Playboy will feature a transgender Playmate in its November issue, the magazine announced Wednesday.
French model Ines Rau, 26, will be the centerfold in the first issue to publish since Playboy’s founder Hugh Hefner died in September.
While many women pose nude in the magazine, there is only one Playmate each month, who is featured as the centerfold. Rau is no stranger to the magazine, and previously posed fully nude in a May 2014 issue.
In a statement, Rau said the 2014 spread was how she celebrated coming out as transgender.
“I lived a long time without saying I was transgender,” Rau said in a statement. “I dated a lot and almost forgot. I was scared of never finding a boyfriend and being seen as weird. Then I was like, ‘you know, you should just be who you are. It’s a salvation to speak the truth…
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