The Saucy Dare That Made Burt Reynolds Cosmo's First Male Centerfold


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Burt Reynolds received great accolades for his work as Lewis Medlock in the 1972 movie. But he took his newfound fame one step further. Reynolds believed that posing nude for Cosmopolitan in 1972.


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Once upon a time, Burt Reynolds posed nude for Cosmopolitan magazine. In fact, it was in the April 1972 issue, during Helen Gurley Brown's era at the magazine.

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How Burt Reynolds Became Cosmo's First Male Centerfold BUST Magazine September 7, 2018 Share 0 Helen Gurley Brown recalled that she was "taking a bath or making a sandwich or something like that," when the thought occurred to her, "Why don't we put a picture of a naked man in Cosmo? Wouldn't that be fun?"


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Burt Reynolds became the first man to pose naked for a magazine when he shot a centerfold for girls mag Cosmopolitan, but it's something he now says he wishes he hadn't done. Scroll down for.


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The Burt Reynolds Pose is the only stretch that worked for me. I did this stretch every time I felt like resting and cured what had already been two months of suffering in two weeks.


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Updated September 6, 2018 Burt Reynolds Was Embarrassed by His Infamous Nude Cosmopolitan Shoot: 'What an Egomaniac' In 1972, Burt Reynolds, who died on Sept. 6 at age 82, agreed to.


Burt Reynolds 1936 2018 A Life in Pictures

April 2, 1972, marks when actor, director and producer Burt Reynolds posed nude for Cosmopolitan magazine. Reynolds' centerfold sparked awareness toward the taboo that men couldn't pose nude in tabloids and "only women could be naked in magazines.". Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown stated the photo was a "victory" for women.


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Burt Reynolds 19362018

Early life Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. was born on February 11, 1936, to Harriet Fernette "Fern" ( née Miller) and Burton Milo Reynolds. [10] His family descended from Dutch, English, Scots-Irish, and Scottish ancestry. Reynolds also claimed Cherokee and Italian roots. [11] [12]


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(AP Photo/Perez) Reynolds, who joked that he may or may not have had several several cocktails in the greenroom before the show, also wrote that Gurley Brown believed that women have the same.


Burt Reynolds 1936 2018 A Life in Pictures

The lineage of that provocative pictorial can be traced directly to Burt Reynolds, forearm angled coyly over his genitals as he posed Odalisque-style atop a fur rug.


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Burt Reynolds, the star of Smokey and the Bandit,. Here he poses with Jim Nabors and Hal Needham during the filming of Stroker Ace in 1982 at the Lakewood Park Speedway in Atlanta.


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In 1972, acclaimed actor Burt Reynolds agreed to pose nude for Cosmopolitan magazine under its founder and then editor in chief Helen Gurley Brown. The centerfold was credited with sparking a.


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30 April 2012 Other UPDATED: 6 September 2018. Burt Reynolds has died, reportedly in a Florida hospital after a heart attack. Read his obituary here. It's 40 years since a nude Cosmopolitan.


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Hollywood legend Burt Reynolds, known for his unique swagger in movies like "Smokey and the Bandit" and "Cannonball Run," died on Sep. 6 at the age of 82. (Video: Erin Patrick O'Connor/The.


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Once upon a time, Burt Reynolds posed nude for Cosmopolitan magazine. In fact, it was in the April 1972 issue, during Helen Gurley Brown's era at the magazine. As editor-in-chief of Cosmo for.

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