Playboy Playmate of the Year Ida Ljungqvist Shows Her Stuff
Playboy Playmate of the Year Ida Ljungqvist, the tight-bodied beauty from Tanzania, caused arrested breathing when she sashayed sexily into the W Hotel in Midtown Atlanta for a Playboy pajama party recently. The caramel-coated cutie, who became the first-ever African-born woman to be selected as the Playmate of the Year, confidently sported a see-through pink bra that looked as if it were hanging on for dear life. Her bra and cleavage poked seductively through a large button-down white shirt that sometimes hid her matching panties. Her auburn-tinted tresses cascades down her shoulders, perfectly highlighting her large oval eyes.
Ljungqvist has been on a whirlwind national tour since being selected for the coveted 50th Playboy Playmate of the Year. Despite the hectic schedule, and being under the weather this night, Ljungqvist still percolated with a magnetic personality that endeared her to media and partiers alike. She easily flashed her high-voltage smile when she interacted with the throng of pajama-clad admirers at the Playboy pajama party. And, trust us, she has many reasons to be smiling these days.
A resident of the U.S. for the last six years, Ljungqvist has seemingly become an international media sensation overnight. She’d just completed her coursework at the Fashion Institute in California and was working at the Bebe store on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills when two Playboy employees discovered the 27-year-old stunner. The 5-foot-4 inch Ljungqvist, who was born to a Swedish father and Tanzanian mother, hopes that her tenure as the Playmate of the Year will help her make inroads into the fashion industry in New York where she aspires to become a designer.
Ida also has an equally lovely humanitarian side. She is using portions of the $100,000 she received as Playmate of the Year towards her long-standing charity foundation Empowerment Works, www.empowermentworks.org, which provides resources to help create viable communities in Africa. Additionally, Ida works with the Mother Theresa orphanage in her birthplace of Dar Es Salaam where her mother was born. – terry shropshire
