Jennifer Lavoie Bio
Jennifer Lavoie is an American glamour and nude model. She was born Jennifer J. Lavoie on February 25, 1971, in Nashua, New Hampshire. Playboy named her its August 1993 Playmate at 22. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1990s print era, a period increasingly shaped by entertainment and celebrity culture.
Lavoie has natural breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 32-22-32.
Jennifer Lavoie took an unexpected detour from the usual centerfold arc when she signed on with the Playboy X‑Treme Team and traded posed glamour for mud, rope and rope‑burned knuckles. In 2000 she competed in the Eco‑Challenge expedition race in Borneo alongside fellow Playmates Danelle Folta and Kalin Olson and U.S. Marine officer Owen West—a grueling, globally televised event that put a handful of familiar faces into an unfamiliar arena of endurance and teamwork.
Her route into magazines began much closer to home. After a string of regional swimsuit contests—reports credit roughly seventeen wins and a couple of runner‑up finishes—she attracted the attention of a New York photographer. A New York photographer named Mishka shot a test portfolio that included tasteful nudes; those images eventually found their way to Playboy and opened the door to a sustained collaboration with the company.
That collaboration lasted: Lavoie worked with Playboy for more than seven years, moving beyond a single centerfold into special editions, videos and promotional work. Her pictorial was photographed by Richard Fegley, and she turned up in newsstand specials and video compilations such as Playboy: Wet & Wild V, Edenquest: Sandra Taylor and Playboy: Blondes, Brunettes, Redheads, even appearing on an October 1994 cover.
Outside the magazines she tried her hand at retail management early on and later at small‑business ownership. In 2006 she helped launch Primitive Planters, a New Hampshire firm built around fabric and macramé plant hangers, a venture whose founding has been associated with longtime collaborator Sharon Clair; later records identify a different owner but confirm the company’s 2006 beginnings. She has also continued to make fan appearances at conventions and to maintain a public presence through an official website, a steady if unflashy afterlife for a model who moved from pageant stages to centerfolds to obstacle courses and small‑business experiments.
