Carmen Electra wears Playboy bunny ears on red carpet at Abbey event
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Carmen Electra is revisiting her Playboy roots with her latest red carpet appearance.
The actress and model posed in a leopard print dress, which she paired with a matching pair of bunny ears, while walking the red carpet at The Abbey Food & Bar’s 35th Anniversary event.
She also accessorized with a bow tie, cufflinks, sheer black tights and a black bag, as well as jewelry and black high heels.
The model chose to wear her long blonde hair straight and used dramatic silver eyeshadow and thick lashes in her makeup.
Electra stepped back to her Playboy roots in her latest red carpet appearance. (Steve Granitz/FilmMagic)
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Although she was never considered an official Playmate, Electra appeared in the magazine five times and even wore the iconic bunny costume in one of them.
Her first appearance in the magazine was a nude photoshoot for the May 1996 issue, and she posed for a second time a year later in June 1997.
“When I saw the photos… I had to pinch myself. I couldn’t believe that I was actually in the magazine and that I was going to be a part of such an iconic time, a part of Playboy in general,” she told Fox News Digital in November 2019. “Marilyn Monroe started with Playboy, and these are women that I admire and am really inspired by. So yeah, Playboy was a lot of fun… And by the way, I’m not shy at all anymore.”
Electra’s appearance in the magazine pages eventually caught the attention of Hollywood executives, which led to her being cast in the popular series “Baywatch.” He joined the show in 1997 for its eighth season.
Carmen Electra on the set of “Baywatch” in 1997.
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At her ’90s concert in September 2024, Electra talked about her big break and what her life was like before she was discovered, stating that she was “homeless in Los Angeles” and “didn’t come from a rich family or anything.”
“I knew where I needed to be, in New York or Los Angeles,” he said, according to People . “So there was a lot of struggle and I didn’t really know what to do. But I started to try some things and really come out of my shell. That’s the beginning.”
She has since shifted the focus of her career and joined subscription-based social media website OnlyFans in 2022, telling People at the time that joining the platform felt like a “no-brainer.”
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Electra is now focusing on OnlyFans. (Getty Images for Kevin Tachman/amfAR/amfAR)
According to her, the platform allows her to be “a little closer” to her fans, adding that “people will do what they want to do with your photos anyway,” so she took advantage of the opportunity to “check them out.”
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“I felt like, ‘Yes, I need to do this,'” Electra explained to People at the time. “For once, I have the opportunity to be my own boss and share my own creative vision with my fans without having to have someone standing next to me telling me, ‘Don’t do this, don’t do that. Cover it up.'”
