Karin and Mirjam van Breeschooten Bio
Karin and Mirjam van Breeschooten is a Dutch actress, glamour and nude model. She was born on November 15, 1970, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and has also been credited as Karin van Breeschooten and Mirjam van Breeschooten. Playboy named her its September 1989 Playmate at 18. Her appearance came during Playboy's polished, high-production 1980s period.
van Breeschooten has enhanced breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 35-24-34.
Their centerfold was shot by Stephen Wayda and carried the pictorial title “Double Dutch Treat,” a glossy sequence that framed identical-twin presence as a photographic proposition rather than a gimmick. The assignment placed the sisters in a small, peculiar line of magazine history: they were the second pair of identical twins to share the pages in that way, following Mary and Madeleine Collinson.
The twins had already posed together for the Dutch edition of the magazine before the U.S. exposure. At that point Karin was working as a model while Mirjam was studying nursing; according to their American profile, Karin eventually persuaded a reluctant Mirjam to try a joint pictorial, a decision that emphasized their public partnership as much as their likeness.
Playboy’s interest extended beyond still images. The September pictorial was followed by a filmed profile, Playboy Video Centerfold: Dutch Twins, produced in the Netherlands and designed to show the sisters off-camera—how they lived, worked and related to one another. They later appeared in Playboy Video Playmate Calendar 1990 and in subsequent archival productions; by the time those projects circulated, Karin had relocated to Germany while Mirjam remained closer to home in the Netherlands. Their stated ambitions differed, too: Karin listed acting in a film among her goals, and Mirjam hoped to pursue fashion modeling in the United States.
Off the set, the twins presented themselves as close friends as well as sisters, noting similar personalities with one sister often a touch more outgoing. Their Playboy profile also recorded everyday cultural touchstones—from American cities to television shows they knew from home, including Miami Vice, Moonlighting and Hill Street Blues—an attentiveness the video pieces amplified by following the pair beyond posed studio frames and into ordinary, sisterly moments.
