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When you hear that Teri Polo posed for the February issue of Playboy, you might wonder to yourself, Now why would she do something like that? Meet the Fockers is a huge hit! She's written her ticket to the A-list! But then perhaps you navigate over to her IMDb page and look at the projects that came in the four years between blockbuster Meet the Parents and its sequel: a handful of TV movies, Beyond Borders, the short-lived sitcom I'm With Her. She's been to enough casting sessions where she was mistaken for some other peroxide It-Girl to know exactly how disposable the "pretty, long-suffering blonde significant other" role is in this town. A gal's gotta set herself apart. And that's when Hef rolls out of bed to make his pitch, three hours into a priapic Viagra session with seven women who thought they'd do Playboy *before* the acting career. No one will ever mistake you for Gretchen Mol again.

Next month: Mol ups the ante with some water sports in Hustler.