Cindy Margolis just won NBC’s “Celebrity Cooking Showdown.” Now, she’s dropping her apron for a men’s magazine.
Margolis, known as the “Most Downloaded Woman” on the Internet, is following up her win on the NBC limited-run series by posing nude for Playboy.
The mother of three told The Associated Press that she finally agreed to pose for the magazine when they called on her 40th birthday.
“Thank goodness for ‘Desperate Housewives.’ You’re not dead just because you are married and have children,” the actress and model said Monday, on the phone from her Los Angeles home.
After turning down offers to pose for the magazine in the past, Margolis said she accepted this time because she felt posing nude at the age of 40 is empowering.
“In the past it would have been for gratuitous reasons,” she said.
Now, Margolis said, she is enjoying being the ultimate desperate housewife.
“It will be fun to go up against the 20-year-olds and show them that they don’t have anything on me,” she said.
Margolis joins other “over 40” celebs like Farrah Fawcett, Nancy Sinatra, Joan Collins and Joey Heatherton, who modeled naked for the magazine.