Playboy’s girl of the month of the November issue, dedicated to the memory of Hugh Hefner, is an extraordinary model Ines Rau.
Rau has made history by becoming Playboy’s first transgender Playmate. Frenchwoman of African descent had her operation for changing the sex at the age of 15 years, after what started building a model career.
According to BBC Ines first appeared in Playboy’s May 2014 issue in a special edition, which looked at gender as non-binary. After such success, she’s also appeared in Vogue Italia and starred in a campaign for fashion brand Balmain.
But the November/December issue was the highest decision for the 26-year-old model as she appears in the magazine’s coveted centrefold spot.
“During this photo session, I was thinking about the most difficult days of my childhood. Now everything that’s happening makes me happy. I did not think that I would become the girl of the month in Playboy. This is the most pleasant compliment I’ve ever received, “says Ines.
Now Rau became the first transgender Playmate in the magazine’s 64-year history.
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“Nudity means a lot to me since I went through a transition to get to where I want to be. And now everything happening gives me so much joy and happiness. I thought, ‘Am I really going to be a Playmate – me?'”
At the age of 15, she moved to New York, where she began dancing at DJ concerts and built a modelling career. Besides, Rau is professionally engaged in Thai boxing and kickboxing.
Ines Rau is not the first transgender model featured in Playboy. In the early 80’s Caroline Cossey appeared on the cover of the men’s magazine, a famous activist who also starred in the James Bond film “Only for your eyes”. After the death of the founder of Playboy, Cossey said that he personally asked her to be on the cover page.
