Bridget Marquardt Bio
Bridget Marquardt is an American Adult model, actress, and television personality. Born Bridget Christina Sandmeier on September 25, 1974, in Tillamook, Oregon, she has also been credited as Bridget Christina Marquardt. She appeared as a Playboy Muse in November 2005 at 31. Her appearance came in the 2000s, as Playboy's print tradition began to share space with an expanding online presence.
Marquardt has natural breasts, hazel eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 34-25-36.
Bridget Marquardt pursued Playboy with unusual persistence long before she became one of the company’s most recognizable television personalities. Friends first encouraged her to consider posing for the magazine, and she eventually entered Playboy’s Millennium Playmate search in 1998. After completing undergraduate studies in communications and later earning a master’s degree in communications from the University of the Pacific, she moved to Los Angeles in 2001 and began taking local modeling jobs and small acting roles.
Two unsuccessful Playboy tests did not end her interest in the magazine. Marquardt began attending events at the Playboy Mansion, became friendly with women in Hugh Hefner’s circle and was eventually invited to move into the Mansion as one of his girlfriends in 2002. Although she never became a Playmate of the Month, her association with Playboy grew far beyond a conventional centerfold career.
Television transformed that association into national recognition. Marquardt starred alongside Holly Madison and Kendra Wilkinson on The Girls Next Door, which followed their lives around the Mansion. The trio also appeared together in Playboy pictorials, including the November 2005, September 2006 and March 2008 issues. Marquardt additionally appeared as herself on Curb Your Enthusiasm and Entourage and had a small role in The House Bunny.
Her Playboy visibility supported projects that reflected interests of her own. She hosted the Bridget & Wednesday Friday Show on Playboy Radio, competed on The Search for the Next Elvira and explored a long-standing fascination with paranormal phenomena. After leaving the Mansion era behind, she hosted the Travel Channel series Bridget’s Sexiest Beaches, combining television presenting with the enthusiasm for travel that viewers had already seen on The Girls Next Door.
Marquardt later developed that paranormal interest into the podcast Ghost Magnet with Bridget Marquardt and also reunited professionally with Madison for Girls Next Level, a podcast revisiting their experiences during the Playboy years. She has additionally worked on animal-related media projects, including contributions to Yahoo’s Animal Nation. Her academic background remained unusually substantial for a reality-TV personality: before becoming widely known through Playboy, she had already earned an associate degree, a bachelor’s degree in communications and a master’s degree in the same field.
