Shy and modest? Not two words one would immediately associate with Mariel Hemingway, the grand daughter of prolific writer Ernest Hemingway and sister to Margaux Hemingway, who appeared to have no problem removing her clothes for the cameras.

But those are the words Mariel uses to describe herself when she talks about herself in relation to wearing a bikini on the beach. Hemingway states, ‘I won’t even wear a bikini on the beach. On TV I’m lit well and I can choose the angle. I can’t edit what you see at the beach.'’

Regardless of her feelings of modesty, Mariel has appeared nude in the movie the Star 80, in which she portrayed murdered Playboy model, Dorothy Stratten. Again, in Civil Wars, Mariel acts in a scene in which her character, divorce attorney Sydney Guilford, models for a photographer-artiste, ‘’it was pretty nerve-racking,'’ she reports. ‘’They said ‘Robe off,’ and the crew could see my face turn fuchsia.'’

Evidently, the experience was not too traumatic for the actress who, at the time was 31 years old, as she went on to agree to grace the cover of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy magazine in April 1982.

Mariel has stated she is no prude and in fact finds the American mentality to nudity on the TV baffling, saying, ‘’Sometimes we can say ‘God’ but we can’t say ‘Jesus.’ I don’t get the mentality of that. I still think that people should be more up in arms about the number of people who get shot on TV, not people taking their clothes off. Movies like Basic Instinct are out,  Demi Moore is naked on magazines. There’s Madonna looking like she’s doing kiddie porn on a magazine cover. To me, nudity is not news. I’ve turned on the TV in the middle of the day and seen more on Oprah.'’

The Like a Virgin singer may have cut the mustard with her wide eyed, blonde curled, sexy vixen look back in the 1980’s, but her lifestyle and reputation hasn’t stood the test of time when it comes to being one of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy models moving into the 2000’s.

Unlike celebrities who still command a firm following among Playboy magazine collectors, like Drew Barrymore, Pamela Anderson and even the now deceased Anna Nicole Smith, Madonna has not held her own in the world of models and sex icons when it comes to Hef’s models!

The Material Girl, who posed for Playboy magazine back in September 1985, at the height of her career, and was the last model to have a staple placed firmly in her naval, hasn’t had an encore performance with the famous men’s magazine and looks less like being recalled for a photos shoot as time passes by and her involvement with disreputable sportsmen and toy boys hit’s the worldwide tabloids.

The self confessed Queen of Pop is now seeing her former flaming sexual attributes dying with a good dousing of broken marriages, adulterous relationships and world tours more resembling an antiques road show than a sexy, pert, desirable young woman!

From Spice Girl to cover girl! That was what fate had in store for the English born red haired, vivacious, beauty, Geri Halliwell.

Being a Playboy Bunnygirl was truly a highlight in Geri’s career that brought her to the attention of the world’s media as more than just a singer and a rebel, but as a sex symbol.

Cloaked in a Union Jack flag, Geri re-enacted her appearance at the 1997 Brit Awards showing her well known feminist side with a typical girl power pose.

The opportunity to grace the cover of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy magazine came just one year prior to Geri leaving The Spice Girls following in-band differences and saw Geri’s profile lifted throughout the world as a representative for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). As a goodwill ambassador, Halliwell toured the Philippines on a fact-finding trip.

These days Geri is more a stay at home mum to her baby daughter, Bluebell Madonna, whom she named as a tribute to her singing idol, Madonna.