Martha Elizabeth Thomsen Bio
Martha Elizabeth Thomsen is an American glamour and nude model. She was born on January 25, 1957, in Moses Lake, Washington, and has also been credited as Martha Thomsen. Playboy named her its May 1980 Playmate at 23. Her appearance came during Playboy's polished, high-production 1980s period.
Thomsen has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 37-24-35.
Her first appearance in Playboy came not as a centerfold but as a campus portrait: Thomsen showed up (fully clothed) in the October 1978 "Girls of the Pac-10" feature while she was enrolled at Washington State University, a brief, public-minded detour from student life that quietly announced a comfort in front of a lens.
Within a few years she left college and took to the skies, working as a flight attendant with Eastern Airlines. The job put her on a different kind of runway—long corridors, tight schedules, and a public-facing polish—that preceded her decision to pursue modeling more seriously.
Thomsen moved from occasional shoots into agency representation, signing with names such as Elite and Wilhelmina. Those placements anchored a fashion-side résumé: editorial and runway work that balanced commercial assignments with the glamour editing she had already experienced.
The sequence—campus feature, life in the cabin, and agency-backed modeling—gave Thomsen a range of professional settings before her magazine centerfold arrived, a career path that read less like a single calling and more like a series of well-traveled chapters.
