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each month throughout the year.

January

Karen Elaina Price (born July 17, 1960) is an American model,

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and television producer. She is sometimes credited as Karen Castoldi. She was '' Playboy'' magazine's

in January 1981. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus. After she became a Playmate, Price started acting, but soon switched to performing

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s for over two dozen films, including ''

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'' (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

Vicki Lynn Lasseter (born February 19, 1960, in Iola, Kansas) is an American model. She was '' Playboy'' magazine's

for its February 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by

Arny Freytag Arny Freytag (born April 12, 1950) is an American photographer who specializes in glamour photography. He began working for ''Playboy'' magazine in 1976 and at one time was one of only two photographers who produced the ''Playboy'' centerfold pho ...

March

Kymberly Ellen Herrin (October 2, 1957 – October 28, 2022) was an American model and actress. She was '' Playboy'' magazine's

for its March 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by

. 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

Lorraine Michaels (born January 23, 1958, in

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) is an English model and actress. She was chosen as '' Playboy'' magazine's

in for the April 1981 issue.

May

Gina Goldberg (born Tiina Virenius June 30, 1963 in Turku) is a Finnish model, actress and singer. She was '' Playboy'' magazine's

for its May 1981 issue.

June

Cathy Larmouth (July 15, 1953 – January 4, 2007) was an American model who was '' Playboy'' magazine's

for its June 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus. 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. She was survived by two daughters.

July

Heidi Sorenson (born in Vancouver, British Columbia on August 5, 1960) is a Canadian model and actress. She was '' Playboy'' magazine's

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.

August

Debbie Boostrom (born June 23, 1955,

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, d. July 29, 2008) was an American model. She was '' Playboy'' magazine's

for its August 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli while she was living in Florida. Boostrom subsequently married and relocated to Kansas. Following the end of the marriage she moved to Florida to design jewelry and act in infomercials. On July 29, 2008, she was found dead in her apartment of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. She had reportedly been suffering from terminal breast cancer.

September

Susan M. Smith (born January 14, 1959, in Beloit, Wisconsin) is an American model and actress. She was '' Playboy'' magazine's

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

Kelly Ann Tough (born December 16, 1961, in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian model and actress. She was '' Playboy'' magazine's

for its October 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli.

November

Shannon Lee Tweed (born March 10, 1957) is a Canadian actress and model. One of the most successful actresses of mainstream erotica,Green, Phillip. ''Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood''. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998:170 she is identified with the genre of the

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. Tweed currently lives with her husband

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of Kiss and they have two children.

December

Patricia "Patti" Farinelli (born March 18, 1960, in Los Angeles, California), is an Italian-American model and actress. She was '' Playboy'' magazine's

for the December 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus.

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