Years earlier than The Ladies Subsequent Door made Holly Madison a star, Playboy had one other actuality present that adopted the model’s seek for a brand new mannequin — and one contestant is opening up about her time on the Fox particular.
“Playboy was not my dream,” Shallan Meiers remembers in Us Weekly‘s unique clip from season 2 of Secrets and techniques of Playboy, premiering Monday, July 10, on A+E.
Meiers was working as a waitress at Spago in Las Vegas when a scout from Playboy approached her and requested whether or not her breasts had been actual. “My face simply appeared like this,” Meiers defined earlier than miming an expression of shock. “I let her know I used to be solely 20, so she informed me I ought to discuss to my mother.”
Earlier than her dialog with the scout, Meiers had “by no means even seen” a difficulty of Playboy, so her mom suggested her to flip by means of a duplicate and see if she felt “comfy” after wanting on the images.
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“I bear in mind wanting on the Playboy and pondering, ‘Wow, these ladies are beautiful,’” Meiers informed the digital camera. “I believed there was no means they might make me appear like these women as a result of these women — they only don’t look actual.”
Meiers’ curiosity was piqued after wanting on the journal, however she was nonetheless a bit apprehensive concerning the thought of posing nude. “I knew no matter [the scout was offering] was a giant alternative, it’s simply whether or not or not I may very well be comfy sufficient to undergo with it,” she recalled. “What I informed my mother is, ‘I don’t know if I’m gonna be capable of get bare.’ She goes, ‘Properly, there’s just one option to discover out.’”
On the time, Meiers was “extremely shy,” to the purpose that she felt “uncomfortable” even strolling round in her bathing swimsuit. “I used to be scared, however uninterested in being scared,” she stated, including that she finally stated sure as a result of she was afraid of getting regrets sooner or later.
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Meiers finally appeared on the Fox competitors present The Lady Subsequent Door: The Seek for a Playboy Centerfold, which aired in 2002. She was one in all seven semifinalists however misplaced to Lauren Anderson, who was Playmate of the Month in July of that yr.
Anderson can also be set to look in season 2 of Secrets and techniques of Playboy, which is able to discover the aftermath of a number of ladies’s associations with the model. Season 1, which featured interviews with Madison, 43, and Bridget Marquardt, aired final yr.
Madison later stated that it was troublesome for her to look at the docuseries after sharing her expertise with its creators. “I watched all of them besides episode two. I don’t wish to watch myself speak about my trauma once more,” she recalled throughout an August 2022 episode of her “Ladies Subsequent Degree” podcast. “I can’t take it. However each different episode, I watched — and it got here out over the course of 12 weeks. I had nightmares after I watched them. I had a nightmare I used to be again on the mansion each single night time after Secrets and techniques of Playboy.”
Secrets and techniques of Playboy season 2 premieres on A+E Monday, July 10, at 9 p.m. ET.
