Jan Roberts

Playboy Playmate of The Month for August 1962

Jan Roberts Bio Editors Choice

Jan Roberts is an American Playboy Bunny, glamour and nude model. She was born on June 9, 1939, in New York City, New York. Playboy named her its August 1962 Playmate at 23. Her appearance came during the 1960s, as Playboy grew into a major force in American magazine publishing.

Roberts has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 39-23-35.

Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar, a studio-minded session that foregrounded poised, classical portraiture rather than bravura novelty. Roberts also carries a small but unmistakable historic footnote: she was the first Playboy Bunny to be named a Playmate, a reversal of the then-common route from magazine pages to club floors. That inversion made her a quietly unusual example of the magazine’s talent pipeline.

Before and after that centerfold, her career ran through the club circuit. She began as a Bunny at the Chicago Playboy Club and later continued her Bunny work at the New Orleans Club, a sequence of assignments that kept her regularly in front of photographers and editors and on the short list for repeat features.

Playboy’s editors returned to her image several times after the centerfold. Roberts appeared again in the magazine in January 1963 and July 1963, then in October 1964 and August 1966, a string of reprises that extended her visibility across the decade and reflected an ongoing editorial interest in her photography.

Taken together, those facts sketch a career less tidy than a single centerfold credit—one shaped by club work, studio craft and recurrent magazine features. The combination of a Posar portrait, a Bunny-to-Playmate trajectory and multiple later appearances makes Roberts a distinctive presence in the archive of 1960s glamour.

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