__NOTOC__ The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1988. ''

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'' magazine names its Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year.

January

Kimberley Conrad (born August 6, 1962) is an American

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and actress. She was chosen as ''

''s Playmate of the Month in January, 1988 and became

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1989. Conrad was born in Alabama and raised in Nevada and British Columbia. She is most known for marrying ''Playboy'' founder Hugh Hefner in 1989, an event which sparked worldwide media attention. The comic strip ''

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'' referred to the event as the belated end of the 1970s. The Hefners had two sons together: Marston Glenn Hefner (shares birthday with his father: April 9, 1990) and Cooper Bradford Hefner (September 4, 1991). After nine years of marriage, Conrad and Hefner separated although remained married. Hugh Hefner was quoted, "I would've been happy to divorce her when we separated, but she wanted to remain married for our boys." Conrad then moved into a house next door to the

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. After an 11-year separation, Hefner filed for divorce stating irreconcilable differences in September 2009 after his youngest child turned 18. Conrad is a

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and has worked with PETA.

February

Kari Kennell Whitman (born June 21, 1964) is an American

and actress. She was chosen as

's Playmate of the Month in February, 1988. She also did mainstream acting as Kari Whitman. In March 2007, Whitman starred in a

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series, "Designer To The Stars: Kari Whitman".

March

Susie Diane Owens (born May 28, 1956) is an American

and actress. She was chosen as ''

''s Playmate of the Month for March 1988. In the May 1993 issue, she was used as the model for the comic book heroine "Flaxen", and also made public appearances in costume, but the character failed to find an audience.

April

Eloise Broady(born May 13, 1957) is an American

and actress. She was chosen as

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for April 1988. She is sometimes credited as: Eloise Dejoria, Eloise Schmitt, Elois DeJoria or Eloise DeJoria. She is married to

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. Eloise appeared in the music video for Kiss' " Reason to Live".

May

Diana Lee or Diana Lee-Hsu (born May 11, 1961) is an American

and actress. She was chosen as

's Playmate of the Month for May 1988. Her

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was photographed by Stephen Wayda and

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. As an actress, she performed in several Playboy videos and had an appearance in the 1989

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''. In the film, Lee played Loti, a Hong Kong narcotic agent. She also is prominently featured in the film's title sequence.

June

Emily Arth (born October 18, 1960, in

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) is an American

and actress. She was chosen as ''

's'' Playmate of the Month for June, 1988. Afterwards, under her married name of Emily Feinberg, she worked for the

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's executive assistant. She left the company in 1991 and later testified against McMahon in his steroid distribution trial in 1994.

July

Terri Lynn Doss (born September 4, 1965) is an American

and actress. She was chosen as ''

''s Playmate of the Month for its July 1988 issue.

August

Helle Michaelsen (born 2 November 1968 in

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) is a

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and actress. She was ''

''s Playmate of the Month for August 1988 and has appeared in numerous ''Playboy'' videos.

September

Laura Richmond (born August 23, 1966, in

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) is an American

and actress. She was chosen as ''

''s Playmate of the Month for September, 1988 and has appeared in some ''Playboy'' videos. She also portrayed

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on the cover of the November 1988 issue.

October

Shannon Long (born 11 February 1969 in

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, Australia) is an Australian

and actress. She was chosen as ''

'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1988 issue. Soon after her 16th birthday she moved to Sydney, took up modeling and became Playmate in the Australian edition of ''Playboy'' in September 1985. Long did an encore pictorial in 1986, and represented Australia in the Playboy International Pageant in 1988. She was the first Australian to appear as a Playmate in the U.S. edition. Her American success led to a second centerfold in the Australian edition in December 1988; she became the local "Playmate of the Year" in 1989 and appeared in another pictorial in 1992. She toured the US in the early 1990s promoting Australian beer.

November

Maria Pia Agravante Reyes (born July 3, 1964, in

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) is a

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and actress. She was the November 1988 ''

'' Playmate of the Month. Reyes earned a

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in advertising from Penn State University in 1984, where she also played on the

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team. Reyes was once married to convicted con artist, Christophe Rocancourt, with whom she has a son, Zeus. On April 27, 2001, she and Rocancourt were arrested in

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, Canada, on charges of defrauding an elderly couple.

December

Katariina Souri (born 27 October 1968 as Minna Katariina "Kata" Kärkkäinen) is a

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author, artist and columnist, who first gained fame as a

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and actress. She was chosen as ''

's'' Playmate of the Month for December, 1988. After her modelling career, she worked as a writer in her native country, first as a television

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and then as an author.

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