Lorna Hopper Bio
Lorna Hopper is an American glamour and nude model. She was born on August 31, 1950, in Houston, Texas. Playboy named her its April 1969 Playmate at 18. Her appearance came during the 1960s, as Playboy grew into a major force in American magazine publishing.
Hopper has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 35-23-34.
Lorna Hopper’s creative ambitions extended beyond modeling. With her sister Pat, she began developing a clothing line built around a decidedly sensual philosophy of dress. Pat helped with the designs while Hopper handled the sewing herself, and she liked the idea that clothing could decorate the body rather than simply conceal it. The project suited someone who was comfortable moving between glamour, fashion and hands-on creative work.
Her outlook had also been shaped by an unusually mobile adolescence. Hopper spent two years in Manchester, England, after her father took a job there, moving from Texas just as she entered her teens. The industrial setting could be bleak, but she was impressed by what she saw as the British tendency toward candor, ease and a less obsessive attitude toward success. Manchester left enough of an impression that she continued to talk warmly about British culture even after returning to the United States.
California eventually became the place where she wanted to build her career. Hopper believed Los Angeles was gaining ground on New York as a center for modeling and liked the sense that something new was happening on the West Coast. Even so, Texas retained a strong emotional pull. She admired its open land and space, and trips home often meant camping with her siblings rather than slipping back into city life.
That combination of glamour and practicality was central to Hopper’s appeal. She could talk about modeling one minute and sewing the next, spend time roughing it outdoors, then return to questions of fashion and how the body should be presented. Rather than fitting neatly into one version of late-1960s femininity, she seemed happiest moving among several of them at once—model, designer, traveler and outdoorswoman, all without treating any one role as the whole story.
