Bebe Buell Bio
Bebe Buell is an American glamour model, actress, and singer. Born Beverle Lorence Buell on July 14, 1953, in Portsmouth, Virginia, she has also been credited as The Beeb. Playboy named her its November 1974 Playmate at 21. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.
Buell has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 35-24-35.
Discovered by Eileen Ford and whisked into New York’s orbit at eighteen, Bebe Buell moved easily between fashion houses and the city’s music scene, where the backstage and the billboard often blurred. Her centerfold—captured by Richard Fegley—was only one public register of a life spent at the crossroads of glamour and rock: Buell’s presence read as much like a lyric as a photograph, and she became a recurring figure in the personal histories of several prominent musicians of the era.
Alongside that visibility, Buell pursued her own creative outlets. She formed the band The B-Sides in 1980, recorded with Ric Ocasek and members of The Cars, and remained an active performer and songwriter across subsequent decades, issuing work as recently as the 2011 album Hard Love. Those choices kept her inside the music she orbited, translating muse-status into actual records rather than letting it remain merely a rumor of influence.
Her social life was inseparable from her public story: relationships with figures such as Todd Rundgren and Steven Tyler are part of the documented record, and the birth of her daughter Liv Tyler led to a notably unconventional domestic arrangement—Liv was initially raised under the surname Rundgren while Todd Rundgren acted as a father figure. Buell’s role in managing aspects of her daughter’s early career also figures among the pragmatic chapters of her life in the spotlight.
Her memoir, Rebel Heart: An American Rock and Roll Journey, gathered those episodes into a single, plainly told narrative and found a broad readership. After years between New York and New Jersey, Buell’s later move to Nashville placed her squarely in a songwriting and performance community where she continues to write and play—an archival figure whose story keeps adding new pages rather than settling into a single image.
