Additional info: "I went to high school at a nearby town called Sneek
(pronounced Snake). During my senior year I sent a school
picture to a magazine that was holding a modeling contest.
The winner would receive a contract with a modeling agency in
Brussels, Belgium. I didn't win, but I didn't lose either,
the agency that was backing the contest offered me a contract
as well.
I'd always planned to continue my studies in foreign
languages in college, as well as international relations,
then try and get a job working for a multinational company
like Phillips Electronics, (yes it's a Dutch Company) or work
as a news reporter as a foreign correspondent.
However this new offer looked to good to turn down. I figured
I would do it for a year and then go back to college to
continue my studies. Well, my career took off, and I don't
think I could have gotten any better education in languages,
international relations and corresponding (with my agency's)
in any university.
What started out as a year turned into many... bouncing
around European cities such as Milan, Paris, Madrid, London
different cities in Germany, as well as trips throughout
North Africa, Australia and eventually America.
Adjusting to America was easy. I instantly got an agent who
paid for my working papers and helped me get a green card. I
started booking jobs in New York, Miami and Chicago. It was
in Miami that Playboy discovered me. They were in the midst
of their search for the 40th anniversary issue Playmate, as
well as shooting a pictorial on models who frequent Miami's
very hip modeling scene. While searching for models, they
found a composite of mine, and then proceeded to track me
down. I was flattered with what they offered me, but wasn't
interested because I was a "fashion model" and not a "nude
model", so I thought. A few weeks later while in Australia,
again they called me to see if I wanted to reconsider. After
talking it over with all my family, friends, neighbors, and
even my mom, I decided what the hell.. If Marilyn could do it
40 years earlier, then I wasn't in bad company.
My problem had been that I was afraid I was going to loose a
lot of clients, which I did, but I also gained some new ones,
so it about evened out. The cool thing with Playboy was that
I got to go to Russia, Taiwan, Croatia and The Chech
Republic, where I became the very first Playmate in the
launch issues of all of those countries. Back in Holland (The
Netherlands) they crowned me Playmate of the year.
Unfortunately they're not giving cars away over there, or 100
thousand cash for being the PMOY. Unfortunately over here an
Anniversary Playmate has never been PMOY as well. I was
hoping that maybe he would break that rule, but what the
heck, can't have it all.
Anyway, after the whole Playboy "thing", for some real stupid
reason or being in a state of insanity for a day, I cut my
hair really short. I guess it was a knee jerk reaction to
seeing myself nude and not sure if I did the right thing. I
thought I liked it (the short hair) for about 2 days, and
then I absolutely hated it. But what do you do? I felt so
unsexy (not a good feeling). The upside of all of this was
that I booked a lot of commercials and other good jobs, but
it forced me to keep my hair short. For two years, I totally
didn't feel like "me" though and all my fans kept asking me
when I was going to let it grow out again. Well everybody,
good news, it's super long again.
I had a baby boy on the 29th of July 1998 and it gave me the
chance to take a good rest and let my hair grow out. While I
enjoy motherhood to the fullest, and never knew a love like
this existed, I've started to work again, doing commercials
and print jobs, and obviously started this website. I'm
pretty creative and this allows me to do what I want. (Let me
know if that's a good-or a bad thing, ha ha). O.k., so that's
where I am in life right now, hope you enjoyed getting to
know a bit about it up until this point! If you join, you
will see a ton of new photos of me, online chats etc. etc. as
well as a bunch of other really cool stuff which will
hopefully keep you coming back for more."
Love, Anna-Marie
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