Margot Kidder and Playboy: Why She Posed Naked, Then Wrote the Words Herself

Three years before she became Lois Lane, Margot Kidder posed for Playboy. That part isn't unusual. What she did with the deal is. She told the magazine's editors she'd do the shoot on one condition: they let her write the words that ran next to the pictures. What she handed in wasn't a flattering bit of copy about herself. It was a blunt, funny, occasionally brutal essay about how Playboy itself had made her feel like a failure as a teenage girl. A quick note before we get into it. The essay...