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Victoria Silvstedt
[IPA: vɪk'tuːriːja 'sɪlvstɛt] (born September 19, 1974 in Skellefteå, Sweden) is
a Swedish fashion model and actress.
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Playboy centerfold
appearance December
1996
Birthplace Skellefteå,
Sweden
Birthdate September 19,
1974 (age 32)
Measurements 35" 90cm -
25" 63cm - 37" 93cm
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10
in)
Weight 63 kg (139 lb)
Preceded by Ulrika
Ericsson
Succeeded by Jami
Ferrell
Playmate of the Year
(PMOY) for 1997
PMOY preceded by Stacy
Sanches
PMOY succeeded by Karen
McDoug
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Career
Silvstedt was a member
of the Swedish National Ski Team, ranking as high as fourth among her Olympic
teammates in the Super-Giant Slalom, but a shoulder injury ended her skiing
career at 16. As a sports person, she was a bit of a tom-boy, who supposedly had
never worn high heels, but her mother and sister secretly entered her into the
1993 Miss Sweden Beauty Pageant.
Silvstedt was the first
runner-up in Miss Sweden, and went on to represent Sweden in the Miss World
contest in South Africa, reaching the final eight contestants. Resultantly,
Silvstedt was signed by a Parisian modeling agent and began a career in high
fashion, working for various companies including Chanel, Christian Dior, Loris
Azzaro, Givenchy, Valentino, and Giorgio Armani.
After being approached
directly by Hugh Hefner, she appeared as a centerfold in the December 1996 issue
of Playboy and was subsequently named Playmate of the Year in 1997. As a
European, not being aware of the wider distribution and publicity effect of
Playboy, she suddenly broke into the North American market. She has been
featured in almost countless magazines, including GQ, MAXIM, FHM, and GEAR.
In 2001 Victoria
recorded an album called Runaway girl, published by EMI, which went gold in
Europe, with the hit singles, Hello, Hey and Rocksteady love.
She became a
spokesmodel for Guess? Jeans, following in the footsteps of former Guess models,
Eva Herzigova, Anna Nicole Smith, and Shana Zadrick. Victoria made appearances
in the motion pictures: Boat Trip, The Independent, BASEketball, and Out Cold.
She was already well recognised in the UK when she took on a new career hosting,
The Late Show on Virgin Radio, and as a guest host on the TV show Eurotrash. She
has been in the American TV shows Melrose Place, and MTV’s The Real World.
She also has worked a
lot for the Italian TV hosting and attending to several tv shows.
Like many Glamour
models and Playmates before her, she is trying to branch out into acting and
business. Having taken some guest appearances in previous Hollywood films
playing up to her Swedish-Blonde "Inga" character, she is now acting in lead
roles in European films mainly based in Italy, and taking to the stage in North
America [1] In February 2006 she launched her own lingerie range during London
Fashion Week [2]
In August, 2006, she is
set to be the hostess in the French version of the Wheel of Fortune on TF1,
alongside Christophe Dechavanne.
Personal life
Silvstedt married
WCBS-TV Sports telecaster, Chris Wragge, in June 2000 at Tuxedo Park Country
Club in Tuxedo, New York. The couple currently live on Manhattan in New York
City.
In June 2006, Victoria
and Chris threatened legal action against Sky News for slander, after pictures
of her in Sardinia went onto the Internet. Sky News had to remove the page [3]
Trivia
Measurements:
36C-25-36, Height: 5' 10", Weight: 63Kg
She says that she
speaks five languages, including: Swedish, English, some French, and Italian -
plus some Norwegian and Eskimo-Inuit. (Note that Swedish and Norwegian are
mutually intelligible languages.)
She says that when she
was 16, she competed in a Best Fake Orgasm contest at a bar. The contestants
were Silvstedt and 10 guys, and the winner got a brand-new TV. When she came
home, she told her mother she won it at a game of Bingo [4]
She had a music
contract with EMI, and recorded one album with that company that didn't sell
very well. Says singing is her favorite hobby activity. [5]
In 2002, Playboy
released a limited edition doll based on her likeness, and they emphasised that
it is an anatomically correct model of her body.
In 2005, Victoria came
second to actress Jennifer Ellison in a competition to find the Sexiest Blonde
in the World by the readers of Nuts magazine.
She is vegetarian.
Appearances in "Playboy" special editions
Playboy's Nude
Playmates June 1997 - cover.
Playboy's Playmate
Review Vol. 13 July 1997 - cover, pages 1, 84-93.
Playboy's Book of
Lingerie Vol. 58 November 1997 - Michael Bisco, pages 28-31.
Playboy's Book of
Lingerie Vol. 59 January 1998 - Mizuno, pages 61-65.
Playboy's Wet & Wild
April 1998.
Playboy's Girls of
Summer May 1998.
Playboy's Body Language
October 1998.
Playboy's Playmate
Tests November 1998 - cover.
Playboy's Playmates in
Bed Vol. 3 February 1999 - pages 82-85.
Playboy's Book of
Lingerie Vol. 67 May 1999 - Mizuno, cover & pages 1, 32-33.
Playboy's Girls of
Summer June 1999.
Playboy's Celebrating
Centerfolds Vol. 3 October 1999.
Playboy's Voluptuous
Vixens Vol. 3 October 1999.
Playboy's Book of
Lingerie Vol. 75 September 2000.
Playboy's Nude
Playmates April 2001 - pages 44-45.
Playboy's Girls of
Summer May 2001.
Playboy's Sexy 100
February 2003.
Playboy's Blondes,
Brunettes & Redheads June 2003.
References
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^ http://centerstage.net/stumped/articles/victoria-silvstedt.html
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^ http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-02/24/content_4221411.htm
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http://www.bastardly.com/archives/2006/06/19/confirmed-victoria-silvstedt-is-a-prostituting-whore
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http://www.fhmus.com/girls_girls_of_fhm_article.asp?cnl_id=1&stn_id=1&idx_id=319&gofp_slot=7
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http://centerstage.net/stumped/articles/victoria-silvstedt.html
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