Many Playboy bunnies have gone on to fame and fortune after gracing the cover of the famous men's magazine.
And some of Hollywood's biggest stars have boosted the mag's sales with alluring, enticing cover shots. Now, a list has been compiled to reveal the best celebrity cover models over the years.
The list tailored by FoxNews includes -
1. Raquel Welch, December 1979
Welch's career might have been waning in 1979 but her sex appeal was still at an all-time high. The cover headline read, “A Celebration of the Decade's Most Desired Women.”
2. Ann-Margret, October 1983
The same year that Ann-Margret made a TV movie playing a dying mother of ten children, she posed for her Playboy cover.
3. Sharon Stone, July 1990
After “Total Recall” with Arnold Schwarzenegger and a cover and nude photo spread in Playboy, Sharon was off and running to major Hollywood stardom. Playboy listed her in the “Top 25 All-Time Sexiest Stars of the Decade.”
4. Dolly Parton, October 1978
Dolly graced Playboy in full bunny attire: tail, ears, and double-Ds. That same year she won a Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.
5. Farrah Fawcett, December 1978
Fawcett, who steadfastly resisted appearing nude in films or magazines throughout the 1970s and 1980s, caused a major stir by posing nude in the December 1995 issue of Playboy, which became the best-selling issue of the 1990s, with over 4 million copies sold worldwide.
6. Joan Collins, December 1983
Joan was 49 when she posed for a 12-page pictorial and the cover of Playboy. That same year she starred in a made-for-TV movie called Making of a Male Model.
7. Burt Reynolds, October 1979
Burt has been on the cover of Playboy only once, fully clothed. But from 1973 to 1983 he was featured seven times in Playboy's famous annual “Sex Stars” pictorials.
8. Sally Field, March 1986
In 1986, she was between films, but she got a little career boost, Hef-style, with her cover pose in bunny tail, fishnets, and all.
9. Madonna, September 1985
Madonna embarked on her first concert tour in the U.S. in 1985 titled The Virgin Tour, with the Beastie Boys. In July that year, Penthouse and Playboy magazines published a number of black and white nude photos of Madonna taken in the late 1970s. Madonna took legal action to try and block them from being published, but when that failed she became unapologetic and defiant.
10. Barbra Streisand, October 1977
“A Star Is Born” earned her an Oscar, a Golden Globe, numerous Grammys, a Barbara Walters interview, and a Playboy cover.
When under pressure to take their relationship to the next step by getting intimately involves, Sharon Stone has just one piece of advice for teenage girls – it is better to have oral sex than unsafe sex.
The ‘Basic Instinct’ star, when not working on a new movie, is busy as an activist raising awareness about AIDS, and admits that she always carries condoms with her as a way to encourage people to only have safe sex.
And, she also ever ready to help give teens advice on the dangers of unprotected sex, like the one she gave to a young girl recently.
“I was in the store the other day and I watched a young girl trying on clothes, showing her abdomen. Her mother was trying to talk to her about not being inappropriately luring. I said, ‘Gee that would look much nicer with a camisole under.’ “Her mother walked away, and I said to the girl, ‘I’d like to give you a two-minute conversation about sex,’” Contactmusic quoted her, as saying.
Stone insists that for young people being pressured to have sex by their partners, it is better to perform oral sex, as it can be ‘a hundred times safer’.
“Young people talk to me about what to do if they’re being pressed for sex? I tell them (what I believe): oral sex is a hundred times safer than vaginal or anal sex. If you’re in a situation where you cannot get out of sex, offer a blow job. I’m not embarrassed to tell them,” she said.
"I loved it and refused to take it off for a week!" Sharon Stone Knew About Sexy Basic Instinct Scene.... Basic Instinct star Sharon Stone knew she was had to shoot a racy scene in the film without underwear and even gave the director her panties as a souvenir.
The actress has said she was shocked when the film came out and she was seen onscreen crossing her legs without anything underneath her dress.
The film's director, Paul Verhoeven slams the claims telling PageSix.com, "Sharon Stone gave me her panties as a present before we did the famous (crotch) shot."
Verhoeven also says Stone "had approved the storyboards, even though she later acted surprised by what made it into the movie."
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Sharon Stone and Christian Slater have confirmed rumours they're dating and now plan to spend Christmas together.
The starry couple, who co-star in new movie Bobby, sparked romance rumours when they attended a string of events together, but refused to confirm their relationship.
Now 48-year-old Stone and her 37-year-old beau aren't hiding their affections for each other - they recently attended a party for fashion label Dolce & Gabbana at the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Los Angeles arm-in-arm and made sure everyone knew they were a couple.
A source close to Stone says: "They're both really happy - but they don't have long-term expectations.
"It's a fun fling for the holidays and Sharon is a good influence. She rarely drinks and has three kids. It's a good match for now."
