Virve Reid Bio
Virve Reid is a Canadian Playboy Bunny, glamour and nude model. She was born on November 24, 1956, in Vancouver, Canada. Playboy named her its June 1977 Playmate at 20. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.
Reid has natural breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 36-22-32.
Reid’s centerfold was photographed by Grant Edwards and Phillip Dixon, images that contemporary notes described as emphasizing her striking features and an easy, understated elegance. Those pictures presented the poise and composure that made the spread one of the quieter, more composed pictorials of its moment, less about spectacle than about a fallow, deliberate glamour.
She is of Scottish, English and Estonian heritage, a mix often mentioned alongside her imagery and part of the visual shorthand editors used to explain her distinctive look. Her given name—Virve, pronounced “Veer-va”—was as singular as the profile she brought to the camera, a touch of continental cadence that stood out amid the issue’s roster of faces.
Before and after appearing in the pages that brought her wider attention, she worked at the Playboy Club in London as a Bunny, a concrete chapter of service in the brand’s international circuit rather than merely a biographical footnote. Those club years placed her in an explicitly professional setting for glamour work, one that contrasted with the quieter pursuits she later adopted.
On returning to her hometown she studied aromatherapy, directing attention and skills toward holistic practice after the magazine spotlight. The sequence—club work, the centerfold, then a move into wellness—makes for a concise career arc: a brief public radiance followed by a deliberate turn to private craft. The result is a portrait of a model whose magazine moment is only one facet of a life that also embraced hands-on, quieter work with plants, scents and the rituals of care.
