Maggie May Bio
Maggie May is an American glamour, fashion, and nude model. She was born on November 15, 1987, in Wamego, Kansas, and has also been credited as Maggi Caruthers. Playboy named her its August 2014 Playmate at 26. Her appearance came during Playboy's contemporary era of international and digital publishing.
May has natural breasts, hazel eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 34-25-35.
Maggie May entered Playboy with an established international modeling career already behind her. She began modeling part time as a teenager and later became a full-time catalogue model after reaching the finals of a swimsuit competition. Her commercial work included assignments for Calvin Klein, Neiman Marcus and Planet Blue, while agency representation included Wilhelmina Models in Miami and Elite Model Entertainment.
Growing up in Wichita, May described herself as a jock who played basketball and ran track, even if she approached game days with considerably more makeup than her teammates might have expected. Modeling eventually carried her far beyond Kansas, with periods spent living and working in New York, Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand before Los Angeles became her latest base.
The Playboy offer came through her agency shortly after her move from New York to Los Angeles. May initially hesitated, uncertain whether the assignment suited the career she had built. Seeing Kate Moss appear in Playboy’s 60th Anniversary issue changed her perspective. If one of fashion’s most recognizable models could make that choice, May reasoned, the opportunity could sit comfortably alongside her own commercial work.
May approached the attention surrounding Playboy with an easy sense of humor. She joked that becoming a Playmate mainly made her nervous about her grandparents discovering the pictorial, while the parties and promotional appearances sounded considerably less intimidating. Her ambitions were similarly open-ended: she could imagine herself pursuing architecture or acting just as readily as motherhood or a life spent near the beach.
That flexibility suited a career already defined by movement between cities, countries and different corners of the modeling business. May also resisted reducing attraction or relationships to appearance, saying personality and chemistry mattered more to her than looks and that she valued kindness, generosity and humor. By 2014, years of catalogue work, major commercial clients and international agency representation had given her a professional foundation that existed independently of Playboy.
