Alexandria Karlsen Bio
Alexandria Karlsen is an American actress, author, glamour and nude model. She was born on October 26, 1978, in Mesa, Arizona, and has also been credited as Lexie Karlsen and Alexandria Karlsen Wolfe. Playboy named her its March 1999 Playmate at 20. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1990s print era, a period increasingly shaped by entertainment and celebrity culture.
Karlsen has natural breasts, brown eyes and red hair. Her measurements are 34-23-34.
Alexandria Karlsen took an unusually business-minded route into modeling. At eighteen, she earned her Series 6 and Series 63 securities licenses and went to work in the financial industry, including a position with The Vanguard Group. Finance was only one of her interests: she also gained experience in journalism, writing and editing for a local newspaper, and described herself as someone who became bored easily and preferred having several possible career paths.
Modeling became another of those options when Karlsen decided to send her portfolio to Playboy. Photographers Arny Freytag and Stephen Wayda photographed her centerfold, beginning an association with the magazine that continued through Playboy videos and special editions. Her background in securities gave Playboy plenty of material for financial wordplay, while Karlsen herself approached her changing career with characteristic pragmatism, saying that modeling, writing and finance were all possibilities as long as she was happy with the direction she chose.
Karlsen continued modeling after Playboy and expanded her work beyond the magazine. In November 2002, she appeared in Stuff magazine in a feature titled “A Day in the Life of a Centerfold.” She eventually moved to the business side of the modeling industry as well, founding her own modeling agency—a particularly natural development for someone whose professional life had already combined modeling with finance and an interest in managing her own career.
In July 2006, Karlsen added another major men’s-magazine distinction when she became a Penthouse Pet of the Month. That made her only the third woman to have appeared as both a Playboy Playmate and a Penthouse Pet, following Linn Thomas and Victoria Zdrok.
Karlsen’s career ultimately reflected the variety she had spoken about from the beginning. Securities trading, newspaper work, Playboy, magazine modeling, Penthouse and eventually running a modeling agency gave her several distinct professional identities rather than a single conventional trajectory. The young Vanguard employee who decided to send a portfolio to Playboy did more than change careers—she eventually combined her experience in front of the camera with the business of managing modeling itself.
