Fran Gerard Bio 
Fran Gerard was an American glamour and nude model. She was born Frances Anna Camuglia on March 23, 1948, in New York City, New York. Playboy named her its March 1967 Playmate at 18. Her appearance came during the 1960s, as Playboy grew into a major force in American magazine publishing.
Gerard had natural breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 39-24-36.
Fran Gerard’s work with Los Angeles astrologer Jack Gemini gave her Playboy profile an unusual organizing idea. As his assistant, she spent her days around charts, signs and planetary influences, and she spoke about astrology with genuine enthusiasm rather than treating it as a publicity gimmick. An Aries, Gerard liked the description of herself as curious, experimental and willing to investigate new things, traits she connected to her broader interest in science and the search for meaning beyond everyday routines.
Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli and Gene Trindl, and one small detail made the pictorial particularly memorable: Gerard posed wearing her eyeglasses. Playboy presented the choice as a first for a centerfold, while Gerard herself treated the supposed taboo with amused practicality. She saw no reason to stumble through life half-blind simply because someone might think glasses made a woman less glamorous.
Astrology may have supplied the playful theme of her Playboy appearance, but Gerard’s interests were broad enough to keep that from becoming the whole story. Science, music, books and physical activity all shared space in a life that seemed happiest when there was something new to explore. Even her glasses became part of that independence: she had little interest in changing herself merely to satisfy somebody else’s idea of how a glamour model should look.
Gerard died by suicide in Fountain Valley, California, in 1985 at the age of 37. Her life was much shorter than the curiosity visible in her Playboy-era interviews suggested, but the surviving portrait is still distinctive: an astrology assistant who talked seriously about science, wore her glasses without apology and approached the world with a mixture of skepticism, experimentation and wonder.
