Janice Raymond Bio
Janice Raymond was a British Playboy Bunny, glamour and nude model. Born Janice Lynn Whitby on March 25, 1951, in St. Helens, United Kingdom, she has also been credited as Janice Lynn Marshall and Janice Marshall. Playboy named her its December 1974 Playmate at 23. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.
Raymond had natural breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 38-26-38.
Already enrolled at California State University, Raymond kept one foot in the classroom and the other on a nightclub floor, working evenings at the Los Angeles Playboy Club. The job was more than a paycheck: waiting tables in that particular uniform was a form of public training, a lesson in timing, composure and the small professional rituals that read well on camera.
That practical polish caught editorial eyes. Her pictorials carried the same calm, attentive presence she cultivated between lectures and shifts—images that felt less staged than quietly prepared. Photographers and art directors found something useful in the combination of studying one day and performing a practiced hospitality routine the next: a look that suggested intelligence as well as glamour.
Education remained more than a stopgap. Raymond kept returning to her studies even as modeling work circulated, and that steady, pragmatic strand is what distinguishes her portrait from a purely studio-made glamour story. The balance she struck—student, club professional, image on the page—makes for a compact, telling chapter in the fuller archive of 1970s modeling.
