There are those Playboy models who’s careers begin with Playboy, such as Aubrey O’Day who appears on the cover of Playboy magazine march 2009, then there are those Playboy models who’s careers end with Playboy such as Michelle Manhunt who was the army captain who appeared on the cover, and in the pictorial for February 2006 Playboy magazine, and then there are those Playboy models who are chosen for their high profile careers that just go from strength to strength. That’s certainly the case with the beautiful Uptown Girl, Christie Brinkley.

Christie’s glamour career began back in 1973 when she was spotted by American photographer Errol Sawyer in a post office in Paris. He took her first modeling pictures and introduced her to the Elite Model Management in Paris. Brinkley stated later: “I was basically a surfer girl from California. I never looked like a model’.

By 1983 the leggy blonde had met the man she was to call her second husband, Billy Joel. The two married in 1985 but sadly divorced but not before having produced two children.

It was during this period of her life that Brinkley broke into movies with an appearance in the comedy National Lampoon’s Vacation as “The girl in the red Ferrari” opposite Chevy Chase; she reprised that role in the 1997 sequel Vegas Vacation.

Along with movies came television roles. Brinkley hosted Celebrity Weddings InStyle, the highest rated special in Lifetime’s history, and her appearance on NBC’s Mad About You was the broadcaster’s highest rated half-hour episode since the finale of The Cosby Show. Brinkley can now be seen promoting home fitness equipment sold on cable TV infomercials.

Australian born ‘The Body’ Elle MacPherson is one of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy bunny girls who has remained constantly beautiful, graceful and classy throughout both her modeling and acting career.

It was 1994 that saw Elle not only making her acting debut with Hugh Grant in Sirens, but appearing on cover of Hef’s May 1994 issue of Playboy magazine.

From then, Elle has continued to grace the cover of many magazines, appear in several movies with such actors as George Clooney, Sam Neill, Anthony Hopkins, Barbara Streisand and Portia de Rossi.

Becoming one of the first Supermodels, as coined by the 1980’s description, along with Claudia Schiffer, Christy Turlington Cindy Crawford, Kate Moss, Linda Evangelista, Christie Brinkley and Naomi Campbell, Elle has enjoyed a long and successful career in the public eye not only as a model and actress but also as a restauranteur and a business woman with her own line of intimate apparel and cosmetics.

In March 2009 MacPherson looked dazzling in a green and gold eveing gown as she walked the red carpet before picking up an award at the Women’s World Awards in Vienna. As reported by the UK’s Daily Mail newspaper, ‘The 44-year-old, who is 6ft tall, clearly saw no need for high heels, teaming the dress instead with a pair of flip flops. Her award was for World Career. As well as huge success in modelling, which earned her the nickname The Body, Elle has founded a number of business ventures.