Liza Kei

Playboy Playmate, Miss August 2017

Liza Kei Bio

Liza Kei is a Russian model, Playboy Playmate, international fashion model, and former ballet dancer from Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Born on August 8, 1990, under the sign of Leo, she entered the Playboy archive with a presence shaped by elegance, movement, and the confidence of a model already familiar with the international fashion world.

Liza Kei became Playboy’s Playmate of the Month in August 2017, receiving the title at the age of 27. Her selection marked a return to the magazine rather than a first introduction: four years earlier, she had appeared on the cover of Playboy’s March 2013 issue. Her Playmate feature therefore carried the sense of a career coming full circle, placing a familiar face within one of Playboy’s defining traditions.

Her August 2017 pictorial was photographed by Christopher von Steinbach. The feature balanced a light, intimate mood with the polished control of an experienced fashion model. Liza’s blue eyes, light brown hair, and graceful 33-23-34 figure gave the images their immediate visual character, while her restraint and composure made them feel considered rather than overly performed.

Born in Rostov-on-Don, Liza trained as a ballet dancer before entering modeling. According to her original Playboy profile, she was discovered at a dance recital in her hometown when she was 17 and soon began building an international career. The discipline of ballet remained visible in the way she carried herself: precise, physically aware, and comfortable communicating through posture and movement.

Before becoming a Playmate, Liza had already established a substantial fashion résumé. She worked through agencies including Women Management in Milan and Paris and Modelwerk in Hamburg, while appearing in editorials for publications such as Vogue Turkey, Vogue Germany, and Flair Italy. Her career took her across major European fashion markets before she settled in New York City.

Her Playboy profile also described her as an aspiring architect with a strong curiosity about art, travel, and culture. She spoke about books, French philosophy, Russian food, and the comfort she found in New York after years of moving between countries. Those details give her biography a wider frame: behind the polished fashion image was someone attentive to ideas, place, and the small rituals that make an unfamiliar city feel like home.

Liza Kei’s August 2017 appearance joined two different chapters of her career: the young international model who reached Playboy’s cover in 2013 and the more established woman who returned as a Playmate four years later. Her glamour feels cosmopolitan but never remote, shaped by discipline, curiosity, and a quiet confidence that does not need to announce itself.

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