In October 1970, Playboy put two identical faces on its cover instead of one and called them "twice blessed." Madeleine and Mary Collinson had been in Britain for barely eighteen months, hadn't landed a single credited film role yet, and still spoke English with accents thick enough that Hammer would later dub over both of them. None of that mattered. The magazine had never run a joint pairing of identical twins as its Playmates of the Month before, and more than fifty years

Three years before she became Lois Lane, Margot Kidder posed for Playboy. That part isn't unusual. What she did with the deal is. She told the magazine's editors she'd do the shoot on one condition: they let her write the words that ran next to the pictures. What she handed in wasn't a flattering bit of copy about herself. It was a blunt, funny, occasionally brutal essay about how Playboy itself had made her feel like a failure as a teenage girl. A quick note before we get in

Bo Derek is mostly remembered for a slow-motion beach run and a head full of cornrows that took over the country in 1979. What gets missed is how much of that image was her own doing. Nobody handed her a persona and told her to live up to it. She built it herself and made her peace with it before anyone else got a say. "What I did as soon as I became famous is, I objectified myself," she said years later. "I thought, well, if this is what it is, I'm going to do it." That's no