The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1981. Playboy magazine names their Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year.
| Karen Price | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 17, 1960 Pasadena, California[1] |
| Measurements | Bust: 38[1] Waist: 26 Hips: 37 |
| Height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)[1] |
| Weight | 123 lb (56 kg; 8.8 st) |
Karen Elaine Price (born July 17, 1960)[1] is an American model, stunt woman and television producer. She is sometimes credited as Karen Castoldi. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month in January 1981. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus.[1]
After she became a Playmate, Price started acting, but soon switched to performing stunts for over two dozen movies including Leonard Part 6 (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.
| Vicki Lasseter | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 19, 1960 Iola, Kansas |
| Measurements | Bust: 36" Waist: 23" Hips: 34" |
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) |
| Weight | 120 lb (54 kg) |
Vicki Lynn Lasseter (born February 19, 1960 in Iola, Kansas) is an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its February 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag.
| Kymberly Herrin | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 2, 1957 Santa Barbara County, California[2] |
| Measurements | Bust: 36"[2] Waist: 24" Hips: 36" |
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[2] |
| Weight | 124 lb (56 kg) |
Kymberly Ellen Herrin (born October 2, 1957)[2] is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its March 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag.[2] Herrin had several small roles in films of the 1980s, as well as the ZZ Top video "Legs".
| Lorraine Michaels | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 23, 1958 Canterbury, England |
| Measurements | Bust: 35" Waist: 22" Hips: 34" |
| Height | 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m) |
| Weight | 103 lb (47 kg; 7.4 st) |
Lorraine Michaels (born January 23, 1958 in Canterbury, England) is an Irish-American model and actress. She was chosen as Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month in for the April 1981 issue.
| Gina Goldberg | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | Tiina Virenius 30 June 1963 Turku, Finland |
| Measurements | Bust: 36" Waist: 24" Hips: 36" |
| Height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) |
| Weight | 105 lb (48 kg) |
Gina Goldberg (born Tiina Virenius 30 June 1963 in Turku) is a Finnish model, actress and singer. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its May 1981 issue.
| Cathy Larmouth | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 15, 1953 Torrance, California, United States[3] |
| Died | January 4, 2007 (aged 53)[3] |
| Measurements | Bust: 38"[3] Waist: 26" Hips: 37" |
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[3] |
| Weight | 127 lb (58 kg) |
Cathy Larmouth (July 15, 1953 – January 4, 2007[3]) was an American model who was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its June 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus.[3]
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.[4]
| Heidi Sorenson | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Measurements | Bust: 36 Waist: 24 Hips: 34 |
| Height | 5 ft 7.5 in (1.71 m) |
| Weight | 120 lb (54 kg) |
Heidi Sorenson (born in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its July 1981 issue.
She was in the 1985 vampire horror film Fright Night as well as the 1985 comedy "Spies Like Us" with Chevy Chase and Dan Akroyd[5].
| Debbie Boostrom | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | June 23, 1955[8] Peoria, Illinois |
| Died | July 29, 2008 (aged 53)[6] Florida[7] |
| Measurements | Bust: 37.5"[8] Waist: 23" Hips: 34" |
| Height | 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)[8] |
| Weight | 107 lb (49 kg) |
Debbie Boostrom (b. June 23, 1955, Peoria, Illinois, d. July 29, 2008) was an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its August 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli while she was living in Florida.[8] Boostrom subsequently married and relocated to Kansas. Following the end of the marriage she returned to Florida to design jewelery[9] and act in infomercials.[10] On July 29, 2008, she was found dead in her apartment of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.[11] She had reportedly been suffering from terminal breast cancer.[12]
| Susan Smith | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 14, 1959 Beloit, Wisconsin |
| Measurements | Bust: 36" Waist: 24" Hips: 36" |
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) |
| Weight | 120 lb (54 kg; 8.6 st) |
Susan M. Smith (born January 14, 1959 in Beloit, Wisconsin) is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month 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.
| Kelly Tough | |
|---|---|
| Playboy centerfold appearance | |
| October 1981 | |
| Preceded by | Susan Smith |
| Succeeded by | Shannon Tweed |
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 16, 1961 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada[13] |
| Measurements | Bust: 36[13] Waist: 24 Hips: 36 |
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)[13] |
| Weight | 119 lb (54 kg) |
Kelly Ann Tough (born December 16, 1961 in Vancouver, British Columbia)[13] is a Canadian model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli.[13]
| Shannon Tweed | |
|---|---|
Shannon Tweed at the 2nd Annual Night of 1000 Stars. Ritual Supper Club, Hollywood, California |
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| Playmate of the Year | |
| 1982 | |
| Preceded by | Terri Welles |
| Succeeded by | Marianne Gravatte |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Shannon Lee Tweed 10 March 1957 St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada[14] |
| Measurements | Bust: 36"B[14][15] Waist: 25" Hips: 36" |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[14] |
| Weight | 128 pounds (58 kg) |
Shannon Lee Tweed (born 10 March 1957)[14] is a Canadian actress and model. One of the most successful actresses of mainstream erotica,[16] she is identified with the genre of the erotic thriller. Tweed currently lives with her lifetime partner Gene Simmons of Kiss and they have two children.
| Patricia Farinelli | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 18, 1960 Los Angeles, California, US[17] |
| Measurements | Bust: 36[17] Waist: 25 Hips: 36 |
| Height | 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m)[17] |
| Weight | 115 lb (52 kg; 8.2 st) |
Patricia "Patti" Farinelli (born March 18, 1960 in Los Angeles, California),[17] is an Italian-American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the December 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus.[17]
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