Riley Ticotin Bio
Riley Ticotin is an American glamour and fashion curve model. She was born on December 15, 1993, in Los Angeles, California. Playboy named her its January 2020 Playmate at 26. Her appearance came during Playboy's contemporary era of international and digital publishing.
Ticotin has natural breasts, brown eyes and black hair. Her measurements are 39-29-45.
Riley Ticotin entered modeling young, but the industry did not immediately offer a comfortable fit. She began working in her teens and had already collaborated with Jennifer Lopez by 15, yet conventional castings often left her feeling out of place beside much thinner models. At 18, she began working specifically as a curve model, a change that gave her access to opportunities better aligned with her actual body rather than asking her to conform to straight-size expectations.
Her career developed across fashion and commercial modeling, with work connected to brands including ASOS, Torrid and Nordstrom and to markets in Los Angeles, New York, London and Germany. In 2016, she also appeared in a Teen Vogue body-positive video alongside Barbie Ferreira, Jordyn Woods, Hunter McGrady and Olivia Wilson. That project placed her within a wider public conversation about representation several years before Playboy made the same subject central to her Playmate feature.
Ticotin has also spoken about ethnicity as another source of friction in casting rooms. She described being told that she was neither “Latina enough” nor “white enough,” a comment that reflected how narrowly Hollywood could still define mixed-race identities. Raised around the film industry by parents who both worked in it, she had an unusually close view of how those expectations operated from an early age.
When Playboy selected her as Miss January 2020 for its Equality issue, the context mattered. Coverage around the feature identified Ticotin as the first Playmate of her size to appear in the magazine, making the pictorial part of Playboy’s broader attempt to expand its visual definition of glamour. Ticotin herself framed equality in direct terms: “To me, equality means representation.” She hoped younger girls who did not see themselves reflected in media might encounter her feature and feel less excluded.
That is the strongest way to understand Riley Ticotin’s place in the Playboy archive. Her January 2020 appearance connected a long modeling career, curve fashion, body-positive media and her own experience of racial and size-based typecasting. Playboy did not invent that story; it gave it a particularly visible platform at a moment when the magazine was publicly reconsidering who could occupy the centerfold.
