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Local Beauty Poses for Playboy

Lexington native Tessa Fowler included in November pictorial "Girls of the SEC"

If you only buy Playboy (ahem) "for the articles," you might have another reason to pick up the men's mag today if you live in Lexington.

Lexington native Tessa Fowler will be gracing a special Playboy pictorial in the iconic magazine's November issue, which hit newsstands today.

Fowler, who currently works as a Hooters Girl at Hooters of North Columbia, is one of 26 young women featured in the November "Girls of the SEC" issue, representing the University of South Carolina. The issue is the first to feature the conference's beauties since 2007.

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, of Greer, in representing USC. 

"This past spring, Playboy photographers set out to find college students who are more smoking than the Southeast's tailgate barbeques to appear in the magazine's annual salute to the sexiest student bodies," states a release from the publication.

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Fowler could not be reached for comment Friday, but photographer Charlie Jarman of Kinston, N.C., remembers her well from a photo shoot earlier this year for the 15th Annual Hooters Regional Swimsuit Pageant -- The Road to Miami 2011, held in Myrtle Beach.

"I found out about Playboy the night I met Tessa, back in May, 2011," recalls Jarman in an email to Patch. "We were talking about doing a photo shoot together, maybe on the beach in Myrtle Beach. She told me she was being considered for the Girls of the SEC issue, which she originally thought would come out in October. She seemed excited but somewhat in awe of the idea of even being considered.

"I can't emphasize enough how nice, polite, soft spoken and down to Earth Tessa was the entire evening -- and has been in our subsequent emails back and forth," Jarman adds. "She thanked me for shooting photos of her and was very humble of the attention and applause she garnered from the crowd watching the contest."


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