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Candace Collins Jordan
Candace Collins Jordan (born May 26, 1954 in Dupo, Illinois) is an American model, actress and writer. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its December 1979 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley. She is a nine-time Playboy cover girl (3 US, 6 international--Japan 03/1980; Mexico 02/1980; America 02/1979, 2/1980, Winter 2020; Spain 12/1982 and 09/1986; Mexico 02/1979 and 03/1981). Her February 1980 iconic "eyes" cover was chosen as Cover of the Year by Marketing Bestsellers Association.

Collins Jordan was also a Playboy Bunny at the St. Louis club and Chicago Playboy Bunny of the Year in 1976. Professionally she now goes by the name Candace Jordan as a popular media personality in Chicago and Chicago Tribune Social Columnist. In 2017, at the age of 60, Collins recreated her Playboy February 1979 cover along with her cohorts Kimberley Conrad, Renee Tenison, Lisa Matthews, Cathy St. George, Charlotte Kemp, and Monique St. Pierre nearly four decades on.

40 years after her centerfold appeared, Jordan shot another cover feature for Playboy magazine's Winter 2020 "The Equality Issue" with fellow Playmates Renee Tenison; Victoria Valentino; Brande Roderick and Raquel Pomplun.

Career
Jordan started her career as a model in St. Louis, Mo. while still in high school. Following a stint as a Bunny at the St. Louis Playboy Club, she moved to Chicago where she moved into the Playboy Mansion when Hugh Hefner was in residence, became Chicago Playboy Bunny of the Year in 1976 and December 1979 centerfold.

Film
Film credits include Risky Business (Call girl, 1983), Class (Buxom girl, 1983), Smokey & the Bandit Part 3 (French maid, 1983) and Miriam's Big American Adventure (2018, as herself). ( https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0172194 )

She has been listed in publications as  one of a "100 Women of Influence (TCW Mag, July 2013);"25 Most Intriguing Chicagoans (CS Magazine 25th anniversary issue, Sept. 2019); CS Magazine "Dynamic Women of Chicago," May 2018); Chicago Magazine ("Belle of the Blog", cover feature March 2010) and others. (Links below)

Personal Life
Jordan graduated as valedictorian of her Dupo High School class in 1972. Instead of taking advantage of her scholarship to St. Louis University, she became a Bunny at the St. Louis Playboy Club later that year.

Jordan has had a weekly column in the Chicago Tribune ("Candid Candace) since 2011; a blog (CandidCandace.com) since 2008, and an award-winning internet show "Candid Candace TV" on YouTube. (She has won two Telly Awards. One in 2015 for "Max's Story" that she created, hosted and produced about an ambassador family at a Chicago Ronald McDonald House and in 2013 as host of "Candid Candace Chicago" on Watch312.com). She has received two Chicago International Film Festival Awards as host/creator of "Candid Candace Chicago."

Publications
She has appeared in many Playboy publications: Playboy's Covergirls (1986); Playboy's Newsmakers (1985); Playboy The Complete Centerfolds (October 4, 2018); The Playmate Book (1996); Inside the Playboy Mansion (1998); Playboy's Greatest Covers (2012); The Playboy Book: Fifty Years (Taschen, 2007); Playboy's Girls of Winter (1984); Playboy Bunnies #3 (Jan. 1, 1983); Playboy Holiday Girls (1987).