Bonnie Large Bio
Bonnie Large is an American actress, glamour and nude model. She was born on September 9, 1952, in Glendale, Arizona. Playboy named her its March 1973 Playmate at 20. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.
Large has natural breasts, blue eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 36-23-36.
Her centerfold, photographed by William and Mel Figge, is remembered as one of those editorial moments that quietly rearranged expectations—often described as the first Playmate to appear clearly full‑frontal nude in her centerfold. That distinction is usually set beside Marilyn Cole’s earlier full‑nude pictorial; Bonnie’s spread nevertheless read to many readers as a bolder, more unambiguous presentation of the female form at a time when the magazine was negotiating its own visual limits.
Before the camera found her, she was already testing conventions in less obvious arenas. In 1969 she was a Rose Parade Queen and Court finalist but was disqualified for being too young—still a high‑school junior when the selection occurred. Those early episodes—pageant rehearsals, school corridors—led into a patchwork of practical jobs, from magician’s assistant to work in marketing, that supplied both the poise and the workaday skills she carried into modeling and beyond.
After her pictorial, she explored several off‑page projects: a privately published book of erotic poetry, involvement with the Playboy Playmate Alumni Association in a leadership capacity, and a small acting credit as the model Carolyn in the feature film The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington. Each venture hinted at a willingness to follow curiosity into unexpected formats, whether prose, organizational work, or a brief turn on film.
Later in life she turned toward therapeutic practice, training in neurotherapy, biofeedback and hypnotherapy and applying those techniques to help children with attention, learning and emotional challenges. The arc from centerfold to clinic is not a tidy narrative of redemption or retreat; it is, simply, a sequence of recognizable public acts—images, small performances, published verse and clinical work—that together make for an unusually varied professional life.
