The Towerlight, Towson University Community, Maryland
When she was 18, Rebekka Armstrong became a Playboy Playmate. Miss September 1986 was living out a dream. Three years later, her dream started to rapidly descend.
Armstrong’s doctor told her that she had HIV. (more...)
The energetic blonde in faded, low-rise jeans and a fitted black T-shirt could have been talking about the importance of a balanced diet. She could have been detailing healthy fitness regimes for high school students, or advocating environmentalism.
There are 40 teenagers waiting for Rebekka Armstrong to begin her talk in a youth centre in Stoke-on-Trent. Sitting on plastic chairs, arms crossed and chins tucked into their chests, quite what the 34-year-old former Playboy Playmate has to offer is clearly puzzling them. Armstrong is, in fact, here to talk about sex, and, more specifically, sexual boundaries in relation to her own Aids diagnosis. (more...)