With a career that has followed more curves than her shapely figure, Bo Derek has now retired to the quiet life with the actor, John Corbett, who played Sarah Jessica Parker’s long suffering boyfriend Aden in Sex and the City.

But in her hey day Bo was the girl to be seen with having made the photograph of her run along the beach in the movie ‘10′, as famous as Ursula Andres’s beach character, Honey Ryder in the 1962 James Bond movie, Dr No.

Both John Derek, Bo’s husband at that time and Hugh Hefner both realised the potential of this Californian born beauty.

After Bo made her initial splash in the 1979 movie ‘10’, which saw her appearing alongside British actor, Dudley Moore, Bo made several appearances in a spate of fairly luke warm movies in the 1980’s such as Tarzan, The Ape Man, Bolero and Ghosts Cant Do It.

But her lack of acting skills was no restriction to her physical attraction when Hefner made her one of his 1980’s Playboy Bunnygirls, having Bo appear on the cover of at least 7 Playboy magazines.

Following the flop of Tarzan, The Ape Man, Bo posed on the cover of Playboy magazine on the September 1981 issue and in the same year she graced the cover of Playboy’s Leading Ladies 1981.

But it was her role as Jenny Hanley in ‘10’ that really caught the male populations attention and for which Hugh had Bo posing on the cover of his March 1980 Playboy magazine in a beach setting where she appeared on the cover wearing a bikini.

With no let up in the physical interest of Bo Derek, she went on to appear as the Bunnygirl on the covers of Playboy magazine, July 1984, Playboy’s Parody Winter 1984 and again on the cover of the  December 1994 Playboy.

Bo made the first of her many appearances in Playboy, starting with the March 1980 issue with her first pictorial being photographed by her then husband John Derek. The twelve page spread featured photos of Bo with her pet greyhound together jogging and sunbathing, as well as her sailing and swimming in the river, all nude.

In 2000 Bo was nominated as the “Worst Actress of the Century”. However, she subsequently made a respectable showing as Jamie Kennedy’s mom and Ryan O’Neal’s wife in Malibu’s Most Wanted (2003). In addition, she can be seen on TV in Fashion House playing one of the main characters, notorious fashion designer Maria Gianni. Derek was a judge at the 2006 Miss Universe pageant.