Nearly 100 women shed their clothing at a Scottsdale bar, hoping to attract the attention of Playboy editors on Thursday.
And some of them were ASU students.
Auditions were held at Sanctuary Bar and Nightclub to look for new faces for upcoming Playboy special edition magazines, said Playboy spokeswoman Theresa Hennessey.
The magazine puts out 24 special editions each year, with titles as varied as "College Girls," "Wet and Wild" and "Voluptuous Vixens," said Jeff Cohen, executive editor of the special editions.
"We have all pictures, no articles. We get right to the good stuff," Cohen said.
ASU business and tourism seniors, twin sisters Heidi and Brigitte Weglarz, said they had wanted to audition for Playboy for some time but had not been able to until Thursday.
"There's been other auditions we've wanted to go to, but we never got out there," Heidi Weglarz said.
Editors were not looking for any specific physical type, or even women with previous modeling experience, to pose for Playboy, Hennessey said. Instead, editors will be selecting physically fit, photogenic women who look good in front of the camera to feature in future magazines. Playboy representative and model Holly Laar said there were many promising models in the crowd of hopefuls.
"There's lots of beautiful girls here today. Hopefully some of them will get chosen," Laar said.
For the audition, women were asked to chat with photographers and pose for a few photographs in lingerie or a two-piece bathing suit, "whichever they're more comfortable in," Hennessey said.
Whether women were seeking a spot in the magazine for a one-time modeling stint or to launch a career, Playboy hoped interested women would not be "too intimidated" to audition, Hennessey said.
"It would be a great thing to say, years down the road, that you were in Playboy," she said.
Laura Moreno, a Mesa Community College freshman who plans to transfer to ASU next year to study business, said she hoped her audition would lead to more modeling opportunities.
"I just turned 18, and I want to be famous," Moreno said.
While Moreno previously had been a runway model, she said she was a little nervous to shed her clothing for the camera.
"I'm nervous. I've never done anything like this. I don't even wear lingerie," she said.
Playboy was anticipating between 100 and 200 women to audition Thursday, Hennessey said. By 3 p.m., approximately 70 women had filled out paperwork with the intent to audition, Laar said. However, some of the ASU students were surprised more women were not interested in posing for the magazine.
"I thought there was going to be hundreds of girls here," Brigitte Weglarz said.
"I guess not everyone's interested in posing nude," Heidi Weglarz added.
Reach the reporter at amanda.keim@asu.edu.
