“I want to be remembered as I was when I was young and in my golden times,” she told The Los Angeles Times in 2006. “I want to be remembered as a woman who changed people’s perspectives concerning nudity in its natural form.”
Read her full NYT obituary here.
[Image from her famous Playboy centerford in January 1955, where she winked in a Santa Claus cap as she put a bulb on a Christmas tree.]
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