The Top 20 Most Beautiful Female Athletes Who Posed for Playboy

20. Leeann Tweeden

Leeann Tweeden is the News Anchor for McIntyre In The Morning on 790 KABC Radio in Los Angeles. She joins Host Doug McIntyre from 5-10am PST M-F. Previously, Tweeden co-hosted LA Today with Roggin & Tweeden on AM570 LA Sports Radio. As a social & political commentator, Leeann is frequently asked to appear on TV shows. Over the years, she has appeared as a regular on Hannity (Fox News), Dr. Drew (HLN), Red Eye (Fox News) and Good Day LA (Fox 11, KTTV).

Leeann also spent years modeling in Los Angeles before she auditioned for and beat out 30,000 other women for the ESPN workout show Fitness Beach. The program was the number one rated fitness show of its time according to the New York Times. Over the years, Leeann has been the focus of numerous magazine covers and articles that range from health and fitness, to lifestyle, to popular men’s magazines like Playboy Maxim, FHM and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

19. Amy Acuff

18. Katarina Witt

A remarkable athlete and fascinating person, Katarina Witt is considered to be one of the greatest figure skaters of all time. Her competitive record is truly impressive. The German figure skater won two Olympic gold medals, four World Championships and six consecutive European Championships. There are many great female figure skaters, but what makes Katarina special is the fact that she competed and won for many years. The entire globe was mesmerized by ‘Kati’, as Germany commonly called her.
As mentioned before, Katarina’s nude pictorial was the second ever sold-out issue of Playboy.

17. Anita Marks

Anita Marks played professional football for five years. She quarterbacked two women’s professional football teams: Florida Stingrays and Miami Fury. Anita was the Playboy Centerfold of the 2002 September edition. According to Anita’s declarations, the reason why she accepted Playboy’s offer was because she wanted to show there is a Women’s Professional Football League and that, yes, “some of the women who play in the league may be appealing to those who read Playboy”. She was trying to demonstrate that it is okay to look attractive, sensual and still play football.

16. Ashley Harkleroad

Bounced out of Tournoi de Roland-Garros by Serena Williams, American tennis player Ashley Harkleroad claimed a more glamorous coup by appearing on the pages of Playboy, the issue of August 2008. She was the first professional tennis player to appear in Playboy. After turning to professional tennis in 2000, Ashley reached a career-high ranking of No. 39 in 2003. She didn’t win any renowned international tennis tournament, but it seems that her beauty greatly compensated the lack of career success.

15. Mia St. John

Mia Rosales St. John is considered to be the hottest woman in boxing. Her career is pretty impressive, even if she started boxing late. Mia won in 2005 the International Females Boxers Association Lightweight World Title and the IBA Continental Lightweight Title. She became at the age of 40 the WBC International Female Welterweight Champion. Mia’s eleven page boxing themed pictorial was released by Playboy on November 1999.

14. Chyna

Joanie Laurer was the very antithesis of the sort of 'Divas' WWE would later seek with explicit intent to feature in titillating scenarios. A muscle-bound Amazonian trained under the tutelage of Killer Kowalski, 'Chyna' was unlike any woman previously seen in the company, and one who could realistically stand on par with the men. Yet despite being cast from such a unique mould - and with the aid of extensive cosmetic surgery - she surprisingly became one of the industry's prototypical Playboy pinups. The 'Ninth Wonder of the World's first shoot for Hefner's mag was one of its best selling issues of all time, boosted by the perfect mélange of wrestling's Attitude era boom and the piqued curiosities of its predominantly male fandom. Even after leaving WWE, Chyna's stock was sufficiently high to feature in a sequel issue, before she gradually transitioned into the adult industry full-time. Laurer was far from the typical Playboy pinup - and perhaps that's what made her one of its most important.

13. Maryse

It's not even necessary to say it at this point. Maryse. Diva Search. Eliminated. Hired anyway. Obvious reasons.
The future Mrs. Mizanin unclothed for Playboy's special 'Vixens' issue in 2006, as well as baring her Quebecers for the publications 2007 Girls of Canada calendar, though for a change, the erotic exposé wasn't tediously transformed into an on-screen angle.

12. Candice Michelle

For Candice Michelle, see: Carmella DeCesare, Christy Hemme, Ashley Massaro, and Maria Kanellis. Her transition to wrestling followed an identical route, the erotic actor and model using the Diva Search as a conduit into WWE. Like her contemporaries selected from the competition, a long and glittering in-ring career was never the objective, and instead she completed the natural apotheosis of a Diva by disrobing for Playboy in April 2006.

11. Maria Kanellis

It's a familiar story: Maria Kanellis, a star of beauty pageants in her youth, was drafted into the WWE fold thanks to the Diva Search in spite of her complete lack of sporting credentials. After three years of residency which ran the usual gamut of unedifying matches centred around the removal of lingerie and such, Maria was coaxed by former Playboy cover star Ashley Massaro into following birthday suit by posing for the mag. And so she did - but not before having to beat Beth Phoenix to earn the right. Maria had originally been asked to get her kit off for the softcore 'zine as a teenager, but snubbed the offer through fear of embarrassing her sister. Clearly, she no longer gave a sh*t seven years later.

10. Christy Hemme

Making her WWE PPV bow in the aforementioned grotty Lingerie Pillow Fight opposite fellow Diva Search finalist Carmella DeCesare rather set the tone for Christy Hemme's early tenure in the wrestling biz. A former burlesque dancer and model, Hemme had prior (clothed) centrefold experience in Playboy magazine before dropping her drawers for a WWE promoted issue in 2005. Booking 101 dictated that yes, another locker-room colleague took umbrage at the spread, the chagrin on this occasion belonging to former fitness model Trish Stratus.
The 2005 edition was the first time Hemme had appeared au naturel, a move for which she sought the permission of her father, weirdly. Probably easier to just do it on the sly than make him totally aware.

9. Ashley Massaro

Although both Ashley Massaro's father and brother competed as amateur wrestlers, she was one of a raft of women with absolutely no prior industry experience hired as part of WWE's Diva Search programme on account of their other marketable assets.
After a typically degrading freshman year common to all nascent Divas, featuring the requisite array of Bra and Panties contests, Massaro migrated to SmackDown where she experienced more of the same. In February 2007, she revealed herself (quite literally) as the latest Playboy cover star, and a tired old record was respun as Jillian Hall became the latest in a line of begrudging colleagues opposed to the candid shots. Ashley's association with the mag didn't end there; a year later, she encouraged Maria to pose nude, before starring in the tragic Bunnymania Lumberjack 'match' at WrestleMania XXIV.

8. Carmella DeCesare

Ohioan Carmella DeCesare completed the standard Diva career progression in reverse, bearing all for Playboy Magazine in 2002 before she joined WWE.
A shapely brunette with supermodel good-looks and a pre-established proclivity towards getting her kit off, DeCesare was tailor made for Vince's early-2000s Divas department. Unfortunately, she failed at the last hurdle of the company's much-lamented Diva Search in 2004, earning the enmity of just about every contestant along the way.

6. Sable

Arguably as crucial to the Attitude era as Steve Austin and The Rock, Sable set the new blue tone for what a WWE valet should be when she became the company's first ever star to strip nude for Playboy. The April 1999 issue quickly became the hottest selling edition of the magazine ever, simultaneously pushing Sable's popularity into orbit (albeit at the expense of poor Marc Mero). Such was the immense financial success of the shoot that Sable quickly realised she'd outgrown WWE, and could make more money in similar projects outside Vince's auspices. Soon after leaving the company in painfully bitter circumstances, she became the first woman ever to twice adorn Playboy's cover in the same year. She's now married to Brock Lesnar, and we don't advise anyone to eye up her centrefolds just on the off-chance he happens to be nearby.

5. Torrie Wilson

Torrie Anne Wilson started her career as a Fitness model and won in 1998 two important titles before becoming a professional wrestler: the Ms. Galaxy Nova Championship and the Ms. Galaxy Florida titles. World Wrestling Entertainment Diva, Torrie Wilson, is a two-time Playboy cover girl. Her first appearance was in May 2003 and the second one in the special Playboy edition of March 2004. This edition featured two of Playboy’s best selling cover models: Torrie Wilson and Sable, another hot professional wrestler.

4. Maria Butyrskaya

Maria Butyrskaya’s figure skating career is another great example of how hard work and intensive training can translate into incredible performances. The Russian figure skater won the 1999 World Championship, she won three-times the European Championship and six-times the Russian National Figure Skating Championship. Maria Butyrskaya finished fourth at the 1998 Winter Olympics and sixth at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
She graced the covers of Playboy magazine in November 1998, shortly after placing fourth at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

3. Amanda Beard

At the age of only 14 years, Amanda Beard won her first Olympic gold medal, becoming the second youngest American swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal. She broke twice the world record in the 200-meter breaststroke, participated in four Summer Olympics, (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008) and captured a total of seven medals. Amanda stirred quite a bit of controversy, when she unveiled her anti-fur PETA ad at the Beijing Olympic Games. Beard decided to go naked rather than wear fur to help promote PETA’s campaigns. Before posing nude for PETA, Amanda posed nude for Playboy in July 2007 in an effort to change clichés of what it means to be a powerful athlete and woman.

2. Gabrielle Reese

Gabrielle is known just as much for her professional beach volleyball playing as she is for her modeling career. She has been on countless glamorous and sports magazine covers. Reece was WBVL’s (Women’s Beach Volleyball League) blocks leader in 1993. In the 1994-1995 season, Gabby’s hard work paid off and she was awarded the Defensive Player of the Year title. She played in the 1999-2000 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour and the 1999-2000 Olympic Challenge Series.
Gabrielle gained national notoriety after being nominated by Elle as “one of the five most beautiful women in the world” in 1989. Moreover, Women’s Sports & Fitness named Gabby one of the ‘20 Most Influential Women in Sports’. Karen Karbo best describes this amazing athlete: “She accomplishes these things by tapping into her aggressive, competitive side without losing sight of her emotional center or her femininity. Gabrielle Reece is an inspiration to all girls and women who want to become the heroes of their own lives.”
It is really hard to be an elite athlete and feminine at the same time. Well, Gabby’s stunning look conveys both attractiveness and athleticism. She accepted to pose nude for Playboy in 2001.

1. Romy Tarangul, Nicole Reinhardt, Katharina Scholz, Petra Niemann

The no. 1 of this Top 10 list follows a four-in-one pattern. Romy, Nicole, Katharina and Petra are the four German Olympic athletes who posed nude in the September 2008 German Playboy. They appeared on different amazing covers.
German sailor, Petra Niemann, brought home a Silver medal at the 2006 Sailing World Championship, she won several national championship titles and participated in three Olympic Games (2000, 2004, 2008).
Nicole Reinhardt won six Gold medals from a total of eleven at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, including a Gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing in the women’s K-4 500 m event.
Judoka Romy Tarangul is well respected in the international Judo scene. She competed at her first Olympic in Beijing 2008, won a silver medal in the 2008 European Championships and took the first place at the 2008 Judo World Cup held in Bulgaria.
Field hockey player Katharina-Isabel Scholz was an Under 18 European Champion in 2000 & 2001, and an U21 European Vice-Champion in 2004. Katharina won with her German team the prestigious FIH Champions Trophy in 2006 and the European Hockey Championship held in Manchester.

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The Top 20 Most Beautiful Female Athletes Who Posed for Playboy