People: May 12, 1986

She has the looks and body--35-24-35--of a classic Playboy centerfold. Kathy Shower of Brookville, Ohio, is hardly your typical Playmate, though. For starters, she is 33 and the divorced mother of two. Shower had already done some TV parts before her May Playboy appearance. "I didn't have a name; you've got to get known," explains Shower of her decision to pose nude after a makeup-artist friend submitted some stills of her to the magazine. "I said to my friend that they wouldn't be interested once they learned my age," she recalls. But they were, and so were Playboy's readers, who have...

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