Lexie Karlsen

• Alexandria Karlsen

Lexie Karlsen is an American model who is the only one to be a Playboy Playmate, Penthouse Pet, Perfect 10 model and represented by mainstream FORD Agency FORD/RBA as well. Currently, she is a host on "The Nude View", broadcast on pay channel Vavoom launching July 1st. Karlsen also hosts a dating and sex advice show on Vavoom's website, a takeoff on her book, "The Divorced Guy's Guide to Dating." With a background in journalism and finance, Karlsen has been described as a brainy adult model. At age 15, Karlsen began writing for then what was The Phoenix Gazette / Arizona Republic and also Tribune Newspapers in Arizona as a student correspondent reporter. At age 18, Karlsen obtained her Series 6 and Series 63 licenses and worked for Vanguard before beginning to model full time. She began posing nude on a "amateur" web site under the name "Rachelle", and then under her own name for Perfect 10 magazine in their summer 1997 premiere issue, and was selected Playboy Playmate of the Month for March, 1999. Her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag and Stephen Wayda. Lexie has appeared in several Playboy videos and special editions, working steadily for Playboy for more than three years following her centerfold appearance. In 2001, Karlsen started writing a regular column on love and dating for Perfect 10. Karlsen has also been featured in the November 2002 issue of Stuff magazine in the layout titled "A Day in the Life of a Centerfold". Karlsen appeared in Playboy's rival publication, Penthouse magazine, as its Pet of the Month for July 2006. Her appearance in Penthouse made her only the third adult model to be selected as both a Playboy Playmate and a Penthouse Pet, following only Linn Thomas and Victoria Zdrok. Karlsen has appeared in numerous mainstream magazines, including Stuff (US), on the cover of Stuff (UK), in Maxim, on Beverly Hills 213, in Scottsdale magazine, in Phoenix magazine, and numerous other catalogs, editorial and print. She is one of the few nude models who also works extensively in the mainstream market. In addition to her work with men's magazines, Karlsen was regularly featured on the FX channel's The X Show, UPN's Battle Dome, and as a try-out Barker Beauty on five episodes of CBS's The Price Is Right show. She has also worked on shows such as Ripley's Believe It or Not, Talk Soup, The Late Late Show, The Tonight Show, and others. She has also authored a book titled The Divorced Guy's Guide to Dating - How to Meet More Women plus many other columns and articles for other magazines.