Southern Comfort
FROM CANADIAN CHEERLEADER TO SUPERHOT PLAYBOY COVER MODEL, MISS SEPTEMBER IS LOVELY IN LOUISIANA
Stephanie Branton is all about going for it. Growing up on the icy isle of Newfoundland, Canada, she fantasized about becoming a model. "Some people back home said I couldn't do it," she says. "I just knew inside that if I took a leap of faith and worked hard, I could make this happen. I never gave up." The avid hiker, animal lover and former high school hockey cheerleader moved to the sunny City of Angels in search of her dreams. "I wanted to go out in the world and be me," she says. And look at her now, in full blossom as Miss Septem ber and your cover girl. For her shoot, we whisked Stephanie down to Louisiana's Nottoway Plantation and Resort, built in the 1850s. She felt right at home,
both in the sultry, sociable South ("I feel like an hon orary Southern belle," she says) and in front of the camera. "I don't see myself as a sexpot type in real life," says Miss September, "but I love getting into that character as a model. I love giving hot. Although I can be shy and quiet at times, I am a bit of an exhibitionist. I'm comfortable, as they might say in Louisiana, gettin' nekkid." Summing up her break through experience, Stephanie says, "This is by far the biggest thing that has ever happened to me. It's beyond my wildest dreams to be both a Playmate and on the cover of PlAYBOY. And it is my perfect coming-out as a model, because the pictures make it look like I'm here and I'm ready!" She pauses a beat. "And I am ready. This is just the beginning. I have wanted this my whole life, and now this is my time."
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