Petra Verkaik

Playboy Playmate of The Month for December 1989

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Petra Verkaik is an American actress, glamour and nude model. She was born Petra Charlotte Verkaik on November 4, 1966, in Los Angeles, California. Playboy named her its December 1989 Playmate at 23. Her appearance came during Playboy's polished, high-production 1980s period.

Verkaik has natural breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 37-24-35.

If Petra Verkaik is remembered for one record, it is the sheer volume of her work: she appears in Playboy editorial and special-edition pages more than sixty times, a cadence of appearances that extended into the magazine’s video program and fan-driven features. That visibility was recognized by readers in 1997, when she received Playboy’s Readers’ Choice Model of the Year honor, and it kept her name circulating well after the original pictorials ran.

Her move into production cut against the grain of late‑20th‑century modeling careers. In 1995 she launched Pin-Up Girls, a company built to create and control the shoots and videos she starred in—a rare instance, at the time, of a model translating magazine exposure into a production business of her own. The venture underlined a practical side to her public persona: image-making that also managed the means of production.

Verkaik also maintained a steady screen presence. She turned up on television in a guest spot on Married... with Children and took roles in features such as Pyrates, Auntie Lee’s Meat Pies, Love Potion No. 9 and The Last Road, moving between small-studio comedy and cult-genre fare with the same professional steadiness she brought to the camera for shoots and tapes.

Her active run with Playboy lasted into the early 2000s, with a retirement from regular modeling in 2003 and a magazine revisit in a Playmate Xtra feature in 2010. Taken together—frequent pictorials and videos, an entrepreneurial production company, and steady screen work—her career reads less like a single flash and more like an extended, self-directed chapter in late‑20th-century American glamour.

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