Stacy Sanches

They say everything is bigger in Texas, and Stacy Sanches certainly lived up to the legend. Born on 4 September 1973 in Dallas, Texas, the Latina beauty grew up with long, curly brown hair, captivating green eyes and a dazzling smile that could light up a room. She had everything a centrefold needs, she just needed someone to notice.

That moment came at a Hawaiian Tropic bikini contest in Hawaii, where Playboy scout Ken Honey spotted her among the contestants. He was right to take notice. Stacy was named Playmate of the Month for March 1995, and her pictorial caused such excitement that the readers crowned her Playmate of the Year for 1996. The German edition of Playboy also featured her as a Playmate in June 1996, spreading her appeal across the Atlantic.

Stacy's photos are glamour with a lot of Latin heat. She poses with a confident, playful sensuality, tossing her wild curls, arching her back and flashing that wide Texan smile before turning serious and smouldering. Her curvaceous figure looks spectacular in tiny bikinis, and even better without them. There is an easy, outgoing warmth to her pictures, as if she is enjoying every second of being admired.

After her Playmate of the Year reign she became a familiar face on Playboy TV, hosting the series Playboy's Really Naked Truth, and appeared in the Playboy video Voluptuous Vixens, where she fitted the title perfectly. She showed off her daring side in a Playmate edition of Fear Factor in 2002, was a guest on The Howard Stern Show, and later appeared in TNT's revival of the classic soap Dallas, a fitting role for a girl from that very city.

Stacy remains one of the most popular Playmates of the Year of the nineties. This gallery brings you the Dallas darling in all her curvy, sun-kissed glory.

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