Nancy Harwood Bio
Nancy Harwood was an American glamour and nude model. She was born on December 17, 1948, in Riverside, California. Playboy named her its February 1968 Playmate at 19. Her appearance came during the 1960s, as Playboy grew into a major force in American magazine publishing.
Harwood had natural breasts, blue eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 36-22-35.
Her centerfold, photographed by William Figge and Ed DeLong, read less like a manufactured image and more like an unguarded moment—so much so that she later told Playboy’s own biographical notes she was “really inexperienced, still a virgin, in fact” when the pictures were taken. That candid aside became one of the things readers remembered: a straightforward admission that undercut the era’s carefully staged glamour and made the pictorial feel unusually plainspoken.
Family life supplied some of the grounding behind the lens. Raised with an older brother and sister, she grew up in a household shaped by a father who worked as a pharmacist; that practical upbringing, by several accounts, gave her a steadying sense of responsibility as she moved through brief moments of magazine attention and public curiosity.
Her professional life after the centerfold moved into quieter commerce: she represented several jewelry makers, a role that traded front‑page spectacle for trade shows and client relationships. That course—work with tangible products, repeat appointments, steady negotiations—offered a different sort of visibility, a business rhythm that demanded polish without the constant glare of editorial promotion.
Nancy Harwood remained connected to the community surrounding the photographs that once introduced her. Years later she served as president of the Centerfold Alumni Association, a position that kept her in the company of other former models and involved with the alumni network’s events and advocacy. It was a fitting coda: a life that began, as many did, with a memorable image and settled into civic and commercial chapters that kept the story both private and, when needed, public.
