Liv Lindeland

Playboy Playmate of The Month for January 1971

Liv Lindeland Bio Editors ChoicePlaymate of The Year

Liv Lindeland is a Norwegian actress, glamour and nude model. She was born Liv Von Linden on December 7, 1945, in Oslo, Norway. Playboy named her its January 1971 Playmate at 25. She was later named Playmate of the Year 1972. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.

Lindeland has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 36-23-34.

Lindeland’s centerfold is credited with a small but unmistakable revolution in pictorial taste: photographed by Alexas Urba, the layout was the first to present a model with fully visible pubic hair, a frank detail that forced both photographers and readers to reconsider where glamour ended and realism began. The image didn’t shout; it simply shifted an aesthetic boundary, and the ripple showed up in assignments and editorial decisions that followed.

After moving to the United States, she translated that new visibility into steady commercial work. Agencies and photographers booked her for advertising campaigns and magazine covers that prized a poised, classical look rather than fleeting trends, and she became a familiar face in both fashion-oriented and glamour settings.

Lindeland also took several small-screen and film turns across the 1970s and into the 1980s, with credits on features such as Dirty O’Neil and Evel Knievel, and she appeared in Playboy-produced videos and television specials that kept her connected to the magazine’s media output. Those screen appearances were mostly supporting parts, but they extended her reach beyond still photography and introduced her to a different set of audiences.

What endures in the archive is less a single hot moment than the way a precise photographic choice altered expectations. Her centerfold offered a new geometry for glamour photography—one that let certain edges show—and that particular looseness, once visible on the page, proved harder to tuck back in.

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