It’s hard to believe that Lauren was once the fat, gap-toothed, drama nerd in high school.

She grew up.

Lauren, seen here on the blog previously, has never been in Playboy. But someone out there thinks she has. See, it’s funny — every week when I check my server logs, I see that someone has searched for the term “lauren potts playboy” in Google and landed at my site as a result. The search always comes from the same place — Maryland. I can only deduce that it’s the same person, week after week, searching and clicking on my site.

Now, I’m not naive. There could very well be some hot girl in Maryland named Lauren Potts that this person is searching for. But it ain’t this one.

Here’s Lauren in her underwear, which is as close as she’s gonna get to Playboy. Sorry to disappoint.

There’s a couple photos from this series on vtography.com, but I’ve never showed this one before. It’s always fun to go back and look at old photoshoots — often times there are photos that jump out at me that I didn’t notice the first time around. Yet another reason why I never delete images, even the duds.

Lauren, like many of my subjects, is not a “model”, but she does a damn fine job pretending to be.

Technical details: Nikon D200 with 17-55mm lens zoomed to 45mm @ f/2.8, 1/40, ISO 640, natural light from an adjacent window. Makeup: Lucy Dekranian.