‘I used to be shy Disney princess — then I stripped for Playboy and by no means appeared again’

A former Playboy mannequin labored as a Disney princess earlier than being “blacklisted” by the corporate after stripping off to look within the raunchy journal.

Kara Monaco, from Lakeland, Florida, was “shy” and “conservative” rising up and after transferring to Orlando as a teen she landed a job working as a forged member at Disney World. But in 2005, she left her family and friends shocked after going bare in a Playboy shoot that may see her named 2006 Playmate of the Year.

In a latest look on the Girls Next Level podcast, Kara, now 40, instructed Hugh Hefner’s former girlfriends Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt that she “loved” working at Disney World. Recalling her roles Kara revealed she began out enjoying Alice in Wonderland and Wendy from Peter Pan at 16 earlier than occurring to safe roles because the princesses.

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She stated: “I did Cinderella, Snow White, Ariel, Blue Fairy from Pinocchio and Jane from Tarzan so a total of seven characters.” Kara described it as “the best job she ever had” however quickly after graduating from highschool, she set her sights on modelling whereas working as a bartender in downtown Orlando.

It was throughout this time she was first launched to the world of Playboy when the journal was looking for “America’s sexiest bartender” in 2004 — they usually selected her. After heading to New York City to shoot for the competitors, Kara was declared the winner and in 2005 she was awarded the celebrated title of Playmate of the Month.

When her pictorial got here out in June 2005, Kara’s family and friends have been left shocked to study that she’d posed bare. She defined: “I’d say they were shocked because for me…I’m pretty conservative and shy so it was so far out of my comfort zone so I think most people that knew me were just really shocked but everybody was really supportive.”

But her former employer was removed from impressed by the racy shoot. She added: “Disney did not take well to it obviously, they were not happy. I think they even called the rep for the Magic Kingdom and wanted him to comment and he was like ‘no comment'”.

Kara’s former Disney colleagues instructed her she would not be welcomed again to work on the resort, however she claims it did not trouble her. “Some of my friends that I worked with at Disney were like ‘Oh you’re definitely blacklisted’ and I’m like ‘Oh well’,” she stated.

Kara continued to climb up the ranks at Playboy and in 2006 was topped Playmate of the Year in what she recalled was a vicious competitors among the many different Playmates.

She defined: “Girls that were your closest friends, or that you thought were your closest friends that year because you were Playmates the same year, just start going against you because everybody wants Playmate of the Year and it gets really nasty to be honest.

“It’s kind of sad because we should just be supporting each other.” But identical to the opposite women, Kara was determined for the celebrated title.

“I wanted it really bad, I was like if I’m gonna do this and I’m going to be naked for the whole world I want to go as far as I can go, so if that’s getting Playmate of the Year then I want to be Playmate of the Year,” she stated. Naked photographs of Kara appeared on 10 pages of Playboy’s June 2006 subject and her Playmate of the Year pictorial took inspiration from her early beginnings with a princess theme.

Kara confessed she wasn’t too happy about it initially. She stated: “At the time I wasn’t crazy about it and I think it’s just because I had done Disney so much and I was wanting to get away from it and it was sort of like I was pushed back into that.

“But it was such a lovely pictorial I am unable to complain. It was gorgeous and searching again now I’m pleased that it was the theme that it was.”

After being selected as a Playmate, Kara was able to travel the world for “unimaginable jobs” with the journal. She went on to look in episodes of The Girls Next Door, which adopted the lives of the ladies residing with Hugh Hefner on the Playboy Mansion.

As effectively as her racy modelling, Kara carved out a profession for herself as a actuality TV star, showing in Keeping Up with the Kardashians in addition to the 14th season of the US Big Brother. In the meantime, she lived within the Bunny Ranch throughout the road from the long-lasting Playboy Mansion.

But in 2013, her Playboy expertise got here crashing down when the Bunny Ranch was put up on the market and the Playmates residing there have been instructed to pack their baggage. “We literally got 30 days, we were basically told ‘We’re selling the Bunny House you have 30 days so you better get your stuff and get out,'” Kara recalled.

These days Kara is a married mum of 1 and works as an occasion planner in Florida. She revealed she’s nonetheless “obsessed” with Disney as her six-year-old daughter loves princesses.

And whereas she not has any affiliation with Playboy, Kara has developed “lifelong friendships” with numerous the ladies she lived with. She stated: “I’m still friends with so many Playmates, it is like a sisterhood. I know we all say that but it truly is, I mean you bond with these girls and you work with them all the time and you live with them.”