Free Preview: Playmate of the Month July 1987 - Carmen Berg
Carmen Berg's father is an auctioneer in Bismarck, North Dakota. From the time she was five or six, he took her along when he went to do the fast talk to sell off someone's house or farm. "I think it would have made him happy if I'd gone to auctioneer's school and followed in his footsteps," she says now. But Carmen never learned to talk fast enough and instead set out on her own at the age of 19 to seek her fortune as a model. She eventually wound up in Chicago, which is both our good fortune and a long way from Bismarck. <br><br> Not that Carmen has anything against her home town. It's just that "not much happens there. For instance, when Vanity was in Playboy [May 1985], it was big news in Bismarck, because she was from somewhere near North Dakota: Minnesota." To be perfectly honest, Bismarck didn't look very promising for Carmen unless she wanted to go into auctioneering. "I worked all through high school and I never had a job that paid more than minimum wage." One of those jobs, however, turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Carmen started working out at a Nautilus fitness center during her senior year in high school, then landed a job as a Nautilus instructor at the local Y.M.C.A. <br><br> After a year of practicing what she was teaching, "I developed enough confidence in my body to enter the annual Peace Garden bodybuilding competition held in Grand Forks." She won third place - not bad for someone who'd been working out for such a short time. Her self-esteem bo...
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