Fit, Biological Female to Grace Playboy’s Centerfold!
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Playboy Returns to Fit Females, Nudity, After Woke Rebrand Fail
Alana Mastrangelo
Playboy is reportedly returning to its roots after going through a failed woke rebrand that included pop star Lizzo on a centerfold, a transgender Playmate, and a ban on nudity.
After a five-year hiatus, the magazine was relaunched this month with a new issue including a fully nude centerfold featuring Guess model Gillian Nation — a fit, biological female — who has been crowned Playboy‘s 2025 Playmate of the Year, according to a report by Daily Mail.
The move to revert back to its original content comes after the magazine announced in 2017 — just one month after the death of Playboy‘s founder Hugh Hefner — that French model Ines Rau would be its first transgender Playmate.
“It’s the right thing to do. We’re at a moment where gender roles are evolving,” Hefner’s then-26-year-old son Cooper said at the time of the decision to feature men in Playboy.
Notably, 2017 was also dominated by the #MeToo movement, followed by woke “cancel culture” running rampant.
Cooper ended up leaving the company in 2019, after which an editorial team of two women and a gay man took over with a mission to make Playboy more progressive, Daily Mail noted.
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