Kelly Gallagher Bio
Kelly Gallagher is an American glamour model, and prominent interior designer. She was born Kelly Wearstler on November 21, 1967, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Playboy named her its September 1994 Playmate at 26. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1990s print era, a period increasingly shaped by entertainment and celebrity culture.
Gallagher has natural breasts, blue eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 34-24-35.
Photographed for her Playboy centerfold by Arny Freytag and Stephen Wayda, Gallagher’s pictorial emphasized a poise and attention to composition that hinted at a parallel career waiting off the page. Discovered while working as a hostess in Beverly Hills—an encounter with photography editor Marilyn Grabowski—she went on to appear in several Playboy video productions before stepping away from that chapter to pursue a different creative path.
Raised in Myrtle Beach by a mother who ran a design business, she took that early exposure to interiors into formal study, attending the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston for graphic design and supplemental architecture courses. Her training included internships with Cambridge Seven Associates and time with graphic designer Milton Glaser in New York, experiences that married practical craft to a cultivated sense of scale.
A move to Los Angeles in her mid‑twenties brought production‑design work and a brief ambition to work in film as a set decorator, but by the mid‑1990s she was building a studio of her own. Founding Kelly Wearstler Interior Design (formerly House of KWID), she established a signature mix of bold color, layered pattern and vintage finds—an approach critics often label mod‑baroque—through hospitality projects such as the Viceroy properties, the Avalon in Beverly Hills and The Tides in Miami Beach.
Wearstler expanded beyond commissions into product lines and a series of design books, and she appeared as a judge on Bravo’s Top Design. She has counted entertainment figures and luxury hotel groups among her clients. Now based in Beverly Hills and married to hotel developer Brad Korzen with two sons, Gallagher’s career traces a deliberate shift from photographic composition to rooms that stage a similar kind of visual drama.
