Julie McCullough Bio
Julie McCullough is an American Playboy Bunny, glamour model, and actress. She was born Julie Michelle McCullough on January 30, 1965, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Playboy named her its February 1986 Playmate at 21. Her appearance came during Playboy's polished, high-production 1980s period.
McCullough has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 36-24-35.
Julie McCullough moved out of Texas and into a modeling life in her teens, landing in California soon after high school. Her magazine work extended beyond the centerfold circuit: she even topped the coveted Inside Sports swimsuit issue, a mainstream splash that helped make her familiar to audiences who never bought glamour rags. A local honor in 1989—being crowned Azalea Queen of Wilmington, North Carolina—turned unexpectedly public when officials revoked the title after objections to her Playboy past, an early flashpoint that foreshadowed larger headlines to come.
By the late 1980s McCullough was supplementing pictures with parts on screen. Small film work and television bit roles led to appearances on series such as Max Headroom, The Golden Girls and Superboy, and a spot in the creature-feature The Blob. The transition sharpened when she joined Growing Pains in 1989 as the nanny Julie Costello; the casting briefly raised her profile, and the subsequent, very public firing amid objections to her history with adult magazines became a defining career moment that played out in the press.
Rather than vanish, she redirected her stage instincts into comedy. McCullough built a stand-up résumé that took her through noted rooms in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, where her timing and story-based material found an appreciative crowd. Television reality turns followed years later—she reappeared on series including The Girls Next Door and Scott Baio Is 45... and Single—using those platforms to leaven publicity with a prankish, candid persona.
Outside performance she has been visible on a handful of cultural fronts: touring as a Playboy Bunny in 2004, contributing her voice to the tutorial for the video game Playboy: The Mansion, and speaking publicly on animal-rights and reproductive-choice issues while cultivating an early social-media following. The through line in her career isn’t a single industry so much as an appetite for reinvention—answering setbacks by finding a new stage.
