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The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1989, the 35th anniversary year of the publication. ''Playboy'' magazine names its Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year.

January

Fawna MacLaren (born December 18, 1965, in Santa Monica, California) is an American model and actress. She was chosen as ''Playboy's'' Playmate of the Month for January 1989.

She was selected as Playboy's 35th Anniversary Playmate after a nationwide search. She was paid $35,000 for her centerfold. Several years later, she appeared in one of ''Playboys ''Wet & Wild'' home videos.

February

Simone Fleurice Eden (born Simone Howe on June 14, 1970, in Arcadia, California) is an American model and actress. She was chosen as ''Playboy's'' Playmate of the Month for its February 1989 issue. She is the first Playmate whose mother (Carol Eden) had also been a Playmate of the Month: as a result, the two appeared together on an episode of the 2006 revival of the TV series '' I've Got A Secret''.

March

Laurie Jo Wood (born June 23, 1967, in Orange, California) is an American model and actress. She was chosen as ''Playboy's'' Playmate of the Month for its March 1989 issue.

April

Jennifer Lyn Jackson (March 21, 1969 – January 22, 2010) of Cleveland, Ohio, was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for April 1989. She was also one of three finalists for the magazine's 35th Anniversary pictorial. Outtakes from her Playmate pictorial, which was shot by Arny Freytag, appeared in ''Playboy Special Editions'' several times following her centerfold appearance.

Jackson graduated from North Olmsted High School in 1986 and went on to study business and finance at Kent State University.

A long time drug addict, on January 22, 2010, Jackson was found dead from a heroin overdose by her husband, James Thompson, in their trailer park home in Westlake, Ohio.

May

Monique Noel (born April 28, 1967, in Salem Oregon) is a glamour model and actress. She was chosen as ''Playboy's'' Playmate of the Month for May 1989. Her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley.

June

Tawnni Cable (born 1 May 1967 in Salem, Oregon) is an American model and actress. She was chosen as ''Playboy's'' Playmate of the Month for June, 1989 and has appeared in numerous ''Playboy'' videos. She played a small role in an episode of ''The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'' and appeared with four other Playmates on an all-star episode of ''Family Feud''.

July

Erika Eleniak (born September 29, 1969) is an American ''Playboy'' Playmate and actress, perhaps best known for her role in ''Baywatch'' as Shauni McClain. Eleniak had several roles in television before her Playmate selection. ''Playboy'' featured her on two covers and later as the centerfold in the July 1989 issue.

August

Jennifer Ellen Amoroso Smith (April 5, 1968 – February 27, 2024), better known as Gianna Amore, was an American model and actress. She was chosen as ''Playboy's'' Playmate of the Month for August, 1989 and appeared in ''Playboy'' videos. She was of Italian descent. Amore died on February 27, 2024, at the age of 55.

September

Karin and Mirjam van Breeschooten (born 15 November 1970 in Rotterdam, Netherlands) are twin sisters who were ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmates of the Month for September 1989.''Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds ''(Chronicle Books 2008) ()

October

Karen Foster (born April 21, 1965, in Lufkin, Texas) is an American model and actress. She was chosen as ''Playboy's'' Playmate of the Month for October, 1989.

November

Reneé Tenison (born December 2, 1968, in Caldwell, Idaho) is an American model and actress.

Reneé has three older brothers and an identical twin sister, Rosie, who also works as a model. Rosie and Renee posed in the August 2002 issue of ''Playboy'' together.

Tenison appeared as the Playmate of the Month in the November 1989 issue of ''Playboy'' magazine and was subsequently named Playmate of the Year for 1990, the first PMOY of African American descent. In 2001, she was selected as one of the ten sexiest women of the year by the readers of ''Black Men'' magazine.

In May 2017, at the age of 48, Tenison duplicated her Playmate of the Year cover along with her cohorts Kimberley Conrad, Candace Collins, Lisa Matthews, Cathy St. George, Charlotte Kemp, and Monique St. Pierre nearly three decades on.

December

Petra Charlotte Verkaik ( ; born November 4, 1966) is a model. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she attended acting classes. She needed a head shot and did a trade with a photographer to get free headshots in exchange for modeling for him. The modeling photographs were clothed. The photographer sent her photographs to ''Playboy'' who called her to work with them. In an interview with the ''Las Vegas Sun'', Verkaik expressed that she never wanted to do nude modeling and that she thought "all those girls were whores and sluts." Three months later, she was Playmate of the Month for December 1989 after first appearing in the ''Great Playmate Hunt Special Edition'' in February 1989.

Verkaik started her own production company in 1995, called Pin-Up Girls, making her the first ''Playboy'' model to start her own production company instead of producing videos strictly through ''Playboy''. Pin-Up Girls produced videos and calendars. Starting the company left her $60,000 in debt. In 1997, she was named Playboy Model of the Year. In 2001, the readers of Playboy voted her "the sexiest Playmate of the 1980s." Verkaik made numerous minor movie and television appearances. In the early 1990s, Verkaik had minor roles in ''Pyrates'' and '' Love Potion No. 9''. In 1996, Verkaik starred in an episode of '' Married... with Children''. In 1999, Verkaik starred in the science fiction comedy ''Galaxy Quest'', but her role was ultimately cut from the theatrical release.

In January 2002, Verkaik attended the Foothill High School prom in Tustin, California, with a 17-year-old high school student named Toby Hocking. Hocking wrote a college essay, and Verkaik was given it by a friend who told her that he could not get a prom date. Verkaik read the college essay and offered to be Hocking's date, which garnered publicity. The headmaster of Foothill High School had no issue with Verkaik being Hocking's date, provided she did not wear anything "strapless or sheer".

See also

* List of people in Playboy 1980–1989

References

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