Riley Ticotin

Riley Ticotin Bio

December 15, 1993 / Sagittarius / Age 32

Riley Ticotin is an American model best known as Playboy’s Playmate of the Month for January 2020. Born on December 15, 1993, she is associated with the new generation of curve and body-positive models who helped expand the visibility of different body types in fashion, beauty, and men’s lifestyle media. Public profiles list her birthplace as California, while a Fox News interview described her as a Puerto Rican model from Calabasas, California.

Ticotin’s modeling career began when she was still a teenager. In a 2020 interview, she said she started modeling at 15 after being approached in malls and later submitting photos to an agency with a friend. According to the same interview, she was later dropped by that agency because she “never got skinny enough,” a detail that became part of her public story as a curve model working against narrow industry standards.

Her wider fashion visibility grew in the mid-2010s. In October 2016, Ticotin appeared in Teen Vogue’s body-positive video feature alongside Barbie Ferreira, Jordyn Woods, Hunter McGrady, and Olivia Wilson. The project focused on comments and stereotypes plus-size models were tired of hearing, and Ticotin’s participation placed her within a prominent group of young models connected to the body-positivity conversation of that period.

Before and after her Playboy appearance, Ticotin worked as a fashion and commercial model. Public profile data connects her with agencies and markets including Los Angeles, New York, London, and Germany, and lists brands such as ASOS, Torrid, and Nordstrom among her modeling credits. Her current Women Management Los Angeles profile lists her at 5’9” / 175 cm, with brown hair and brown eyes.

In January 2020, Riley Ticotin became Playboy’s Playmate of the Month. Fox News reported that Playboy presented her selection as a milestone, describing her as the first Playmate of her size to appear in the magazine’s pages. The feature was tied to Playboy’s broader equality theme and positioned Ticotin not only as a glamour model, but also as a symbol of broader representation in a publication historically associated with narrow beauty standards.

Ticotin’s career is notable because it connects several overlapping spaces: commercial fashion, curve modeling, body-positive media, and Playboy’s late-print-era transformation. Her Playboy title remains her best-known mainstream credit, but her earlier Teen Vogue appearance and fashion work show that her public image was already shaped by conversations about size, confidence, and representation before she became January 2020 Playmate.