While flipping through the November issue of Playboy magazine, some may recognize a familiar face (and body) — University student Sophia Beretta was featured in the magazine’s “Girls of the SEC” pictorial.
Beretta, a business senior, bared all to represent LSU in the annual college issue that hit newsstands Oct. 14.
“Playboy has featured the most beautiful women since the magazine started, so when I was offered the chance to represent my school, I instantly said yes,” Beretta said in an e-mail to The Daily Reveille. “It is a tremendous personality.”
“A lot of people have the misconception that we’re just looking for blondes or the cookie-cutter type, but that’s definitely not the case,” O’Donnell said. “We want women of different ethnicities, women who have different looks, women who are more athletic and women who are involved more in theater and music and Playboy.”
She said she doesn’t feel uncomfortable knowing some of her classmates and teachers who picked up the issue have seen her naked.
“The body is a beautiful thing and meant to be seen,” Beretta said.
Beretta said she thinks her appearance in Playboy reflects well on the University, but some students have differing opinions.
“It’s not a good representation of LSU or the girls here. It looks like we’re doing something wrong,” said Haylie Fernandez, kinesiology sophomore.
Fernandez said she’d view Beretta in a different way if the two were classmates.
Dylan Malbrough, pre-nursing freshman, said Beretta’s feature creates “interesting publicity” for the University.
“It wouldn’t be positive on the news, and I don’t see how it would be a good image for LSU,” he said. “But I’d feel lucky if she was my classmate because that’s kind of a big