Sherry Arnett Bio
Sherry Arnett is an American glamour and nude model. She was born Sherry Klemesrud on October 2, 1964, in St. Louis, Missouri. Playboy named her its January 1986 Playmate at 21. Her appearance came during Playboy's polished, high-production 1980s period.
Arnett has natural breasts, blue eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 36-22-34.
Arnett’s centerfold was entrusted to Richard Fegley, whose lens favored polished composition and a kind of practiced ease; the result married Midwestern poise with magazine-scale glamour in a single spread. The pictorial leaned on straightforward styling rather than spectacle, letting posture and a relaxed directness carry the frame rather than elaborate props or narrative staging.
Before the cameras arrived in full force, she was quietly pursuing a very different plan. Enrolled at the University of Iowa with intentions to study pharmacy, she began taking modeling jobs around St. Louis while still in school. That regional work brought her to Playboy’s attention: she first appeared in the September 1984 “Girls of the Big Ten” pictorial, billed as Sherry Klemesrud, and a solo newsstand cover in October 1985 amplified that exposure.
The magazine’s editors kept returning to her image after the initial spread. She later appeared in three Playboy videos and in several newsstand specials — work that captured both motion and still-frame moments and kept her visible beyond a single issue. Those projects presented her more often in sequences and short-form pieces than many contemporaries, giving readers the chance to see how she moved as well as how she photographed.
That shift from pharmacy lecture halls to national magazine pages is the neat, unembellished arc of her early public life: a student whose part-time modeling in the Midwest opened a brief but steady run of professional shoots, cover work and filmed appearances. The through-line is simple and verifiable rather than theatrical — steady regional demand, a few well-timed magazine assignments, and a photographic partnership that delivered a memorable centrefold.
