Working at Playgirl hadn't, as she'd feared, made her unhirable after all. (Playgirl has since resumed publishing quarterly and has an online presence that is more gay-oriented.)Īfter the magazine folded, Collins was quickly hired by another magazine. The magazine folded in August of 2008, and the whole staff was out of a job, including Collins, who had by then been promoted from associate editor to managing editor. In April, 1972, Cosmopolitan, with a circulation of 1.8 million, featured Burt Reynolds stretched out on a fur rug. Typical negotiations with the celebrities' handlers, Collins says, ended in, "Oh, he'll be in underwear," or "Oh, he'll show his butt but not his front." Playgirl was not the first womensoriented magazine to have male centerfolds. Still, that didn't guarantee they'd show the full monty for the camera. "There was a certain tier of celebrity that was interested in being in Playgirl for the exposure: reality TV stars, up and coming country singers maybe, certain lowbrow wrestlers." When it came to celebrities, "There was always this intense negotiation about how naked they would get," Collins explained. So if that meant posing as one of the (fully-clothed) females lounging by the pool in the "Campus Hunks" issue - instead of hiring models - would help meet budget, then that's what Collins did.Ī country-music themed issue had her "reaching out to a lot of B-list country singers and saying, 'Do you want to take your clothes off in Playgirl?'" Not every musician was flattered.
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