Way to make the most of your 15 minutes of fame!

I am completely shocked to hear this. I never thought a wholesome woman like this would exploit herself in such a way.

/sarcasm

And its come full circle from "dressed like a whore," to posing nude like a whore. What an attention....whore.

I'm-- too sexy for this flight-- too sexy for this flight-- so sexy I might... just pose naked in Playboy.

I am certain this was her goal all along. If it really mortified her so much, she wouldn't have worn the outfit on every major news station.

@DashTheHand: Hilarious! I agree.

LOL If you look at the name of the image that Meg used for the banner...

".../assets/resources/2007/11/tasteful.jpg"

As if! Subtly hilarious.

This thread is worthless without pics!!!!

Slow news day I guess.

@DashTheHand:

I'm so sick of mysogynisic comments like this.

Now who didn't see this one coming?

@Jaysyn: Real feminists know how to spell "misogynistic."

@Jaysyn: HA HA! Get a spellchecker, maroon.

@DashTheHand:

Misogynistic much?

I guess it doesn’t matter that she’s not particularly attractive.

"Legs in the air" /= "tastefully done"

The fact of the matter is that shes just another butterface Cali blonde with a boob job that would be posing in something like Hustler or Penthouse or Girls Gone Wild: Random Blonde Sluts if she would have posed at all had it not been for the whole media circus around her getting kicked off the plane. She is an attention whore plain and simple and this is simply her follow-up proving that she doesn't give a shit about "decency" because bam, there she is posing nude for money only because of her brief media attention.

Hmmmmmm... from Southwest to the Consumerist to Playboy... I smell a reality show!

Nice.

whatever - good for her!

LOL

that's funny

does she wear the outfit that got her kicked off the flight on the site ?

@Jaysyn: then stop reading them.

I'm with dashthehand, she is a complete attention whore. The only smart one in this entire situation is the Hef, he can only win in this case. Sure she has some extra scratch now, but a nude photo of her is now out there forever. "Well little Jimmy, mommy sort of needed quick cash and she was kicked off this plane...."

The girl is an attention whore that much is true.

I wonder what the split was between the stewardess and Kyla was? Southwest Airlines has no dress code except shirt and shoes.

There's nothing misogynistic about Dash's comment. You find it perfectly acceptable that a woman like this would spread herself out there naked for money? Kids, thats a whore. She's a whore. You don't have to fuck to be a whore. Feminists, you're throwing stones at the wrong person.

I would not kick her out of bed for eating crackers. Now... where is my pastrami on rye..

Wow, I love how everyone here is calling her a "whore" for posing nude...for money!!!

"OMFG, the NERVE of this woman to actually make a quick buck with her nice body. What a slut/whore/etc.! We should all be outraged!"

Never mind that I can imagine at least half of you making such comments are also porn aficianados. The hypocrites are out in force today on Consumerist.

I do agree that this probably isn't a smart move for her to make in light of what happened but the point is it's HER CHOICE. Banking on her fame doesn't make her a whore. I'm sure every single one of us here, if we had the option, would do something to personally reward ourselves.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

I find it rather amusing that the geeks that can't get a girl that looks like this cast such dispersions. Homerjay's and dashthehands' comments are extremely hypocritical since they probably will be the first two to sit naked in front of their computer looking at these pictures and fantasizing that they could have someone like her.

I don't see the connection between an extremely wrong move on the airlines part and her making the best of the situation and posing for Playboy. She's not really my type (she does however have that Barbie fake look Hef seems to love so much) but it is still her legal right to do so.

*shrug* It's not the first time a woman has posed naked.

All you woman-haters calling her a whore, you'd better not look at any of those pictures then. Or do you enjoy exposing yourself to filth?

@homerjay: Yes, just because it isn't within your obviously limited worldview of what is right & wrong doesn't mean she has compromised *her* principles. Nearly every attractive female I know would jump at the chance to model for Playboy.

Hahaha, it's just like Playboy to take back such a story.

You go girl!

And you kids that go "oh my god she's a whore!", just shut up. You're probably the kind of person that gets attracted to another fellow human being with just the beauty of their minds huh? Oh, of course. Hypocrites.

To echo DashTheHand, Homerjay, Vanilla-Fro, et al.: I too am outraged (OUTRAGED!) that this woman is engaging in free market capitalism in a way that offends puritanical sensibilities. Sensibilities that can only be based on a well thought-out and non-hypocritical world view.

For shame!

In her shoes I would have done exactly the same thing. It's a good chance to make money off an unfortunate event. Say what you will, she'll be forgotten in 6 months whether or not she posed for Playboy. This way, she can at least milk her 15 minutes of fame for all it's worth.

1-1 odds the ones calling this woman a whore will be buying a copy of the issue to replace their worn out copy of Glamour.

@goller321: First off, it's "aspersions." Second off, calling someone a whore and then watching porn is not hypocrisy; calling someone a whore and then selling yourself would be. Kyla Ebbert made an enormous stink about being humiliated in public for the outfit she was wearing, then went and posed in front of a much larger audience in much less clothing. She has a right to dress how she wants, and other people have a right to think she's selling herself.

@l951b951: She never said she was mortified by her outfit. She was mortified by how she was treated by the Southwest employee.

Whatever you decide to label her, she's got more balls that any of you name-callers lurking around here eager to pass judgment.

I'm just surprised it took this long. She should have come out with it when people still remembered who she was.

I've read all of the comments so far and ummm yeah I think she is kind of an attention whore. She could have just taken the high road and washed her hands clean of this ridiculous waste of time. However from now until the end of her life she will be known as THAT chick, you know the one who got booted off the plane then made the most of her 15 minutes by posing in playboy.

I like how the assumption is that if you say she's a whore, you're probably a porn lover. Nice.

When there's as much money and number of models in being male and posing naked, then there won't be anything wrong with it. In the meantime it just sells as much because there's the perception of it being "dirty."

where are the pics

@homerjay: "You don't have to fuck to be a whore"

Actually, you do. It's sort of the definition of the word.

I guess what you meant to say is that a woman doesn't have to fuck in order for you to think that she's a whore - which is a very different statement.

And why do you use the word "whore" as if it's an insult? I think the frame of mind that you're displaying here is much more insultingly offensive than the "use my body to make money" mindset that Ms. Ebbert appears to have.

What we really need is a bunch of politicians to do our thinking for us and outlaw this sort of thing.

1. Woman voluntarily poses for magazine.
2. Magazine voluntarily pays her money.
3. Market voluntarily pays for issue.

That is just ALL KINDS of wrong.

whore (hôr, hōr) Pronunciation Key
n.

1. A prostitute.
2. A person considered sexually promiscuous.
3. A person considered as having compromised principles for personal gain.

@Skiffer: That assumes she holds some principal against nudity.

Of coarse she was embarrassed, she got called out because the flight attendants didn't want to look at her crotch for the entire flight, and she was asked to cover up or not fly.

She is an attention whore, because she made a big media stink about it. In the end the airline made an apology for something that they had a right to do. It's funny how businesses show signs about how they have the right to refuse service. But when they do refuse service they get thrown down the media black hole.

Posing for Playboy is just another tick on the box of being an attention whore. No one said she was embarrassed about what she wore. If she was, she probably would have never purchased it.

For all those men and women that think she had every right to wear something that showed her crotch to the world, what would be your response if a mans junk was exposed when he sat down? Would you agree with him being asked to cover up? Would you also be on his side when the media started to carry his story because he was embarrassed over the situation?

@christoj879:

You know that line that one shouldn't cross? Look behind you.

Dial it back a notch.

We aren't surprised that she did this, are we? Count me are surprised that Playboy was interested. I'm guessing Playboy couldn't pass on a great caption like Legs in the Air

But some posters here could make a more powerful point without calling other posters nasty names.

@Consumerist Moderator - ACAMBRAS: I thought christoj879's post was a brilliant commentary on all the other people here who are expressing the same sort of anger and jealousy toward Ms. Ebbert as he did, except using phrases that are more socially acceptable, such as "posing nude like a whore".

@Skiffer: " 3. A person considered as having compromised principles for personal gain."

That means that a person compromised their own principles for personal gain, not that they compromised yours.

Perhaps I should have addressed these comments by HomerJay instead:
"You find it perfectly acceptable that a woman like this would spread herself out there naked for money?"
Yes.
"Kids, thats a whore"
No, it's not.