Merritt Cabal Bio
Merritt Cabal is an American Glamour and nude model. She was born on July 14, 1977, in Harahan, Louisiana. Playboy featured her as Cybergirl of the Month in June 2002 at 24. She later received the Cybergirl of the Year title for 2003. The feature was part of Playboy's web-first model program.
Cabal has enhanced breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 34-24-34.
Merritt Cabal came to Playboy from behind a bar rather than from an established modeling career. Working as a bartender in Louisiana, she attended a Playboy casting call in New Orleans and soon began appearing in the company’s growing mix of Cyber Club and Special Editions features. The opportunity opened a route into modeling that would carry her from a regional casting to one of Playboy’s top online titles of the period.
Her first Cyber Club recognition came with Cybergirl of the Week, followed by Cybergirl of the Month in June 2002. Cabal also appeared in several Playboy Special Editions and in Mardi Gras-themed features, giving her a presence beyond the website alone. That combination of online voting and newsstand appearances was typical of Playboy’s early digital expansion, when models could move easily between the Cyber Club and the company’s many specialty publications.
The biggest distinction arrived when Cabal was named Cybergirl of the Year for 2003. She described the honor as a “chance of a lifetime,” and Playboy marked it with a new pictorial shot on Mexico’s Pacific Coast. Cabal remembered the setting simply: it was beautiful. The location gave the annual feature a scale far removed from the Louisiana bar where her story with Playboy had begun.
Her career with the brand was therefore built in stages rather than around a single breakthrough shoot. A casting call led to Cyber Club recognition, Special Editions work and eventually the annual Cybergirl title. That progression also made her one of the early examples of a model whose Playboy identity was shaped as much by the company’s online audience as by its traditional print operation.
Cabal’s Playboy years have an appealingly straightforward arc. She started with ordinary work in Louisiana, took a chance on a casting, and found herself traveling for shoots and appearing across multiple Playboy formats. The 2003 Cybergirl of the Year title was the clear high point, but the Special Editions and earlier Cyber Club features show that the relationship had already become substantial before that final vote.
