Mickey Winters Bio
Mickey Winters is a French Playboy Bunny, glamour and nude model. She was born on September 30, 1940, in Paris, France. Playboy named her its September 1962 Playmate at 21. Her appearance came during the 1960s, as Playboy grew into a major force in American magazine publishing.
Winters has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 36-18-35.
Don Bronstein photographed Mickey Winters’s centerfold, and one tiny editorial detail gave the session an unexpectedly long afterlife among collectors. A caption described her as “relaxing in the hay,” although attentive readers pointed out that she was actually reclining on straw. It was hardly a major error, but precisely the sort of small imperfection that becomes part of magazine folklore once an image has been revisited for decades.
Winters was also part of the social world surrounding the original Chicago Playboy Club. Working there as a Bunny placed her alongside women who understood that the job mixed hospitality with performance, and some of those relationships extended beyond the Club itself. Among the Playmate-Bunnies she counted as friends were Patti Reynolds and Linda Gamble, giving Winters a natural place within the close-knit early Bunny network.
Her Playboy-era interests suggested someone who preferred movement to routine. Fast sports cars, water skiing, swimming and boating all appealed to her, balanced by simpler pleasures such as walking barefoot and indulging in oversized strawberry sundaes. Her relaxed attitude toward nudity also fit comfortably with the European outlook she brought to the Club and to modeling, without turning the experience into something more dramatic than she felt it needed to be.
In 1963, Winters left Chicago for Southern California and moved into work far removed from magazine sets. She divided her time between restaurant management and interior design, two practical fields that allowed her to build a life beyond modeling. That progression—from Chicago Bunny and centerfold subject to hands-on work on the West Coast—gives her story a compact but distinctive shape, remembered as much for the people and anecdotes around Playboy as for the photographs themselves.
