Shallan Meiers Recalls Posing Nude

Years earlier than The Girls Next Door made Holly Madison a star, Playboy had one other actuality present that adopted the model’s seek for a brand new mannequin — and one contestant is opening up about her time on the Fox particular.

“Playboy was not my dream,” Shallan Meiers recollects in Us Weekly‘s unique clip from season 2 of Secrets of Playboy, premiering Monday, July 10, on A+E.

Meiers was working as a waitress at Spago in Las Vegas when a scout from Playboy approached her and requested whether or not her breasts had been actual. “My face just looked like this,” Meiers defined earlier than miming an expression of shock. “I let her know I was only 20, so she told me I should talk to my mom.”

Before her dialog with the scout, Meiers had “never even seen” a problem of Playboy, so her mom suggested her to flip by means of a duplicate and see if she felt “comfortable” after trying on the pictures.

“I bear in mind trying on the Playboy and considering, ‘Wow, these women are gorgeous,’” Meiers told the camera. “I thought there was no way they could make me look like those girls because those girls — they just don’t look actual.”

Meiers’ curiosity was piqued after trying on the journal, however she was nonetheless a bit apprehensive concerning the concept of posing nude. “I knew whatever [the scout was offering] was a big opportunity, it’s just whether or not I could be comfortable enough to go through with it,” she recalled. “What I told my mom is, ‘I don’t know if I’m gonna be able to get naked.’ She goes, ‘Well, there’s only one way to find out.’”

At the time, Meiers was “incredibly shy,” to the purpose that she felt “uncomfortable” even strolling round in her bathing swimsuit. “I was scared, but tired of being scared,” she mentioned, including that she finally mentioned sure as a result of she was afraid of getting regrets sooner or later.

Meiers in the end appeared on the Fox competitors present The Girl Next Door: The Search for a Playboy Centerfold, which aired in 2002. She was one in all seven semifinalists however misplaced to Lauren Anderson, who was Playmate of the Month in July of that 12 months.

Anderson can be set to seem in season 2 of Secrets of Playboy, which is able to discover the aftermath of a number of girls’s associations with the model. Season 1, which featured interviews with Madison, 43, and Bridget Marquardt, aired final 12 months.

Madison later mentioned that it was tough for her to look at the docuseries after sharing her expertise with its creators. “I watched all of them except episode two. I don’t want to watch myself talk about my trauma again,” she recalled throughout an August 2022 episode of her “Girls Next Level” podcast. “I can’t take it. But every other episode, I watched — and it came out over the course of 12 weeks. I had nightmares after I watched them. I had a nightmare I was back at the mansion every single night after Secrets of Playboy.”

Secrets of Playboy season 2 premieres on A+E Monday, July 10, at 9 p.m. ET.