Amanda Beard Poses Nude for Playboy
Amanda Beard posed nude for Playboy in 2007 and PETA in 2008. The Olympic swimmer and model set the path for other athletes like Atlanta Falcons tight-end Tony Gonzalez and his wife and Dancing with the Stars dancer Karina Smirnoff to bare it all for the animal-rights group, too.
Amanda Beard’s PETA ad. (popcrunch.com)
Amanda’s advertisement was featured at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and read (via PopCrunch.com): “Seeing animals slaughtered to be worn as fashion is awful to me, so I’m definitely against wearing fur … I’d much rather go naked than ever put a dead animal on my body.”
Amanda, an Olympic gold medalist, also stripped down for Playboy, back in 2007. She got her Olympic start in the ‘96 games, and has competed in the 3 after that. In 2003, she held the world record for 200-meter breastroke.