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 have 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 speak to my mother.”
Earlier than her dialog with the scout, Meiers had “by no means even seen” a problem of Playboy, so her mom suggested her to flip via a replica and see if she felt “snug” after trying on the photographs.
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“I keep in mind trying on the Playboy and pondering, ‘Wow, these ladies are attractive,’” Meiers informed the digicam. “I assumed there was no means they may make me appear like these women as a result of these women — they only don’t look actual.”
Meiers’ curiosity was piqued after trying on the journal, however she was nonetheless a bit apprehensive in regards to 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 might be snug sufficient to undergo with it,” she recalled. “What I informed my mother is, ‘I don’t know if I’m gonna have the ability to get bare.’ She goes, ‘Effectively, there’s just one strategy 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 ultimately stated sure as a result of she was afraid of getting regrets sooner or later.
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Meiers in the end 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 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 tough 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 need 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 evening 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.
