Gig Gangel Bio 
Gig Gangel is an American busty nude model, and actress. Born Geraldine Marie Maples on October 17, 1958, in Harlingen, Texas, she has also been credited as Georgiana Gangel and Gig Rauch. Playboy named her its January 1980 Playmate at 21. Her appearance came during Playboy's polished, high-production 1980s period.
Gangel has natural breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 38-24-36.
Gig Gangel arrived at Playboy with a visual résumé already in place: she had appeared on the magazine’s October 1979 cover, and the centerfold that accompanied her feature was shot by photographer Ken Marcus. That pairing — a cover that promised more and a Marcus portrait that delivered — is the clearest piece of new context her archive entry supplies, and it helps explain why her images from that moment have kept a tidy circulation among collectors and fans.
Before and around that work, Gangel built a conventional magazine-modeling path, appearing on other covers and in fashion‑and-glamour layouts that read as situational, versatile assignments rather than a long studio contract. Those early pages emphasized the polished, camera‑ready side of her look and kept the focus on photographic craft as much as on celebrity.
She also experimented briefly with on‑screen work, taking a handful of small parts and screen tests that never developed into a sustained film career. The acting episodes are best described as a sidestep rather than a second act — short-lived efforts that added a bit of variety to an otherwise magazine-centered résumé.
After her years of steady exposure Gangel largely retreated from public life. Her centerfold, photographed by Marcus, remains the clearest artefact of that season: a high‑production image that still circulates in retrospectives of late‑1970s and early‑1980s Playboy photography, the sort of picture that keeps a name in the brief, bright memory of the archives even when the subject prefers a quieter life.
