Gillian Chan Bio
Gillian Chan is an American nude, glamour and fashion model. She was born on May 2, 1994, in San Francisco, California. Playboy named her its November 2019 Playmate at 25. Her appearance came during Playboy's contemporary era of international and digital publishing.
Chan has natural breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 34-30-43.
Gillian Chan came to modeling through a distinctly digital bit of curiosity. After moving back to New York, she found an Instagram profile belonging to a model she thought resembled her, traced the account to the agency representing her and decided to submit a photograph of her own. The agency responded within a week, surprising Chan, who said she had never imagined herself becoming a model.
That unexpected start soon developed into bookings and professional shoots, but Chan brought interests to the camera that reached well beyond fashion. She completed a degree in psychology and became particularly interested in mental health and access to wellness services. Her own family background informed that interest: she described growing up in a multi-ethnic household where conversations about emotions and psychological well-being were not always commonplace.
Chan hoped to translate her psychology background into practical work by developing holistic wellness retreats directed toward people of color. She saw greater access to mental-health resources as an important goal and connected emotional well-being closely with self-care. When discussing pleasure, she defined it less in terms of indulgence than peace of mind—the feeling of being supported, loved or connected with nature.
Morgan Maher photographed Chan for Playboy’s Pleasure Issue, giving her an opportunity to connect those ideas with the magazine’s theme. Chan regarded posing nude as a form of artistic expression and spoke approvingly of changes she had observed in Playboy over the years. For her, showing the body without treating it as something extraordinary or shameful was part of the reason she wanted to participate in the feature.
Professionally also known as Gilly Chan, she approached her new visibility with a combination of curiosity and composure. Modeling had begun with a single photograph sent to an agency almost experimentally, rather than as the culmination of a long-planned ambition. Her psychology studies remained the more deliberate element of her plans, particularly her stated intention to create wellness retreats designed to improve access to mental-health support.
