Some things are just unsexy. Larry the Cable Guy having marital relations with egg salad sandwich is unsexy; ISO 9000 is unsexy; Hillary Clinton trying to win votes with cleavage is almost unthinkably unsexy (what is worse is that this actually happened), but in a universe of things that are designed to club the human libido into submission, there is hope. Today, hope comes in the tiny form of perhaps poker's more scandalous figure: Ms. Jennifer "Jennicide" Leigh.
We should have known something was up with her when she threatened to play the World Series of Poker Main Event wearing nothing but lingerie. As far as threats go this is sort of like somebody threatening to kill that fat guy from the show "Lost" by making him eat too many banana splits. This was just a warm up act for her though. Recently Ms. Leigh has allowed herself to be photographed naked for Playboy magazine.
Although this announcement raised the testosterone level in every country where a birka and headscarf are not mandated, Playboy has rarely been a positive career move. For example, Joanie "Chyna" Laurer of WWF/DX fame tossed aside her sports bra for the upscale adult publication. Soon after doing so her career and the Hindenburg suddenly had a lot in common. Today she is on the VH1 show "Celebrity Rehab" trying to deal with alcoholism and addiction to prescription pain meds. Kristy Swanson who most of us know as the original "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" dropped off the Hollywood map after her Playboy shoot. Today she is doing Weight Watchers commercials. Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, Sable, Katarina Witt, Cindy Margolis, Tia Carrere, Daryl Hannah, etc. have all bared it all for Playboy photographers and have all been relegated to the status of a trivia question.
Hopefully Jennifer can make it work, but to date the only model who has gone on to have a dominant career after her Playboy appearance was Marilyn Monroe. Time will tell what would it mean for Jennicide.
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