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Oregonian Selected 2007 Playmate Of The Year

2007-07-26 20:33:35

By Joseph Friedrichs, 5-04-07

Hugh Hefner is a genius.

Let s just make that clear right from the start. The founder and editor in

chief of Playboy magazine proved that once again this week when he chose Oregon

bred Sara Jean Underwood as the 2007 Playmate of the Year.

The spectacular 23-year-old blonde, a senior in business at Oregon State

University, beat out 11 other candidates to become the magazine s 48th Playmate

of the Year.

I thought I was going to puke, Underwood told The Associated Press. I

thought I was going to faint. I thought I was going to cry. It was every

emotion you can imagine one would feel when given such an honor.

Well, we know most of Oregon experienced just one emotion when the news broke:

sheer joy.

Playboy photographers first met Underwood as a college student when they

visited Oregon State University looking for candidates for the Girls of the

Pac 10 pictorial, the AP reported. She ended up on the cover of the October

2005 issue. She went on to pose for the centerfold of the July 2006 issue.

Underwood will appear in an eight-page nude pictorial in the June 2007 issue.

On a surprising note, Underwood never modeled before appearing in Playboy.

I didn t think I was pretty enough, she said. I m 5 3 , short,

freckle-faced. I m from Oregon. It wasn t a thought in my mind that I could do

something like that.

Underwood heads to Louisville this weekend, where she will host Playboy s

Kentucky Derby party.

She ll be in Portland to sign copies of the June Playboy on Friday, May 11,

from noon to 2 p.m. at Rich s Cigar Store, 820 S.W. Adler St.

She received $100,000 in prize money and a 2007 Mini Cooper S convertible along

with her title as Playmate of the Year.

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huhu

Thursday night, I attended the Playboy June Issue Party hosted by the 2007

Playmate of the Year, Sara Jean Underwood at The Garden of Eden in Hollywood. I

used to go to the Garden of Eden years ago, so I was surprised when I got there

that the place hasn't changed at all. I mean, it wouldn't hurt them to throw

some new paint on the walls, or buy some new furniture. Ikea's not expensive,

y'all. Yeah, that's how exciting this event was. I was checking out the

furniture.

The party was OK, as you've probably guessed by now. Sara Jean Underwood showed

up fashionably late with a couple of body guards that followed her around while

she snapped pictures with fans. Since she was so late, I expected her to look A

LOT better than she did. She seemed like she had been at home watching TV and

suddenly remembered she had this engagement, rolled off the couch, brushed the

crumbs off her lap from the TV dinner she'd been picking at and showed up. I

know she's a Playmate and it doesn't matter what she is wearing, but still. If

you're day job is to be beautiful, by God, run a comb through ya weave before

you step out!