Barbara Hillary Bio
Barbara Hillary is an American Playboy Bunny, glamour and nude model. She was born on February 18, 1949, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Playboy named her its April 1970 Playmate at 21. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.
Hillary has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 37-24-35.
Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar, a credit that places the pictorial in the magazine’s craft-focused portrait tradition and helps explain the careful balance of light and restraint that shaped her images. The session emphasized straightforward glamour rather than artifice, and it remains a frequent point of reference for collectors and admirers of that period’s photography.
Before and during her time with the brand she worked at the Playboy Club in New York City, where patrons and colleagues remember her as a familiar presence on the club floor. That chapter of her public life belonged to a late‑60s/early‑70s club culture in which the polished service of a Bunny was as much performance as employment, and her turn there is part of the documented record of her professional life in the city.
Accounts of Hillary’s early years add an unexpected streak of adventure: she studied speech and English at Marquette University, was one of five children, and reportedly spent time as a Girl Scout leader in Alaska—an episode that includes a near‑folkloric encounter with a black bear. Another oft‑repeated story has her hitchhiking roughly 300 miles to raise money for college, a practical, determined gesture that sits alongside the glossy images in her public biography.
After her modeling work she trained as a registered nurse and volunteered in the Philippines, assisting with cataract surgeries for people in need. That later, service‑oriented work is a concrete part of her life record and adds a different kind of accomplishment to the public narrative that began with her work in front of the camera.
