TR: Because that picture is always out there.

I didn't have any idea what it was going to do to my life. She thought it was really liberating and soda pop/Andy Warhol/real American. She proceeded to tell me about all the cool women who modeled in Playboy, like Brigitte Bardot and Ursula Andress. Patti Smith was my friend at the time and I used to bounce everything off of her. LL: Tell us why you posed for Playboy and who convinced you to do it. I think it was brave of her to say, Fuck you, I am not going to be called names because I wanna date pop stars or be in a band. It's the same thing you did.īut she wrote 'slut' and 'whore' on her arms. TR: She was hanging out in the rock scene, started a band, married a musician and had a baby. TR: If you think about it, Courtney Love. I just considered myself a women who did what I wanted and I didn't see any reason why I couldn't. It wasn't as fashionable as it is now to have a child out of wedlock, date pop stars and be a model?all those things people take for granted today. She was three years old before we started to live there again. TR: I read an interview with your daughter where she said that, when you became pregnant, you decided it would be best to move back to Maine, which was why you left the city for so long. Joey Ramone would put us on a lot of shows, and that's why I moved back to New York City in '89. Lisa LeeKing: What were the first two bands you were in? I've been singing in rock 'n' roll bands longer than I've modeled, longer than the relationships. We invited Bebe to the New York Press offices to talk about her new CD and the memoir due out next year, and ended up getting to know Bebe the artist, the feminist and the babe who could still do Playboy, but wishes instead she could grace a High Times cover 'smoking a big, fat doobie.' Interview by Lisa LeeKing & Tanya Richardsonīebe Buell Many of you probably know Bebe Buell as mother to Liv, 70s supermodel, Playboy centerfold and girlfriend of Iggy, Mick, Rod, Elvis Costello, Todd Rundgren, uh.etc.

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