Christina Santiago Bio 
Christina Santiago is an American glamour model and television personality. She was born on October 15, 1981, in Chicago, Illinois. Playboy named her its August 2002 Playmate at 20. She was later named Playmate of the Year 2003. Her appearance came in the 2000s, as Playboy's print tradition began to share space with an expanding online presence.
Santiago has natural breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 34-24-34.
Christina Santiago’s first major encounter with Playboy came through television rather than a conventional casting session. She became one of three finalists on Fox’s Who Wants to Be a Playboy Centerfold? Although she did not win the competition, Playboy offered her a centerfold of her own. Santiago later recalled that she had initially been disappointed by the result, only to reverse course when the magazine called with the unexpected offer.
Her Playboy work continued well beyond that first pictorial. She appeared in several Playboy videos and posed for additional newsstand special editions, building on the exposure that began with the televised competition. The following year also brought an important first: Santiago became the first Puerto Rican woman to receive Playboy’s annual Playmate honor, adding a distinctive place in the magazine’s history without changing the ambitions she was already discussing publicly.
Those ambitions included acting and choreography, and Santiago eventually added screen work outside Playboy to her credits. She played Margarita Rodriguez in the dramatic short A Tale of Two Sisters, giving her a scripted role rather than another appearance built around modeling. It was a modest but concrete step into one of the fields she had identified as a goal during her early Playboy years.
Music video work provided another connection to mainstream entertainment. Santiago appeared in the video for “Shawty Is a 10” by The-Dream, whose debut single became part of the late-2000s R&B landscape. Between that appearance, her acting work and continuing Playboy assignments, her credits moved across several corners of the entertainment business rather than remaining confined to magazine photography.
What stands out in Santiago’s early story is the reversal at its center: a competition she did not win nevertheless became the introduction to the work for which she became best known. Television brought her to Playboy, Playboy kept her in front of cameras, and she subsequently tested the acting ambitions she had spoken about from the beginning. Sometimes finishing among the finalists turns out to be more consequential than taking first place.
