the photographer who would finally set her on the path to Playboy model stardom.

Miss Rovero is a close friend of Paris Hilton and now lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children where she has taken acting lessons which have helped her in her to become a Playboy model appearing in Hef’s famous Playboy’s video collection.