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Lexie Karlsen

Playboy centerfold appearance	March 1999
Birthplace	Mesa, Arizona
Birthdate	October 26, 1978 (1978-10-26) (age 29)
Measurements	34"C - 23" - 34"
Height	5 ft 7 in
Weight	107 lb
Preceded by	Stacy Marie Fuson
Succeeded by	Natalia Sokolova

Alexandria ("Lexie") Karlsen (born October 26, 1978) is an American model, actress and author.

With a background in journalism and finance, Karlsen has been described as a brainy adult model. She began posing nude for Perfect 10 magazine in their summer 1997 premiere issue, and was selected Playboy Playmate of the Month for March, 1999. Her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag and Stephen Wayda. Lexie has appeared in several Playboy videos and special editions, working steadily for Playboy for more than three years following her centerfold appearance. In 2001, Karlsen started writing a regular column on love and dating for Perfect 10. Karlsen has also been featured in the November 2002 issue of Stuff magazine in the layout titled "A Day in the Life of a Centerfold".

Karlsen appeared in Playboy's rival publication, Penthouse magazine, as its Pet of the Month for July 2006. Her appearance in Penthouse made her only the third adult model to be selected as both a Playboy Playmate and a Penthouse Pet, following only Linn Thomas and Victoria Zdrok.

Karlsen is also a FORD model and has appeared in numerous mainstream magazines, including STUFF (US), on the cover of STUFF (UK), in MAXIM, on Beverly Hills 213, in Scottsdale Magazine, in Phoenix Magazine, and numerous other catalogs, editorial and print. She is one of the few nude models who also works extensively in the mainstream market.

In Fall of 2007, Karlsen will begin hosting "The Nude View" on a new pay channel called Vavoom. She also hosts a radio show twice a week on Vavoom's Sirius Channel. [1]

In addition to her work with men's magazines, Karlsen was regularly featured on the FX channel's The X Show, UPN's Battle Dome, and as a try-out Barker Beauty on five episodes of CBS's The Price Is Right show. She has also worked on shows such as Ripley's Believe It or Not, Talk Soup, The Late Late Show, The Tonight Show, and others.

She has also authored a book titled The Divorced Guy's Guide to Dating: How to Meet More Women.

In 2007, the Wall Street Journal reported that federal prosecutors have charged Philadelphia businessman Andrew Yao with lying about his relationship with Karlsen to a grand jury investigating larger charges of fraud and money laundering; Yao gave Karlsen $650,000, which he claims was for airplanes and a movie deal, but Karlsen says it was a gift as she had dated Yao for four months.^[1] Unknown to Karlsen at the time, Yao was married with three children when she began dating him.

As of October 2007, Karlsen is married with two children, ages 3 and 2.

• Playboy's Playmate Review Vol. 16 August 2000 — pages 18–25.
• Playboy's Playmates in Bed October 2000 — pages 70–75.
• Playboy's Nude Playmates April 2001 — pages 68–69, 86–89.
• Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 79 May 2001.
• Playboy's Blondes, Brunettes & Redheads June 2003.

• List of people in Playboy 1990-1999
• List of Playboy NSS models
• List of Penthouse Pets
• List of people from Arizona

1. ^ Suit alleges big law firm let Ponzi scheme unfold

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

Alexandria Karlsen

• Alexandria Karlsen at Playboy.com
• Alexandria Karlsen at the Internet Movie Database
• Official Website of Playboy Playmate and Penthouse Pet Lexie Karlsen
• 2002 Interview of Alexandria Karlsen