Back in the late 1980s, Deonda Sisco was a 19-year-old Longhorn Steakhouse waitress and aspiring model who went to an open casting call and landed a spot in Playboy magazine's 35th anniversary issue.

She is one of several women with Georgia ties getting undressed for the magazine, including this month's cover of Rossville native and tennis pro Ashley Harkleroad. Others include Mensa braniacs, SEC hotties, and at least one former Falcon cheerleader as well as celebs Kim Basinger and Jane Fonda.

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Inside the magazine, Ashley Harkleroad is photographed, tennis racket in hand, standing in provocative Marilyn Monroe-breeze-moment, and ut-oh, there goes her

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"[I] needed it, and this is a pun on itself, the exposure," Kim Basinger told a reporter in 1988.

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Clockwise (from left): Tiffany Fallon, Nikki Bruneel and Vanessa Hoelsher.

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For Deonda Sisco, posing nude drew a wave of attention — some good, leading to lingerie modeling gigs.

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Harkleroad, 23, wears a bunny crown as Playboy's August covergirl. Inside the magazine, she's photographed, tennis racket in hand, standing in provocative Marilyn Monroe-breeze-moment, and ut-oh, there goes her skirt.

"I'm just a normal girl," Harkleroad says in the magazine. "Other girls on the tour have arms like tree trunks. But I'm just me."

For Sisco, posing nude drew a wave of attention — some good, leading to lingerie modeling gigs. But it also sparked far less desirable attention.

Still, Sisco, now a 38-year-old mom who lives in Atlanta, has no regrets.

"It was a very positive experience," said Sisco who was living in Alpharetta back in 1989. "They were so professional and Playboy is famous for treating women well and I can say I was treated very well."

After appearing in the January 1989 issue, she moved twice because her phone rang off the hook and also quit her then-waitressing job because so many fans dropped in.

"I didn't use a fake name, and while most people were very nice, I did have some crazies bugging and harassing me," said Sisco, who asked her married name not be published. Sisco's life eventually returned to normal. She got married and started a family. She still waitresses part-time.

Let's take a look at women with Georgia ties appearing in Playboy:

NAME: Deonda Sisco

PUBLISHED: January 1989

THE SPREAD: 35th anniversary issue. Sisco was one of 25 women chosen in a nationwide search. At the time, Sisco, was a 19-year-old waitress at Longhorn Steakhouse in Roswell but she had to quit her job after fans kept dropping in.

QUOTE AT THE TIME: "It's an honor. I don't have any hang-ups about my body, and I don't think the body is a shameful thing."

WHAT SHE'S DOING NOW: Mom to a one-and-half-year old boy, she works part-time as a waitress. She would love to pose for the magazine again. "I am a woman 20 years later and I have scars. I am not perfect, but in some ways, I think I am more beautiful."

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NAME: Tiffany Fallon

PUBLISHED: December 2004

THE SPREAD: Miss December. A former Atlanta Falcons cheerleader and Delta Air Lines flight attendant, Fallon also won 2005 Playboy Playmate of the year.

QUOTE AT THE TIME: "This is the right opportunity at the right time," told the AJC in a November 2004 interview. . "I'm doing it because I can, not because I can be the next Pamela Anderson or Jenny McCarthy."

WHAT SHE'S DOING NOW: Lives in Nashville, Tenn., married to Joe Don Rooney of the country band Rascal Flatts. Recently on "Celebrity Apprentice" and ousted on the first episode after Donald Trump deemed her too nice for the competition. She recently gave birth to a baby boy.

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NAME: Vanessa Hoelsher

PUBLISHED: September 2005

THE SPREAD: Playmate of the month. She was 23 at the time, working in the wine business. For months in 2003, Hoelsher was featured on then-96 Rock's Regular Guys "morning domination billboards" in a black leather dress and whip.

QUOTE AT THE TIME: "I've always been a fan of Playboy," she said. "I've always been interested in the whole empire."

WHAT SHE'S DOING NOW: Works in the wine business as a manufacturers representative for wines and spirits in Atlanta, according to a 2007 Wine Report story.

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NAME: Nikki Bruneel

PUBLISHED: October, 2001

THE SPREAD: Girls of the SEC. Bruneel, was a junior at UGA at the time.

QUOTE AT THE TIME: "I don't regret it all at. I really liked it," she told The Red & Black. "So natural and not uncomfortable at all. To me, it was like going to the doctor."

WHAT SHE'S DOING NOW: She interned at Fox 5 in 2003. Her LinkedIn profile lists her as a "Broadcast Media Professional."

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NAME: Ashley Harkleroad

PUBLISHED: August 2008

THE SPREAD: In a piece called, "Love, Ashley," the

72nd-ranked player bares it all — on a bed, blue striped chaise lounge chair, and of course, the tennis court.

QUOTE AT THE TIME: "People put expectations on me because of the way I look. But you can't think about what people say. You just have to do your thing."

WHAT SHE'S DOING NOW: On July 22, Harkleroad was defeated in the first round at the East West Bank Classic in Carson City, Calif.

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NAME: Elizabeth Rogers of Atlanta

PUBLISHED: November 1985

THE SPREAD: The Women of Mensa. At the time,

Rogers was a 23-year-old graduate student in psychology at North Carolina State.

WHAT SHE'S DOING NOW: Unknown

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NAME: Kim Basinger, Athens native

PUBLISHED: Numerous times, including the 40th anniversary issue.

THE SPREAD: On the cover February 1983. In July 1983 she was part of a feature called, "Women of James Bond/007." In January 1988, she was in an eight-page pictorial. In 1983, she said she needed a career boost.

QUOTE AT THE TIME: "[I] needed it, and this is a pun on itself, the exposure," she told a reporter in 1988.

WHAT SHE'S DOING NOW: Starred in 2007 movie, "Even Money." Has been in a continuous nasty custody battle with ex-husband Alec Baldwin.

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NAME: Jane Fonda

PUBLISHED DATE: Pictorials in the August 1966 issue, and the March 1968 issue.

THE SPREAD: Jane Fonda insisted the photos in the 1966 issue were taken on a movie set. She told the New York Times in a 1967 interview that she had no idea the photos were being taken and that a photographer had "hidden in the rafters and taken pictures which he sold to Playboy. "It rocked me, it really did," she said. "It's a simple matter of breaking and entering." Two years later, she appeared in the magazine as part of a piece called, "The Bizarre Beauties of 'Barbarella.'"

WHAT SHE'S DOING NOW: The two-time Oscar winner, who is 70, founded the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and continues to star in movies, including the 2007 movie "Georgia Rule".