Karen Victoria Silvstedt (born 19 September 1974, in Skellefteå, Sweden) is a Swedish supermodel, Playmate of the Year, movie actress, radio and TV hostess, published singer, and a former national-level skier in Sweden.
Silvstedt claimed that at the age of 16 she competed in a "Best Fake Orgasm" contest at a local bar. The contestants were Silvstedt and 10 men. She won a brand-new TV. When she came home, she told her mother she won it at a game of bingo.[1]
Silvstedt was the first runner-up in the Miss Sweden pageant which was won by Johanna Lind.
After losing that she was then signed by a Parisian modeling agent and began a career in high fashion, working for various companies including Chanel, Christian Dior, Loris Azzaro, Givenchy, Valentino, and Giorgio Armani.
In 1993, Silvstedt appeared in Girls of Northern Europe (Bishiõjo-kikõ), in which she was photographed in frontal nudity three years before appearing in Playboy in 1996. After being approached by Hugh Hefner to be recruited as a Playboy centerfold, she appeared as the Playmate of the Month in the December 1996 issue of Playboy, and she was soon selected as the Playmate of the Year in 1997. She has been featured in numerous magazines, including GQ, Maxim, FHM, Gear, and Nuts, where in 2005 she came in second to actress Jennifer Ellison in a competition to find the Sexiest Blonde in the World.
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