Maria McBane

Maria McBane was Playboy's Playmate of the Month for the May 1965 issue.  Too bad Playboy has moved away from showcasing such women and instead been filling its pages with masculinized women having breast implants.  Anyway, Maria McBane has been added to the attractive women section apart from being shown here.

In a previous entry that addressed Heidi Klum in the context of working as a lingerie model for Victoria's Secret, a commentator pointed out that women become more masculine as they age, and Heidi Klum's manly face in comparison to a feminine women was an artifact of comparing a 14-year-old girl with a woman (Heidi) nearly 20 years her senior.  I pointed out that the feminine woman is at least 18 and that whereas in the first picture where she is contrasted with Heidi, Heidi may be in the neighborhood of 30, Heidi is in her twenties in her other pictures.  The question is, do a few years, even 10 years, during young adulthood substantially alter the extent of masculinization of women?

Well, the pictures above show Maria at age 19.  The following picture of Maria was taken in 1998, i.e., when she was about 52.

A 52-year-old woman is not going to look as attractive as she was at 19, but does Maria look manly in the picture above?  The fact is that when a young woman is feminine from head to toe like 19-year-old Maria McBane, whereas she will become more masculine with age, aging is not going to turn her into a manly woman.

Here is Heidi Klum's picture again, presumably showing her in the neighborhood of 30, along with the feminine woman she was compared to.

With respect to masculinity-femininity, does anyone want to bet how Heidi Klum's face will look like when she is 52?  Madeline?