Sheila Mullen Bio
Sheila Mullen is an American Playboy Bunny, glamour and nude model. She was born on November 7, 1957, in Hollywood, California. Playboy named her its May 1977 Playmate at 19. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.
Mullen has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 38-25-36.
Ken Marcus’ lens framed a look that read both wholesome and sophisticated—Sheila Mullen’s centerfold favored clean lines and an easy, unforced warmth that fit the magazine’s aesthetic that decade. The pictorial’s balance of approachability and polish is the detail readers still recall: not a pose so much as a mood, captured with the quiet confidence Marcus brought to many of his shoots.
Mullen’s connection to the brand began inside its clubs. She worked as a Bunny at the Playboy Club in Los Angeles, a front-row perch on the scene that led to several follow-ups in the magazine: she was listed among the issue’s “Bunnies of ’77” and appeared in the festive “Playmate House Party” pictorial that ran that December. Those pages kept her in view through the season that followed her centerfold and built a modest, media-friendly arc around a brief moment of concentrated visibility.
One of seven children—three brothers and four sisters—she retreated from the spotlight after that burst of activity, preferring a quieter life away from recurring magazine features. Her Playmates spread, photographed by Marcus, has nonetheless endured among readers of the period as a succinct example of the magazine’s mid-era glamour: an image that does its work without fanfare, and one that still evokes the magazine’s style at the time.
