... but don't tell her that.
In a recent interview, the aspiring actress says she's proud of her pictorial, but claims she doesn't don her birthday suit for it.
"Unless you are like 40 and you have to prove something I don't think it's necessary for me to be naked," Munn said of the magazine's initial offer. "I just thought it would be a total sellout on my part. But it became like my favorite thing to tell everybody that I got the offer."
Two weeks later, Munn says the publication called back and said it was okay for her to pose with clothing on. Mission accomplished on the cover:
We hate to break it to you, Olivia, but you ARE naked in the following photos. Follow this article's jump to see what we mean.
Can we see Olivia Munn's goodies? No. But can we see any clothing.
Olivia Munn (born July 2, 1982) is an American actress, model and television personality. She began her career being credited as Lisa Munn. However, since 2006, she has been using the name Olivia Munn professionally. Also since 2006, Munn has been one of the faces of the cable network G4, hosting a number of shows for the network, the most prominent being Attack of the Show!, with co-host Kevin Pereira.
Early life
Lisa
Olivia Munn was born in Oklahoma to mother Kim Munn and father Sam Munn. She is of Chinese descent on her mother’s side and of Caucasian descent on her father’s. When Munn was two, her mother re-married to a man in the Air Force. Although the family relocated many times, Munn was predominantly raised in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo, Japan, where the military assigned her stepfather. During this time, she had appeared in a number of local theater productions, and later became a model within the Japanese fashion industry.
Munn moved back to the United States, settling in Los Angeles, California to pursue an acting career. In 2004, she interned at Fox Sports Net and worked as a sideline reporter for college football and women’s basketball. She has gone on to say that she disliked the experience, explaining "I was trying to be something I wasn’t, and that made me really uncomfortable on live TV." Munn had also gained a small role in the straight to video horror film Scarecrow Gone Wild. She also stars in the music video Hello Tomorrow by the band Zebrahead.
In late 2005, Munn began her portrayal of Milly Acuna, a teen surfer, over two seasons of the TV drama Beyond the Break on The N network. She enjoys surfing and continues to practice the sport. She originally auditioned for the part of Kai, but the producers wanted a "local girl". She also appeared in the film The Road to Canyon Lake.
Attack of the Show!
In 2006, Munn moved on to the G4 network, where she began co-hosting Attack of the Show! with Kevin Pereira on April 10, 2006. She was replacement for host Sarah Lane, who left the show along with Brendan Moran to get married. The network, devoted to the world of video games and the video game lifestyle, was at first hesitant to hire Munn. Although she admits video games were her "weak point", she was confident in her technical knowledge. On the show, Munn is featured with journalist Anna David in a segment of the program called "In Your Pants", which deals with sex and relationship questions from viewers. While working on Attack of the Show!, Munn hosted Formula D, a now defunct program about American drift racing, and an online podcast called Around the Net (formerly known as The Daily Nut), for G4.
Munn is a successful model and has booked campaigns for Nike, Pepsi and Neutrogena. She appeared on Fall 2006 cover of Foam magazine in September, and Men’s Edge magazine in August, and was featured in a pictorial in Complex magazine in November 2006. In February 2007, she appeared as "Babe of the Month" in a non-nude pictorial in Playboy magazine. Munn also appeared in the July/August 2007 issue of Men’s Health magazine. In September 2007, she was featured in the magazine, Italian Vanity Fair for their "Hot Young Hollywood" Issue.
Munn will make her debut in a large Hollywood film in the upcoming Rob Schneider movie Big Stan. She will play Schneider’s character’s receptionist Maria. Munn also has a significant role in the 2008 horror film Insanitarium, in which she plays a nurse at an insane asylum.
Personal
She once dated actor Bryan Greenberg.
Olivia Munn Interview:
LAist: So Kevin Pereira is the only guy my boyfriend would ever consider making out with. Why is that, you think?
Munn: Well, Kevin’s very heterosexual, but he loves to play Gay Chicken. Do you know what Gay Chicken is? Well, if we were playing Gay Chicken I would come up and put my hand on your leg, and then you would put your hand on my shoulder, and then who ever pulls away first loses. Kevin and Wil O’Neal, our gadget expert – they full-on tongued one time. Cause Will’s kinda dirty too. But yeah, somebody made a joke the other day about Kevin & I hooking up. But Kevin’s like a brother to me – it’s disgusting!
LAist: When I did a Google video search for Olivia Munn, the first things that pop up are 1) Olivia Munn deepthroats hot dog, 2)
Olivia Munn Princess Leia, 3) Olivia Munn Lesbionic Woman. How do you do all of this and not lose your dignity?
Munn: That’s a good question – because you have to have dignity to maintain it. Let’s talk about the hot dog for a second – I had no idea this would be up on the front of all these big sites, like Defamer, Perez Hilton, not just G4 techie sites. I came into the office to do our read-through and we’re all going over it: “hot dog falls in mustard, Olivia puts it in her mouth –“ I was like whoa whoa whoa — can we reverse a bit? What makes you think I’d do this? And they said, ‘well, Olivia, you’re always game!’ And it’s true! I don’t take myself that seriously at all, so when something comes down, if it can be remotely funny, I’m gonna do it! They great thing is it’s a daily show, so the next day, I always have the opportunity to adopt an orphan from Ethiopia or something to regain my dignity. I always have the next day to make it up.
The thing about Princess Leia, I did not realize how big the Star Wars convention was– if I knew that I probably would have been throwing up like weeks before, cause I didn’t work out or anything before that. And I hate seeing those pictures, I absolutely dread it, there’s only one picture I’m okay with, cause the light’s hitting a certain way and I’m positioned a certain way, but I hate seeing those pictures.
Going to the Star Wars convention is like going to the mother ship, all our fans are there, and they’re really great. But we actually got in trouble because the head of the convention came to the G4TV event organizer and asked them, ‘hey, can you make sure tomorrow when Olivia comes in for the live show she’s not dressed like Leia again? The other vendors are getting mad cause nobody’s coming to their booths, and everybody’s following her around.’ And it was a big compliment but also a big embarrassment to me! so I’ll never do Leia again.
LAist: Well I have to say, as a chick myself, I never feel condescended to or objectified by what you guys do on the show. There are a lot of cool chick hosts on G4 who are clearly into what they’re doing.
Munn: There’s one fan in particular on the boards who gets on me for putting down women or making insensitive jokes – but the thing is, I just find it funny, it’s my sense of humor. I don’t take it seriously, if anyone’s gonna take our show that seriously – I mean, yes, there are a lot of times when we are debating something rather seriously, but in general, if something’s going to get a laugh, I’m gonna do it.
LAist: But you weren’t into video games before you started the show?
Munn: Not at first, and I didn’t want to come on to be that person who just pretends to be into it. When I’m acting, then I’m an actress, and I’m playing a role. But when I’m here every day I’m myself – I’m a heightened version of myself, obviously, I make a lot more jokes, and I’m pretty energetic. Otherwise I’m pretty tired all the time! I save it for 4-5 and let out all my energy then. But I didn’t think there was anything wrong with saying I want to learn about games and I’m very interested. Growing up in Japan and having brothers I do have a lot of respect for cars and for gaming and for technology, and I do take my computer apart – although now I have a Mac, so I don’t have to do that — but I’m very familiar with the tech side of the world.
When you’re here, you can’t help but see that there is so much intelligence and thought that goes into video games. So now I request every game and go home every night and play, and I’m not very good at it — I still have to play Guitar Hero on easy, but I enjoy it. I’m not a hardcore gamer but I do have a deeper respect – and a lot of girls play now! You look at something like Assassin’s Creed and it’s just ridiculous how cool it is and how it can appeal to so many. We get these people [game creators] on and you hear about the art and the backstory, and it’s just amazing.
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Friday, August 15th, 2008 Ivanka Marie Trump (born October 30, 1981 in New York City, New York) is an American businesswoman and one-time fashion model. She is the daughter of Ivana and Donald Trump, and is currently Vice President of Real Estate Development and Acquisitions at the Trump Organization. Before working for her father, she worked for Forest City Enterprises. Trump joined forces with Dynamic Diamond Corp., a diamond trading company sightholder, to design and introduce a line of jewelry at the brand’s first flagship retail store called ‘Ivanka Trump’ on Madison Avenue. Ivanka Trump was reported in December 2007 to be in a relationship with Jared Kushner, owner of The New York Observer. However, it was reported that the couple split in April 2008.
Education
Trump attended Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut, as well as Chapin in New York City. After graduation, she spent two years at Georgetown University, then transferred to and graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor of science in economics in 2004.
Modeling
Trump’s first cover was a 1997 issue of Seventeen. Since then, she has made her way down fashion runways for Versace, Marc Bouwer and Thierry Mugler. She has done ad campaigns for Tommy Hilfiger and Sassoon Jeans and was featured on the cover of Stuff in August 2006 and again in September 2007. She was also recently featured on the covers of Forbes, Golf Magazine, Avenue Magazine, Elle Mexico and in the October 2007 issue of Harper’s Bazaar. She placed #83 in the 2007 Maxim Hot 100. She has also placed #99 in the Top 99 Women of 2007 and then #84 in the 2008 edition on AskMen.com.
TV appearances
Miss Teen USA Pageant, which is partially owned by her father.
In 2003, she was featured in Born Rich, a documentary about the experience of growing up as a child in one of the world’s most affluent families.
During an April 2006 appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,
Trump said that she and former boyfriend Bingo Gubelmann had broken up, yet they remain good friends. Leno commented that he could hear her father’s influence and inflections in her. David Letterman also made a similar comment when she appeared on Late Show with David Letterman on April 24, 2007.
Trump was a featured guest-judge on Project Runway Season 3.
She was also at a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, event in April 2007 called the Creating Wealth Summit in which she spoke for about 30 minutes about making money and her latest projects.
She has been offered to appear on The Bachelorette, but she declined.
The Apprentice
In 2006, she filled in for Carolyn Kepcher on five episodes of her father’s television program The Apprentice 5, first appearing to help judge the Gillette task in week 2. Like Kepcher, Trump visited the site of the tasks and spoke to the teams, asking them pointed questions. She also evaluated contestants in the boardroom, pointing out critical errors and rebutting excuses they offered for losing the tasks. Though initially unsympathetic to the contestants, Trump later said,
“Whenever I see their breakdowns, I understand. They go virtually 24 hours a day, and each task takes about three days. Unless they win, they don’t get a day off… It’s an incredible amount of work…”
Trump replaced Carolyn Kepcher as a primary boardroom judge during the Apprentice 6 and The Celebrity Apprentice.
Personal life
Ivanka Trump was reported in December 2007 to be in a relationship with Jared Kushner, owner of The New York Observer. However, it was reported that the couple split in April 2008.
Comparisons to Paris Hilton
While the media have often compared Trump to Paris Hilton, heiress to the Hilton Hotel fortune, Trump has objected to the comparison, explaining, “I work 13-hour days for my money,” in an interview with the London Express in 2007, and “I bought my house from my father — I have a mortgage, you know.” Trump asserted, “I think we are totally different individuals… If I were to go off the rails and become this party kid, I would not be able to afford my lifestyle. I’ve never had a sense of entitlement. I saw how hard my father worked for his money and it was always made very clear to me that things wouldn’t just be given to me.”
