Heather Kozar Bio 
Heather Kozar is an American glamour model, actress, and television personality. She was born on May 4, 1976, in Akron, Ohio, and has also been credited as Heather Couch and Heather Kozar Couch. Playboy named her its January 1998 Playmate at 21. She was later named Playmate of the Year 1999. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1990s print era, a period increasingly shaped by entertainment and celebrity culture.
Kozar has enhanced breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 36-24-35.
Heather Kozar’s path to Playboy began far from Hollywood. Raised in Akron, Ohio, in a Christian household with traditional ideas about morality, she eventually developed her own perspective on posing nude. Rather than seeing it as incompatible with her upbringing, Kozar regarded nudity as art and considered being selected from thousands of aspiring models an achievement. That decision brought her to Playboy as Miss January 1998 and soon changed the direction of her life.
Los Angeles and the Playboy Mansion quickly became part of that new world. Kozar attended Mansion events, met celebrities and found herself adapting to surroundings that were considerably different from Ohio. Playboy frequently emphasized her resemblance to Marilyn Monroe, a comparison Kozar said she had heard throughout her life. The magazine embraced that classic-blonde association when she was elevated from Playmate of the Month to Playmate of the Year 1999, incorporating Monroe-inspired makeup and styling into her PMOY presentation.
Playboy proved to be the beginning rather than the endpoint of her modeling career. In 2001, Kozar joined The Price Is Right as one of Barker’s Beauties, bringing her visibility into daytime television. The assignment generated further commercial opportunities, although those outside commitments eventually became difficult to reconcile with the program’s production schedule. She subsequently appeared in advertising connected with brands including Brut, BMW, Wendy’s and Cutty Sark, demonstrating how effectively her Playboy recognition translated into mainstream commercial modeling.
Another prominent assignment followed in 2002 when Kozar became the St. Pauli Girl, joining the long-running succession of models used as the beer brand’s public face. Her image also entered an entirely different cultural setting through the work of artist Jeff Koons. Kozar appears in several pieces associated with his Elvis series, including Elvis, Triple Elvis, Quad Elvis and Peg Leg Double Elvis, carrying an image rooted in glamour photography into contemporary art.
That range gives Heather Kozar a particularly recognizable place among the Playmates of the late 1990s. Miss January 1998 led to Playmate of the Year, but the years that followed took her through television, national advertising, promotional modeling and eventually the imagery of Jeff Koons. The young woman from Akron who once had to reconcile Playboy with the values of her upbringing ultimately became one of the era’s quintessential Playboy blondes—and built a public career that extended well beyond the centerfold.
