Karen McDougal

About Karen McDougal

Karen is a Phoenix, AZ-based model and actress. She is known for her appearances in Playboy magazine as Playmate of the Month for December 1997 and Playmate of the Year in 1998. In 2001, the readers of Playboy voted her the runner-up of "The sexiest Playmate of the 1990s."
Karen was born in Merrillville, Indiana, and grew up in Sawyer, Michigan. She attended Ferris State University in Michigan before moving to a Detroit suburb where she taught preschool pre-kindergarten, before winning a swimwear competition that launched her career as a glamour, promotional, and swimsuit model. Since her appearances in Playboy, she extended her career into a wide variety of appearances in mainstream media, including other magazine modelling, television commercials, and minor acting, with mixed success.
She has been a successful fitness model, with multiple magazine appearances, including as the first female cover figure on Men's Fitness magazine. She also starred in The Arena, a 2001 direct-to-video film, and inspired the creation of a fantasy art statuette and a doll. She last appeared topless in a pictorial and interview in Spanish magazine Interviu, in 2007, in which she discussed her then relationship with actor Bruce Willis.
Karen is a fitness enthusiast, having studied ballet in her youth and engaged in high school sports. She is also an avid motorcycle and car collector. Since her Playmate days, she has maintained a largely private social life. The revelation of an alleged affair with Donald Trump from 2006 to 2007, and its subsequent coverup, put her into national headlines before and after the 2016 United States presidential election.
Her family has a history of breast cancer, and McDougal, who had breast implants, is an advocate of breast cancer awareness. In January 2017, she had her own breast implants removed after her health had worsened.
Although she is a swimsuit model, she is not a proficient swimmer, due to aqua phobia, or fear of water. She has posed for 6 covers and 6 photosets.

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