Brooke Berry Nude
Brooke Berry is happily taking in the never-ending Los Angeles street show — the hard bodies, fast cars, celebrities. Still, she misses northern California, especially mountain life in Tahoe City, where she grew up, and the spontaneity and experimentation at Berkeley, where she attends college. It’s late Friday afternoon in LA and the 20-year-old British Columbia native is wrapping up a weeklong shoot at Playboy’s west side photo studio. During a break, Brooke visits the studio’s library and as she peruses several back issues of Playboy, it’s apparent she’s proud to join a celebrated contingent of Canadian Playmates that includes Pamela Anderson Lee and Dorothy Stratten. “The ratio of good-looking women is the same in Canada, but Playboy attracts more of them somehow. Maybe we’re just funnier, better-looking people,” Brooke says, laughing. Still, California looms large. The well-read English major disagrees with author Thomas Wolfe — she believes you can go home again. “Southern California people care more about their bodies, and they exercise at the gym,” says Brooke. “Northern California people go hiking. Down here, it’s the way you look. Up there, anything goes.” And so goes Brooke.
Q: Since anything goes, what’s the most spontaneous thing you’ve ever done?
A: Having sex on a stranger’s boat is pretty spontaneous. And I’m planning to make love on a ski gondola this year.
Q: Well, have you ever appeared naked in public?
A: Yeah. I’m kind of a nudist, actually. My friend and I once ran up and down her street naked. It was fun. I’ve gone hiking nude in the woods around Lake Tahoe.
Q: You go to school in Berkeley, a center of protest and change. What would you like to change?
A: I think we need to get away from dwelling on unimportant things like jobs and cars and the way we dress, and start realizing that there’s much more out there. We need to improve ourselves and help other people and get along.
Q: What was the best thing to come out of the Sixties?
A: The music. The whole attitude. The sexual revolution made people more open to different experiences and more open-minded in general. I don’t think free love and peace are ever going to happen. But other concepts still apply today.
Q: Have you ever made love in a Volkswagen van?
A: Not in a Volkswagen. I’ve made love in a Subaru — in a few, actually — and in pickup trucks.
Photography by Stephen Wayda & Arny Freytag