Celebrities who were wrong: The availability of scantily clad celebrities on the Internet has certainly cooled the decades-long trend of Playboy being the first place many teenage boys got their initial taste of celebrity nudity, but nonetheless, for a wide swath of women dating back toMarilyn Monroe’s pictorial in the very first issue, Playboy was hopefully a quick jolt to a career whether you were on the way up or way down.
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For those too young to remember, Hugh Hefner embodied the Playboy lifestyle, which appeared somewhat more fun and artistic than the visions of nudity found in other adult mags like Penthouse and Hustler. Somehow, this more “wholesome” image is what was sold to actresses, models and musicians who were all looking for a boost in their public awareness. Playboy has also featured athletes (Katarina Witt, Gabrielle Reece, Amanda Beard) who otherwise would never be seen nude and it introduced the world to a few women who would become household names like Pamela Anderson and Jenny McCarthy.
There are celebrities who undeniable got a boost from their Playboy appearance such as a pre-Basic Instinct Sharon Stone, but for every one of them, there are many more whose appearance did little to help their careers. It may have been the hope that their failing career could be reborn or that they could maintain the levels they were already at. It may have been to show the world a different side of them or simply for the money. Whatever their reasons, here is a list of women who didn’t get a bump in their career after baring it all in Playboy.
10. Shannen Doherty
First seen as a child on family TV shows like “Little House on the Prairie” and “Our House,” Doherty became a household name more for the off-screen accounts of her behavior on ‘Beverly Hills 90210’ where she played sweet Brenda Walsh. After being booted from the show, she first made a cameo in Playboy in March 1994 in a multi-celebrity pictorial, but was rewarded with the cover. Typical Lifetime TV movies and the semi-successful show ‘Charmed’ followed, but after a stretch of largely ignored projects, she returned to the men’s magazine pages with a 10-page layout in December 2003. It didn’t do much for her career, with a multi-episode cameo as Brenda Walsh in the ‘90210’ reboot in 2008 being one of the few major non-reality show gigs she landed. Sadly, she announced she had breast cancer in 2015.
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