Liza Kei Bio
Liza Kei is a Russian glamour and nude model. She was born Elizaveta Kiryukhina on August 8, 1990, in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Playboy named her its August 2017 Playmate at 26. Her appearance came during Playboy's contemporary era of international and digital publishing.
Kei has natural breasts, gray eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 33-23-35.
Liza Kei was discovered as a teenager and entered modeling with some uncertainty about whether she fit the industry’s prevailing image. Before that transition, she had trained as a ballet dancer, a background she later joked was almost as stereotypically Russian as becoming a model. Professional representation eventually took her into international fashion markets and work with agencies and clients including Modelwerk, Blow and Playboy.
Her editorial record developed quickly. In 2012 alone, Kei appeared in Tatler’s “Such Fun,” Institute Magazine’s “Liza,” Grazia Germany’s “Hair,” and Condé Nast Traveller’s “Let’s Get Scilly,” while also landing the December cover of Condé Nast Traveller. The following year brought an editorial for L’Officiel Maroc and, in March 2013, her first Playboy cover.
Fashion assignments continued across Europe through the middle of the decade. In 2014, Kei appeared in Tatler Russia, L’Officiel and Marie Claire France, alongside a January cover for Flair Germany. The next year added editorial work for L’Officiel Ukraine and Flair Germany, plus covers for Grazia France and L’Officiel Ukraine. That sequence established a portfolio built as much around fashion publishing as glamour photography.
Returning to Playboy in 2017 carried personal meaning because Kei already associated the magazine with one of her most memorable earlier bookings. She recalled initially wondering whether Playboy had contacted the correct person, then deciding the experience was something she would one day enjoy telling her grandchildren about. By then, New York City had become her base after years of travel, and she described it as a place where she finally felt settled.
Travel nevertheless remained central to Kei’s life, both professionally and personally. When she missed Russia, she found an improvised ritual in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, visiting a Russian café by the water and FaceTiming her mother over lunch. Away from shoots, she also shared fitness and workout content with her online audience, adding a more casual dimension to the polished editorials and magazine covers that had defined much of her modeling career.
