January 1983 edition of Playboy magazine. Landers looked back on her experience posing for late publisher Hugh Hefner’s pictorial and why she opted not to go nude for the memorable cover.She opened up to Fox News about the photo shoot and recalled meeting Hefner “briefly,” but not during the actual shoot itself.”I remember they approached us [during the shoot] and asked us to do the cover and a nine-page [spread].
They were going to pay us, and they wanted nudity, which was pretty much the standard for the magazine,” the “Chorus Line” star said.
She continued, speaking of her and Judy: “We were not up for that. Instead, we opted for no nudity, no money and photo approval.
I think we ended up being in a really small and elite group of women who appeared in the magazine who didn’t go nude, like Dolly Parton, Barbra Streisand and Bernadette Peters.”A post shared by Audrey Landers (@audreylandersofficial)“We originally thought at the time that people would see us in a more mature role [by appearing in Playboy clothed].
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