Judi Monterey Bio
Judi Monterey is an American glamour and nude model. She was born on January 12, 1944, in Bell, California. Playboy named her its January 1963 Playmate at 18. Her appearance came during the 1960s, as Playboy grew into a major force in American magazine publishing.
Monterey has natural breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 34-22-33.
Judi Monterey’s California world was remarkably compact. She had never travelled farther south than Long Beach or farther north than Santa Barbara and had never been on a train, plane or boat. That lack of wanderlust was entirely intentional. Monterey saw little reason to leave a place that already offered the weather, lifestyle and opportunities she wanted, and she treated California less as a starting point than as the place she was perfectly happy to remain.
Modeling was the ambition she took most seriously, with acting as a possible next step if the right opportunities appeared. Her centerfold was photographed by Peter Gowland, whose work helped define the clean, polished Southern California glamour style of the period. For Monterey, the Playboy assignment fit naturally into the professional direction she already hoped to pursue.
Her ideas about romance were considerably more specific than her thoughts about travel. Monterey’s ideal evening involved a filet mignon dinner, a visit to the dog track, then a Paul Newman or Frank Sinatra movie with banana ice cream. She wanted a man with individuality and a sense of humor and had little patience for possessiveness, conceit or narrow-mindedness.
That combination of ambition and contentment gives Monterey’s Playboy-era portrait its character. She wanted to model, perhaps act and enjoy the social possibilities around her, but she showed no urge to reinvent herself somewhere else. In an era when so many young models treated California as a destination, Monterey was already home.
