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Christened “the Bosom” by Playboy magazine, she rode her voluptuous figure to fame and became known as “the most photographed nude in America.”

By Alex Williams

When June Wilkinson was a child in Eastbourne, a seaside resort town on the south coast of England, she considered herself an ugly duckling, especially compared with her cute older brother, Robin, who “would remain picture-perfect once Mum got him dressed,” she once recalled. “I, on the other hand, Little Miss Tomboy, was a complete mess within minutes.”

She once dared to tell her father that she dreamed of becoming a Hollywood glamour queen: “He picked me up, took me to a wall mirror, and said, ‘Now, does that look like the face of a movie star?’”