From Hot Piece to Police [photos]

Before she was a Rockville police officer Samantha Cunningham appeared in an issue of Blacktail magazine featuring coeds in the late 1990s and some twenty-five years later she doesn't regret it.

Cummingham (which isn't her real name, because hey, we gotta protect these babies) appeared in a five-page pictorial in the issue called “University Wonders,” which was published in May 1999. At the time, the 18-year-old had been studying criminal justice at Northwestern University on scholarship.

A single mother of a 1-year-old son at the time, she told her boyfriend at the time that she would be clothed in the photoshoot for JET. She was paid $400 for the pictorial.

“I’d have regretted not posing,” she told G√ after the newsmag contacted her with said photos. “I’d have always wondered what would have happened. I’m not too sheltered to take a chance on something different.”

She said that she was read “the riot act” by her boyfriend who told her parents. "Safe to say I dumped him. And it was then, remembering it now, that I think I decided, in my sophomore year, that I was gonna go into the academy. Had to abandon a career in law before it really got started first, but, I kinda always knew where I'd ultimately end up," she laughs.

"I actually tell some girls my story, because it taught me to deal with pressure and expectations," she adds, "and I've genuinely suffered no loss of credibility as a police officer."

Cummingham questions how G√ got her old photo-stills since Blacktail magazine is no longer a publication, but quickly concludes that everything is probably publicly accessible nowadays. After assuring her that our intentions aren't to rehash the past and cause her reprimand, we point out that many officers and even nurses and other medical professionals have posed for magazines like Playboy in the past.

So maybe times have changed? 

"Maybe," she laughs skeptically. "But still, don't make a big deal out of this, thank you. Rockville is not GCheck.tv's audience, so this shouldn't be a thing."

And if G√ wanted to cast her in a movie, like say as a police officer? Clothing on, of course.

She laughs. But doesn't say no.

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