Above her is the caption “we’ll take it from here.”īeginning as a feminist response to Playboy in 1973, in between the male centerfold and other naked men, Playgirl tackled important issues such as abortion and equal rights, while contributors included Gloria Steinem, Maya Angelou and Joyce Carol Oates, making it a dominant voice in the women’s movement and the sexual revolution. This time, the cover star is not a man, but a pregnant Chloë Sevigny, expertly shot by Mario Sorrenti against a backdrop of lush mint green hues and not a plastic tree in sight.
Playgirl Magazine is relaunching in print on Monday, looking very different from its last issue in 2015 when it featured “campus hunks of Fort Lauderdale” - four men flexing in their swimming trunks in between several plastic-looking trees and what appears to be a hot tub filled with an odd shade of green water. Taking his clothes off wasn’t any big deal for him, he said.While many magazines, including Playboy, are going out of print, one is coming back - but not as we last knew it. Knappenberger said she plans to go with him on the tour. In the next two weeks, he will pose for an exercise equipment ad and a calendar, he said. He will go on a tour to sign autographs and promote his photogenic pecs, and be paid $500 for each tour stop, he said. He said he received $1,000 for the photo shoot and won a Playgirl contract. He did, just as he dutifully does everything, she said.
His girlfriend, Charis Knappenberger, said she heard about the contest from her boss and told Bales to enter. But he said he had never posed nude.Īnd it wasn’t his idea to enter the contest. She agreed that he was Playgirl material.”īales said he “was in shock for like the whole day” after winning.īales is a bodybuilder who works out two hours a day an has entered bodybuilding contests. Nussbaum said that “if he wasn’t good-looking, she wouldn’t have chosen him. “He got a lot of response from the crowd.” But Playgirl Editor-in-Chief Charmian Carl was also there to give her approval. Twelve weekly winners advanced to last weekend’s contest, and Bales was chosen by the audience.
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