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Going back to 1964, ‘65, how did you make the transition from working at the club to being featured in the March 1965 issue? Who reached out to you?
The photographer Pompeo Posar, he came into the club while I was working. He came in one time and I said, “No, I can’t do that. It’s enough that I’m putting on this bunny costume.” I had a fight with my boyfriend at the time; the timing was right when Pompeo came in and I said, “Why not? That’ll give me enough money to move to New York.” At the time I was also runner-up for Ms. Chicago Land, did a few hair ads, and modeling before I took the picture. But they were saying to really make it big in the modeling business that you had to go to New York. So after I took the picture, I had the money to move to New York. I was living in Manhattan with my first husband when that picture came out in 1965.
Jennifer Jackson, the first Black Playmate of the Month, discussing the makings of her well-known March 1965 spread in Playboy and NBC’s short-lived drama series, “The Playboy Club”. [✖]
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Source: isitscary
First Black Playmate: Jennifer Jackson, 1965.
“Black is beautiful and it comes in all different shades. They recognized a black woman can be sexy too. At the time Playboy magazine was the mainstream of beauty starting with Marilyn Monroe…When I modeled there, they just wanted light-skinned black models. As I got married and had kids in the 70s they started auditioning dark skinned models. They still have light and dark. Now it’s recognized you have all colors and finally embracing that which I think is great. “
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