Free Preview: Playmate of the Month December 1977 - Ashley Cox

"I was in a scene at the very end of Logan's Run, you know, that sci-fi movie about a future domed city where all the inhabitants are under 30. Well, the dome was destroyed and the people started coming out. I was the first one to come out and go down the stairs to where Peter Ustinov was standing. I had to touch his face, the wrinkles, as though I'd never seen an old person before. It was a small part, but I got fan mail, can you believe it? People actually wanted to know, 'Who was that girl?'" That girl was Ashley Cox and we aren't the least bit surprised that she got fan mail. Ashley is not easy to ignore. She was barely out of high school at the time and that was her first experience before the cameras. It was just the beginning for the Texas native who was once so skinny she was dubbed The Grasshopper by shortsighted friends. "Then, almost overnight, I went from a skinny kid to this. I don't know what happened - I just filled out." Ashley isn't always given to such understatement, but she does have a tendency to view nature's gifts matter-of-factly. Not that she is unappreciative; it's that when a magician produces a rabbit, she doesn't go looking for hidden compartments in the hat. That attitude comes from some lessons in life Ashley learned early on: "We weren't really poor, but there were four kids and my father died when I was ten. So it was up to my mother to raise all of us alone. She did a fantastic job, but I knew if I wanted anything special, I'd have to go out...