Shanna Marie McLaughlin Bio 
Shanna Marie McLaughlin is an American actress, glamour and nude model. She was born on May 10, 1985, in West Palm Beach, Florida, and has also been credited as Shanna Marie and Shanna McLaughlin. Playboy named her its July 2010 Playmate at 25. Her appearance came during Playboy's contemporary era of international and digital publishing.
McLaughlin has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 34-26-36.
Shanna Marie McLaughlin arrived in Los Angeles through her corporate career rather than specifically to pursue Playboy. She was working as an account manager for a Florida event-planning company when her job transferred her to California. Acting auditions followed, but she repeatedly encountered casting directors who considered her figure unsuitable for conventional roles. An advertisement for a new Playboy TV competition offered a rather different opportunity.
McLaughlin auditioned for Playboy Shootout, a reality competition in which ten aspiring models competed for a Playboy pictorial and the chance to become a Playmate. The production proved to be an intensive introduction to Playboy modeling: she had never posed nude before and found herself working before judges who included former Playmates. McLaughlin ultimately won the competition, securing the centerfold that established her within the magazine.
Business remained an important priority even as her modeling opportunities increased. At the time of her Playboy feature, McLaughlin was only a few credits short of completing an MBA. She hoped eventually to create a grant or angel-investment-style organization that would provide women with funding to launch businesses, reflecting an entrepreneurial interest that predated her new visibility as a model.
Philanthropy accompanied those plans. McLaughlin used her social-media presence to encourage charitable donations and hosted an event benefiting multiple sclerosis research. Her comments about business also challenged assumptions she encountered about glamour models, emphasizing that many of the women she knew through Playboy combined modeling with education, professional careers and entrepreneurial ambitions.
McLaughlin maintained close friendships within the Playboy community and became a regular visitor to the Mansion while continuing her modeling and acting work. Home life offered a quieter contrast to that schedule: she enjoyed cooking, spending time with her dog Layla and watching Seinfeld, a series she said she had seen in its entirety. Those interests sat alongside an academic and professional background in business that distinguished her Playboy story from a conventional modeling career.
