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List of Playboy Playmates of 1981

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The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1981. Playboy magazine names their Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year.

January

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Karen Price
Personal details
Born (1960-07-17) July 17, 1960 (age 64)
Pasadena, California[1]
Height5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)[1]

Karen Elaina Price (born July 17, 1960)[1] is an American model, stunt woman and television producer. She is sometimes credited as Karen Castoldi. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month in January 1981. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus.[1]

After she became a Playmate, Price started acting, but soon switched to performing stunts for over two dozen films, including Leonard Part 6 (1987), Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985), and The Golden Child (1986). After a hiatus, she began a new career as an associate producer of television programs such as Amazing Vacation Homes (2004) and Amazing Babies (2005).

Price made a cameo appearance of sorts in the early Mel Gibson film The Road Warrior – her centerfold is pasted onto a tailfin of Gyro Captain's Benson gyrocopter.

February

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Vicki Lasseter
Personal details
Born (1960-02-19) February 19, 1960 (age 64)
Iola, Kansas
Height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)

Vicki Lynn Lasseter (born February 19, 1960, in Iola, Kansas) is an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its February 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag.

March

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Kymberly Herrin
Personal details
Born(1957-10-02)October 2, 1957[3]
Santa Barbara County, California[3]
DiedOctober 28, 2022(2022-10-28) (aged 65)[2]
Height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[3]

Kymberly Ellen Herrin (October 2, 1957 – October 28, 2022) was an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its March 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag.[3] Herrin had several small roles in films of the 1980s, such as Ghostbusters and Romancing the Stone, as well as the ZZ Top video "Legs".

April

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Lorraine Michaels
Personal details
Born (1958-01-23) January 23, 1958 (age 66)
Canterbury, England
Height5 ft 3 in (1.60 m)

Lorraine Michaels (born January 23, 1958, in Canterbury, England) is an English model and actress. She was chosen as Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month in for the April 1981 issue.

May

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Gina Goldberg
Personal details
BornTiina Virenius
(1963-06-30) June 30, 1963 (age 61)
Turku, Finland
Height5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)

Gina Goldberg (born Tiina Virenius June 30, 1963 in Turku) is a Finnish model, actress and singer. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its May 1981 issue.

June

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Cathy Larmouth
Personal details
Born(1953-07-15)July 15, 1953
Torrance, California, United States[4]
DiedJanuary 4, 2007(2007-01-04) (aged 53)[4]
Height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[4]

Cathy Larmouth (July 15, 1953 – January 4, 2007[4]) was an American model who was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its June 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus.[4] A year after her centerfold, she appeared as a contestant on The Joker's Wild winning several games.

Larmouth died on January 4, 2007, of a heart attack at the age of 53, after a period of declining health.[5]

July

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Heidi Sorenson
Personal details
Born (1960-08-05) August 5, 1960 (age 64)
Vancouver, Canada
Height5 ft 7.5 in (1.71 m)

Heidi Sorenson (born in Vancouver, British Columbia on August 5, 1960) is a Canadian model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its July 1981 issue.

She was in the 1985 vampire horror film Fright Night as well as the 1985 comedy Spies Like Us and the 1987 comedy Roxanne.[6]

August

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Debbie Boostrom
Personal details
Born(1955-06-23)June 23, 1955[8]
Peoria, Illinois
DiedJuly 29, 2008(2008-07-29) (aged 53)[7]
Florida[7]
Height5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)[8]

Debbie Boostrom (born June 23, 1955, Peoria, Illinois, d. July 29, 2008) was an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its August 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli while she was living in Florida.[8] Boostrom subsequently married and relocated to Kansas. Following the end of the marriage she moved to Florida to design jewelry[9] and act in infomercials.[7] On July 29, 2008, she was found dead in her apartment of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.[7] She had reportedly been suffering from terminal breast cancer.[10]

September

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Susan Smith
Personal details
Born (1959-01-14) January 14, 1959 (age 65)
Beloit, Wisconsin
Height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)

Susan M. Smith (born January 14, 1959, in Beloit, Wisconsin) is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its September 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus and Robert Scott Hooper.

Susan first appeared in Playboy in the February 1979 pictorial "The Girls of Las Vegas." She also "wrestled" Andy Kaufman for the "intergender championship of the world" for a February 1982 layout, and did occasional ring announcing in the World Wrestling Federation during the mid-1990s.

October

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Kelly Tough
Personal details
Born (1961-12-16) December 16, 1961 (age 63)
Vancouver, Canada[11]
Height5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)[11]

Kelly Ann Tough (born December 16, 1961, in Vancouver, British Columbia)[11] is a Canadian model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli.[11]

November

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Shannon Tweed
Shannon Tweed at the 2nd Annual Night of 1000 Stars. Ritual Supper Club, Hollywood, California
Playboy Playmate of the Year
1982
Preceded byTerri Welles
Succeeded byMarianne Gravatte
Personal details
BornShannon Lee Tweed
(1957-03-10) March 10, 1957 (age 67)
St. John's,
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada[12]
Height5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[12]

Shannon Lee Tweed (born March 10, 1957)[12] is a Canadian actress and model. One of the most successful actresses of mainstream erotica,[13] she is identified with the genre of the erotic thriller. Tweed currently lives with her husband Gene Simmons of Kiss and they have two children.

December

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Patricia Farinelli
Personal details
Born (1960-03-18) March 18, 1960 (age 64)
Los Angeles, California[14]
Height5 ft 3 in (1.60 m)[14]

Patricia "Patti" Farinelli (born March 18, 1960, in Los Angeles, California),[14] is an Italian-American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the December 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus.[14]

See also

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References

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  2. ^ "Kymberly Herrin, Playboy Playmate From 'Ghostbusters', Dead at 65". Newsweek. November 16, 2022. Retrieved November 16, 2022.
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  4. ^ a b c d e "Playmate data". Retrieved January 22, 2009.
  5. ^ "Cathy Larmouth – R.I.P." Yahoo Groups. January 6, 2008. Archived from the original on October 30, 2008.
  6. ^ "Heidi Sorenson". IMDb.
  7. ^ a b c d "Week ending August 2, 2008". Life in Legacy. Archived from the original on January 31, 2014. Retrieved June 1, 2019.
  8. ^ a b c "Playmate data". Retrieved December 27, 2010.
  9. ^ "Playmate News". Playboy. 55. Playboy: 123–124. October 2008.
  10. ^ "Obits: "Bo" – "Bt"". Caskets On Parade. Archived from the original on April 26, 2015. Retrieved June 1, 2019.
  11. ^ a b c d "Playmate listing". Retrieved March 15, 2009.
  12. ^ a b c "Playmate data". Retrieved December 27, 2010.
  13. ^ Green, Phillip. Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998:170
  14. ^ a b c d "Playmate data". Retrieved December 27, 2010.