Britt Fredriksen Bio
Britt Fredriksen is a Norwegian teacher, glamour and nude model. She was born on October 1, 1945, in Drammen, Norway. Playboy named her its June 1968 Playmate at 22. Her appearance came during the 1960s, as Playboy grew into a major force in American magazine publishing.
Fredriksen has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 34-22-34.
Britt Fredriksen came to the United States with an unusual reversal of roles already under way. In Norway she had worked as a high-school teacher; in California, she found herself back in the classroom studying English at Foothill College. She had prepared with time in England before crossing the Atlantic, but everyday conversation proved just as valuable as textbooks. Fredriksen liked the more social rhythm of American study and credited her friends with teaching her as much of the language as formal lessons did.
The move was also an exercise in finding familiar ground in an unfamiliar country. Fredriksen had grown up near Trondheim in a place she remembered as small enough to retain a country feeling, and she never lost her preference for natural surroundings. Her Palo Alto bungalow reflected that sensibility, filled with art books, English texts and jars of homemade preserves. When homesickness struck, she sought out forests at sunrise, where the air and landscape reminded her of Norway even if California itself felt very different.
Her route into Playboy was almost accidental. After arriving in America, Fredriksen first worked at a Nordic-style restaurant beside a lake in Minnesota, where she heard about the Playboy Clubs. She soon became a Bunny in St. Louis, then transferred to San Francisco after deciding that the Bay Area’s ocean and coastline would suit her far better than the Midwest. The move proved instinctively right: water had always been part of her life, and California added water-skiing and body surfing to the swimming and diving she already knew.
What makes Fredriksen’s story appealing is how little of it feels like a conventional modeling trajectory. Teacher, language student, restaurant worker, Bunny and outdoor enthusiast all came before the photographs became the headline. Playboy entered a life already in motion, shaped less by a plan for fame than by a Norwegian woman testing where in America she might feel most at home.
