Jill De Vries Bio
Jill De Vries is an American glamour model, cheerleader, and actress. She was born on July 20, 1953, in Kankakee, Illinois. Playboy named her its October 1975 Playmate at 22. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.
De Vries has natural breasts, brown eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 34-23-34.
Her signature centerfold, photographed by Dwight Hooker, carried a small, unmistakable flourish: it was the first Playboy gatefold personally signed by the model. The gesture read like an autograph and a wink at once—an intimate flourish that made the pictorial itself a collectible and set De Vries apart from many of her contemporaries.
Raised in a Midwestern small town, she spent eight years as a cheerleader and took piano lessons for more than a decade, a background that supplied both athletic poise and a sense of practiced presentation. While enrolled in elementary-education studies at Illinois State University she ran a boutique called The Joint General Store, an early lesson in managing an image and a small enterprise. Of Dutch descent, she carried that Midwestern combination of discipline and polish into her modeling work.
Her likeness circulated beyond the centerfold: she appeared on the cover of Playboy’s February 1976 issue and on the March 1976 cover of Oui, and she became a familiar face on the paperback jackets of the Christina novel series. Those jackets and covers kept her photograph in newsstands and book racks, extending the commercial life of a single pictorial into recurring, widely distributed images.
De Vries also made a brief move into film, credited with a small role as a call girl in the 1983 feature Risky Business, where she appeared alongside fellow model Candace Collins and a young Megan Mullally. Between a signed gatefold, paperback jackets and a slice of Hollywood, her career mapped a tidy arc from small-town performer to a photographed presence that circulated across several popular forms.
