[ed. And now something Blue, as the wedding has apparently been canceled.]
by Abby Aguirre
There are May-December marriages, and then there is Crystal Harris and Hugh Hefner, twenty-four and eighty-four, respectively, whose engagement, when it was announced by Hefner on Christmas Eve, via Twitter, attracted particular interest. The founder of Playboy told his hundreds of thousands of followers that he gave Harris, 2009’s Miss December, “a ring,” leaving open the question of what sort of ring it was.
“He did it on purpose,” Harris said on a recent Monday morning. “Once he had everyone, like, hanging for a day, he wrote, ‘To clear things up, the ring I gave Crystal was an engagement ring.’ ” Harris, who wore a black tank top, a white miniskirt, and black boots, was sitting at a glass table in a small room off the Playboy Mansion’s kitchen, eating scrambled egg whites before a day of bridal errands. “And then all of a sudden it was everywhere,” she said. “I had, like, fans in Sweden, Slovakia, Russia—everywhere.”
A little more than two years ago, Harris was a senior at San Diego State University. She and a friend drove up to the mansion for a Halloween party, where, dressed as a French maid, she caught Hefner’s eye. Two weeks later, she quit school and moved into the mansion. “I was a psychology major, and I didn’t want to be a psychologist,” she said. “I thought it would be cool to come up here and just, you know, hang with Hef. School will always be there, I guess.”
She starred in the following season of “The Girls Next Door,” a reality show about the women who live at the mansion. In her December centerfold, she wore a black bowler hat, a sprig of holly tucked in its band. (Turn-ons: “Real-life Prince Charmings.” Turn-offs: “Muscle heads with too much hair product.”) She is recording an album, developing a makeup brand, and designing a line of workout clothes. She tweets frequently. (Twitter bio: “Entrepreneur/Playmate/Hefs girl.”)
It was Harris who set up Hefner’s Twitter account. At first, Hefner wrote his messages on paper, counting the characters himself, and Harris would tweet them. Now he uses an iPad.
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by Abby Aguirre
There are May-December marriages, and then there is Crystal Harris and Hugh Hefner, twenty-four and eighty-four, respectively, whose engagement, when it was announced by Hefner on Christmas Eve, via Twitter, attracted particular interest. The founder of Playboy told his hundreds of thousands of followers that he gave Harris, 2009’s Miss December, “a ring,” leaving open the question of what sort of ring it was.
“He did it on purpose,” Harris said on a recent Monday morning. “Once he had everyone, like, hanging for a day, he wrote, ‘To clear things up, the ring I gave Crystal was an engagement ring.’ ” Harris, who wore a black tank top, a white miniskirt, and black boots, was sitting at a glass table in a small room off the Playboy Mansion’s kitchen, eating scrambled egg whites before a day of bridal errands. “And then all of a sudden it was everywhere,” she said. “I had, like, fans in Sweden, Slovakia, Russia—everywhere.”A little more than two years ago, Harris was a senior at San Diego State University. She and a friend drove up to the mansion for a Halloween party, where, dressed as a French maid, she caught Hefner’s eye. Two weeks later, she quit school and moved into the mansion. “I was a psychology major, and I didn’t want to be a psychologist,” she said. “I thought it would be cool to come up here and just, you know, hang with Hef. School will always be there, I guess.”
She starred in the following season of “The Girls Next Door,” a reality show about the women who live at the mansion. In her December centerfold, she wore a black bowler hat, a sprig of holly tucked in its band. (Turn-ons: “Real-life Prince Charmings.” Turn-offs: “Muscle heads with too much hair product.”) She is recording an album, developing a makeup brand, and designing a line of workout clothes. She tweets frequently. (Twitter bio: “Entrepreneur/Playmate/Hefs girl.”)
It was Harris who set up Hefner’s Twitter account. At first, Hefner wrote his messages on paper, counting the characters himself, and Harris would tweet them. Now he uses an iPad.
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