Patricia Margot McClain Bio
Patricia Margot McClain is an American glamour and nude model. She was born on May 3, 1954, in Long Beach, California, and has also been credited as Patricia McClain. Playboy named her its May 1976 Playmate at 21. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.
McClain has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 34-24-37.
McClain first reached a broader public with a November 1975 Playboy cover; her centerfold for the magazine was shot by Ken Marcus, a photographer whose careful lighting and composed framing gave the images a quietly editorial edge. Those pages marked the high-visibility phase of a life that would alternate between exposure and quieter professional work.
After her centerfold and cover work she stepped away from regular modeling and took a job outside the entertainment world. In 1996, when coworkers at a pest-extermination firm discovered her magazine past, she was dismissed from her position as office manager and responded with a lawsuit. The dispute attracted national attention—television reports ran on Dateline and on American Journal—and was resolved in a confidential settlement.
The public controversy brought McClain back into Playboy’s orbit, this time behind the scenes; she worked in the magazine’s editing department while continuing to take occasional modeling assignments. Those dual roles—part editorial staffer, part occasional subject—kept her connected to the publication on both sides of the camera.
At the end of the decade she even weighed a venture into electoral politics, briefly considering a Republican primary challenge to Congressman Elton Gallegly in 1999 before deciding not to run. Looking back on her years in front of the camera she observed, “They took advantage of me with $15,000. That's what I tell the feminists. It was a growing-up thing, and it was also a little girl's dream.” The arc of those episodes—cover and centerfold, dismissal and litigation, a return to editorial work and a flirtation with politics—left McClain’s public story sitting somewhere between tabloid note and a sustained engagement with the institutions that originally made her visible.
