Melinda Mays

Playboy Playmate of The Month for February 1983

Melinda Mays Bio

Melinda Mays is an American glamour and nude model. She was born on February 23, 1962, in Augusta, Georgia. Playboy named her its February 1983 Playmate at 20. Her appearance came during Playboy's polished, high-production 1980s period.

Mays has enhanced breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 35-23-34.

Before cameras took her beyond the gym, Melinda Mays translated a prom‑queen polish into a practical trade: by the early 1980s she was teaching aerobics and exercise classes at an Atlanta health club, a role that sharpened the athletic poise that would become her calling card. That background left its mark on her modeling—she brought the kind of muscular grace more often seen on a fitness floor than a fashion runway.

Her centerfold emphasized that combination of tone and smile, and she extended the relationship with the magazine into moving pictures and special issues. Mays appeared in a string of Playboy videos and several Special Edition publications, working the medium with the same straightforward, camera‑ready energy she relied on as an instructor.

Television work followed alongside the magazine pieces. She made guest appearances on primetime police dramas such as T.J. Hooker and Simon & Simon, turning up on episodic sets where a single scene required the same confident timing she showed in front of still cameras. She also took a literal step into film production, performing stunt work on the comedy She's Out of Control, a credit that underlined the practical athleticism beneath her glamour‑model image.

Taken together, those choices sketch a career that balanced posed images with physical work behind the scenes: fitness teacher, on‑camera model, television guest and stunt performer. The through line was simple and verifiable—Mays brought an early discipline to each new setting, one that let her move between gym, studio and set without pretending the parts of the job were the same.

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