Forget Holly Madison, Kendra Wilkinson and Playboy's past. Let's focus on this magazine's future!

More than a decade after rising to fame by posing naked in the publication, Carmen Electra will don her birthday suit for the 55th anniversary issue of Playboy, due to hit newsstands on December 12.

Electra first posed for the magazine in 1996, a decision that transformed the woman born as Tara Leigh Patrick into the quasi model/actress that has used her looks to remain famous ever since. She's now engaged to Rob Patterson.

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