Jennifer Liano Bio 
Jennifer Liano was an American actress, glamour and nude model. Born Judy Young on February 24, 1948, in San Diego, California, she has also been credited as Judy Stirling. Playboy named her its May 1970 Playmate at 22. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.
Liano had natural breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 36-22-34.
Jennifer Liano’s creative instincts showed themselves early. Growing up between San Diego and San Francisco, she drew as a child and later turned to making metal rings, which she sold through shops around the Bay Area. Her customers often came from the counterculture crowd, but Liano was careful not to confuse sympathy for free expression with adopting a ready-made identity. She dismissed fashionable hippiedom as costume when it lacked conviction, even as she strongly supported freedom of speech and the right to protest.
That distinction became personal during her brief time at San Francisco State. Liano was there during the period of student unrest surrounding university president S. I. Hayakawa and supported the strike, but she also felt the disruption had shaken the school deeply enough to make her question whether she wanted to remain. She left after a quarter, joining others who were uncertain what kind of institution would be left once the confrontation settled. The experience seems to have sharpened an instinct she already had: conventional routes were unlikely to satisfy her for long.
Art offered a better fit. Liano disliked the idea of a nine-to-five routine and preferred painting, jewelry-making and the freedom to decide what came next. Her father, an Italian count, had more traditional ideas and encouraged her to study art in Florence and perhaps find a suitably aristocratic husband. Instead, Liano turned the European trip into something far less formal.
Liano’s later family life brought another unexpected connection to television culture: her daughter, Lydia McLaughlin, became known through The Real Housewives of Orange County. Liano died in 2024 at the age of 76. Her Playboy-era portrait remains especially vivid because it captures a woman already resisting easy labels—artist, traveler, protest supporter, free spirit—while insisting on choosing the shape of her life for herself.
