- Title: USA-PLAYBOY/PLAYMATE OF THE YEAR Playboy names its 2015 Playmate of the Year
- Date: 15th May 2015
- Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (MAY 14, 2015) (REUTERS) **** WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY **** VARIOUS OF PLAYBOY PLAYMATE OF THE YEAR FOR 2015, DANI MATHERS, POSING FOR PICTURES BESIDE MINI COOPER CONVERTIBLE VARIOUS OF JOURNALISTS TAKING PICTURES OF MATHERS
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- Story Text: 28-year-old Dani Mathers, a model and actress from Southern California has been named Playboy magazine's 2015 Playmate of the Year.
The announcement was made under a white tent at the Tudor-style Playboy Mansion, residence of Playboy founder and publisher, Hugh Hefner.
For her part, Mather was surprised by the honor.
"Honestly, a little bit of disbelief, only because I was in a year full of absolutely beautiful women, and all of them worked so hard as well, and I know that they wanted it just as bad, so I was almost... I was happy and I was sad, and I was like 'are you sure you read the name right?' It was a little bit of disbelief, but I know that I earned it, and I am so proud."
Hugh Hefner himself was not in attendance. Instead, 23-year-old son Cooper stood in as the public face of the company, talking about global expansion and the changing sexual mores of countries that would have once been off limits.
"Well, there are a lot of markets that Playboy is in that we weren't in before. China being one of them, we introduced the brand to China, relaunched in China recently. Brazil, India, I mean, there are these markets that were not relevant in 1953 when my dad started the magazine, there were markets that maybe not... They wouldn't have socially embraced Playboy in the way that they are today."
Cooper also explained the absence of his 89-year-old father.
"He's good. He's stepped back a lot more just because he's 89 years old, he wants to relax, at the same time, he'll never stop working. No matter what, you'll sit and say 'don't stress anymore,' he won't listen to you."
As Playmate of the Year, Mathers receives 100,000 dollars in prize money and a leased Mini Cooper convertible.
Besides modeling, she is also an actor, having appeared in "Neighbors" and "Furious 7" and has had a recurring role on TV soap "The Bold and The Beautiful."
Mathers, who is Playboy's 56th Playmate of the Year, is featured on the cover of the magazine's June 2015 issue and in an inside pictorial shot by photographer Michael Bernard. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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