Elaine Morton Bio
Elaine Morton is an American glamour and nude model. She was born on August 17, 1949, in Wichita Falls, Texas. Playboy named her its June 1970 Playmate at 20. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.
Morton has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 35-24-35.
Elaine Morton had little patience for living according to somebody else’s script. After leaving Texas for California, she began questioning the conventional goals she had once assumed she was supposed to pursue. Her conclusion was simple: as long as nobody was being harmed, people should be left alone to build the lives they actually wanted. For Morton, that meant less interest in status or routine and considerably more interest in freedom, travel and being outdoors.
She put that philosophy into practice by converting a milk truck into a recreational vehicle and taking it south through California and into Baja. Life there followed a rhythm she found difficult to improve upon: waking at dawn, surfing or swimming, cooking breakfast, sunbathing, horseback riding and ending the day with dinner and a sunset. Morton even considered making Mexico her permanent home, saying that the ocean, beaches and clear skies provided all the stimulation she needed.
Her taste for independence did not exclude a little glamour. Morton could imagine an ideal evening built around formal clothes, an excellent dinner and dancing with a man who knew when to stop taking life seriously. Marriage, however, held considerably less attraction. She regarded the institution as an unnecessary complication and showed no urgency to exchange personal freedom for a more conventional domestic arrangement.
Playboy also created a small family connection that would surface years later. Morton’s cousin, Karen Morton, would eventually appear in the magazine as well, placing the two women within an uncommon family thread in Playboy history.
What survives most vividly from Morton’s Playboy-era portrait is her insistence on enjoying the present without turning pleasure into another achievement to chase. Shopping, horseback riding, an improvised home on wheels and long days beside the Pacific suited her better than the “establishment modes of living” she had left behind. For Morton, the good life did not require much architecture: freedom, warm weather and enough open road to decide tomorrow later.
