Free Preview: Playmate of the Month April 1978 - Pamela Jean Bryant
Those of you with eagle eyes and elephant memories will recognize Pamela Jean Bryant as one of the coeds featured in our September 1977 pictorial <i>Girls of the Big Ten</i>. She almost didn't make it: The story of how Miss April came to our attention demonstrates the old adage that some days you can eat the bear and some days the bear eats you. Relates Pamela: "I have never regarded myself as particularly beautiful. I didn't think anyone else did either. Only a few days before Playboy photographer David Chan showed up on the campus of Indiana University I had applied for a modeling job in a local fashion show and had been turned down. But I refuse to let setbacks get to me, so I responded to the ad David had put in the student newspaper, asking for girls to try out for a <i>Girls of the Big Ten</i> feature. I was surprised when, during our interview, he suggested that I was Playmate material." Over the next few months, as we became better acquainted with Pamela, we grew to respect her resilience and self-determination. "I've always been an optimist," she says. "I never give in to other people's opinions. I had a rather mixed-up childhood, shuttled from one foster home to another. I had seven mothers and seven fathers, and all of them told me my faults, my guilts, their idea of who I was. I've been told I'm lost and lonely by lost and lonely people. I've stopped listening to others and started listening to myself. I'm proud of the dent I've made in the world to date. I'm g...
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