Swimmer Amanda Beard is appearing in the July, 2007 Playboy Magazine. ESPN.com posted an Associated Press story and has an interesting discussion thread attached. From the article:
There's a lot more of the 25-year-old swimmer on view in the July issue of Playboy, where a topless Beard is on the cover billed as "the world's sexiest athlete nude."
Inside, she takes off her clothes in eight pictures certain to create a stir among rivals and young girls who consider her a role model.
Beard is unapologetic about what she calls her latest "outside adventure." After all, she's modeled in men's magazines before, notably a spread in FHM that left little to the imagination.
"This is a once in a lifetime opportunity and I really felt excited and motivated to do it," she told The Associated Press on Thursday, sipping coffee in the sunny backyard of her Venice home.
"I'm kind of used to people not necessarily agreeing with everything that I do and that's totally fine. This doesn't change my personality or who I am. It's just a business decision, a career decision."
[Beard calls Playboy appearance 'a business decision' - ESPN.com]
