Lauren Anderson Says She Fainted On Her First N*de Photoshoot

Lauren Anderson, a former Playboy Playmate, has recounted how she blacked out during her first n*de photoshoot for the company.

Her journey began after she was cast in the brand’s 2002 reality show “Girl Next Door: The Search for a Playboy Centerfold,” in which 12 women battled for the title of Playmate of the Month.

The final six contestants were asked to pose naked for the broadcast, which resulted in a ‘scary’ moment for her.

She won the competition and was featured on the cover of Playboy’s July 2002 issue, earning her a cash prize of $25,000.

Lauren Anderson, now 43, appears in Season 2 of the A&E docuseries “Secrets of Playboy,” which starts on Monday. She auditioned for her first job with the magazine as a senior at the University of Florida, posing topless for the 2001 “Girls of the SEC” edition.

“I actually blacked out. I wanted to be really skinny, and I hadn’t eaten anything,” she told The Post. “Fortunately, the makeup people were all there and kind of caught me before I actually fainted.”

“I kind of went as a joke just to kind of see what it was all about and they selected me … even though I said I wouldn’t do fully n*de,” said Anderson, who worked for Playboy until 2012.

In the docuseries, the blonde beauty, who described herself back then as “shy” and “not a party girl,” is shown rewatching a scene from “Girl Next Door” in which she poses on all fours.

“I know how insecure I was and how I was feeling at the time and that wasn’t who I was, being s*xy and wearing s*xy clothes,” she explained.

“And so it just kind of makes me cringe,” she admitted. “But I wouldn’t change a thing because it turned me into who I am now, which is a very confident person and I embrace my body and all its flaws and before I didn’t do that, I covered it up.”

“My mom always taught me to write thank you notes, so I actually wrote him (referring to Hugh Hefner, late play oy founder) a thank you note, thanking him for selecting me the winner of the show and when I went back to L.A. and saw him, he told me no Playmate had ever done that,” she explained.

After “Girl Next Door,” Lauren Anderson dropped out of college and relocated to Los Angeles to work for Playboy, where she did things like throwing parties and benefit events and giving tours of the Playboy Mansion, which she said featured this opulent amenity.

“You could order food 24 hours a day and they would make you whatever you wanted,” she recalled.

She refuted the rumour that the residence was full of old men.

“That’s not the case at all. A lot of young Hollywood was there,” said Anderson, who didn’t give any notable names, except for one, basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

“I met him and it was like, ‘Holy moley! You’re like, biggest person I’ve ever seen!’” she said.

One of the subjects covered in the docuseries is the women of Playboy discovering their images on p*rn sites, which Anderson has experienced.

“It doesn’t overly bother me. I never did any p*rn. I was never s*xually active with anybody on film, so it’s really just showing your n*ked body, which, I did that,” she explained.

The worst part about Anderson’s previous job is that total strangers refer to her as a “wh*re,” she added, adding that she proudly uses “former Playboy Playmate” on her social media pages.

“If I have anything to say, any kind of voice at all on anything, whether it be politics or anything that’s happening … that’s the first thing people come back to,” she said. “That I’m slutty, a wh*re, I’m stupid, I’m a bimbo.”

“That’s the worst part about Playboy for me, is the way society treats us.”