Sharry Konopski Bio
Sharry Konopski was an American actress, glamour and nude model. Born Sharry Lynn Konopski on December 2, 1967, in Longview, Washington, she has also been credited as Sharry DeBolt. Playboy named her its August 1987 Playmate at 19. Her appearance came during Playboy's polished, high-production 1980s period.
Konopski had natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 32-22-34.
Konopski’s centerfold arrived with the sort of attention its makers and readers expected: a Playboy Mansion-hosted introduction, magazine tours and long hometown lines for autographs. Fans turned up in force; the moment satisfied an early ambition she later summed up bluntly—“Playboy’s in the past. I did my dream.” That early publicity was the prologue to a life that would take an abrupt and public detour.
On April 1, 1995, a highway collision near her Silverlake home flipped her Ford Mustang and left her with catastrophic injuries: two shattered vertebrae, a punctured lung, multiple broken ribs and permanent spinal-cord damage. At 27 she became paraplegic, underwent spinal surgery that included implanted steel rods, and faced the blunt medical prognosis that she would not walk again.
The pages of glossy magazines might have been expected to fall silent, but Konopski returned to modeling and to Playboy itself in March 1997—one of very few to pose after such an injury. She went on to work in videos and projects that foregrounded the beauty and sexuality of women with disabilities, explicitly reclaiming her body and participating in a small but visible cultural conversation about desirability and difference. Those later credits placed her, by circumstance and choice, at the intersection of glamour and an underexamined public discussion about physical variance.
Off camera, she was a wife and mother. Konopski died on August 25, 2017, at 49. Her later career—marked by a high-profile accident, a return to familiar pages and a commitment to modeling that acknowledged disability rather than hiding it—made for a fuller, messier story than a centerfold alone could contain.
