Connie Cooper - Playmate of the Month for January 1961 (Repost)

Connie Cooper (born September 20, 1941) is an Italian-American model. She is best known for being Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its January 1961 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Paul Morton Smith.
According to The Playmate Book, she also attended college courses to study real estate and later became a wife and mother.

WELL-DEVELOPED PROPERTY
Miss January's own topography is a real estate broker's dream

This being the month when resolutions are made, we thought we'd find a playmate who's well on the way to fulfilling her own. We landed a beauty in the person of Connie Cooper, a twenty-year-old from Southern California who has resolved to become a real estate broker. Presently working part time for the management of a large Hollywood apartment building, Connie is boning up on her knowledge of leaseholds, freeholds and hereditaments at a nearby junior college. Standing five-feet-five, and weighing 110, Connie's own landscaping is, from north to south, an impressive 37-21-36. As delicate as a cloisonne figurine, her charms are at their best indoors, where her proclivities run to such things as collecting Oriental knick-knacks with which to decorate her mantel, and those big, fuzzy honeybears with which girls like to strew their beds. When it comes to men, Connie leans toward someone who will share her interest in opera, who can sit by a stereo rig half the night discussing the relative merits of Puccini and Wagner whilst sipping Strega. "The thing I like most about a man is enthusiasm," says Connie – a state of mind she should have no trouble stimulating.

AMBITIONS: Teaching primary students.
TURN-ONS: Music, people, Oriental things, honey bears.
TURNOFFS: Male drivers, female drunks. HOBBIES: Singing, piano, dancing, collecting record albums, and going to the ballet and opera.
JOB HISTORY: I've worked in a toy shop, as a usherette and as a secretary.
FAVORITE SPORT: Swimming.
WHAT I LIKE IN MEN: Enthusiasm, gentleness, trust.
WHAT I DISLIKE IN MEN: Lack of sincerity, phoniness to impress.
FAMILY LIFE: My parents are Italian. Although I was born in the U.S., I didn't speak any English until I was six.