Playboy offered a nude cover photoshoot to a German female footballer, Giulia Gwinn. She rejected it. Know the reason why?
In advance of this year’s Women’s World Cup, a German football player allegedly turned down a request to take part in a naked Playboy cover shoot.
The journal BILD said that Giulia Gwinn, a midfielder for FC Bayern Munich and a member of Germany’s national team, was approached by Playboy at the beginning of the year but reportedly declined because “it is not an option for her.”
“Giulia Gwinn is not only an outstanding athlete, but also a beautiful young woman. So a personality like her is naturally interesting for Playboy,” In a statement to BILD, Florian Boitin, editor-in-chief and publisher of Playboy Germany, said.
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Gwinn, 24, has been recovering from a cruciate ligament injury she suffered in the previous autumn.
Due to her continued recuperation, she was not chosen for Germany’s final roster. She addressed the situation in an Instagram post from June.
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“When I tore my cruciate ligament for the second time in October 2022, one of my first thoughts was: How long until the World Cup in the summer? Can I make it if everything’s going perfect? Fairly calculatively, the World Cup participation was always in. And probably I wouldn’t have believed it for so long if my rehab hadn’t gone really ideal. Very thankful for my doctors, physios and athletic trainers for being them. And in the last week of this Bundesliga season, after 7.5 months, I was able to complete parts of the team training completely without problems,” she wrote on her Instagram. This is the translated version of the original caption.
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“For me, this week with the team was incredibly valuable emotionally: because I reached my personal goal. Yes, I have to rearrange this for myself in the coming days: actually being fit and still not having a chance to recommend me for one of the World Cup places. A few days you can be sad and disappointed, but then the pride of the other successfully completed rehab should definitely outweigh!”
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The Sun states that five members of Germany’s Under-20 team who appeared in Playboy before to the 2011 World Cup supposedly “struggled to progress in their playing careers,” sparking online discussion about a purported curse.
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