She was a Teenage Model
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Barbi Benton started modeling when she was 16-years-old and continued racking up credits while attending UCLA. In 1968, Benton landed a role as an extra on Hugh Hefner’s TV show Playboy After Dark. Hefner noticed her studying in-between takes and introduced himself.
“He came up to ask me what I was so diligently working on,” she said. “I told him I was studying for school. He liked the fact that I was a co-ed and that I went to UCLA. We were talking about my schooling and what I was studying, and he asked me if I would go out with him.”
