Linda Forsythe Bio
Linda Forsythe is an American glamour and nude model. She was born on May 14, 1950, in Jersey City, New Jersey. Playboy named her its February 1970 Playmate at 19. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.
Forsythe has natural breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 35-23-35.
Linda Forsythe came to Playboy with unusually definite opinions about the political climate around her. She had little patience for the more theatrical side of the counterculture, arguing that lasting change was more likely to come from reasoned engagement than from destructive protest. Forsythe was hardly defending the status quo; she simply believed reform required patience, discipline and people willing to work within institutions rather than abandon them.
That outlook was closely tied to her plans for social work. While studying in New Jersey, Forsythe realized that the courses she needed would take her into Manhattan, where New York University offered the graduate training she wanted. She was particularly interested in working with young people and even spoke of adopting a child one day. Her ambitions were practical rather than abstract: study, work, help people and still leave enough room to enjoy life along the way.
Forsythe had already tested herself in a more glamorous setting before Playboy. Representing Hudson County in the Miss Teenage America competition, she reached the finals and finished second. Missing the national stage did not seem to bother her much. She described herself as content with the way things had unfolded, more interested in what came next than in dwelling on what might have been.
Family remained an important anchor. Forsythe spoke proudly of her father, a research physicist whose intellect she admired, and of her mother, a former schoolteacher. She also had two older sisters. Growing up just across the Hudson gave her easy access to Manhattan’s excitement while preserving a strong attachment to the quieter life she associated with New Jersey.
That tension between the city and home suited Forsythe well. She appreciated Manhattan as a place for young, single people, yet never imagined staying there permanently. Dinner by candlelight, dancing and the pleasures of city life had their place, but so did the cleanness and calm of home. For someone so interested in social change, Forsythe’s own priorities were strikingly grounded: education, useful work, family and the freedom to enjoy life without mistaking noise for purpose.
