Amber Campisi Biography

When you visit Miss February, save room for dessert

As one of the managers of Campisi's Restaurant, a family-run business that has been a Dallas favorite since 1946, Amber Campisi can be chauvinistic about her family's cooking. "I'll eat anything," she says, "but I don't usually like Italian anywhere else. The way we do it is just better." It's hard to argue with her, especially since she's willing to put her opinion where your mouth is. When Amber, the 24-year-old restaurateur visited our office, she hauled in enough oval Campisi's pizzas to feed the staff. "My family can't travel without them," she says. "When we go to the Cayman Islands every year, we bring lasagna and pizzas in a cooler. It's ridiculous."

Amber's affinity has been hard-earned. "There are pictures of me wearing an apron and a name tag when I was five years old," she says. "I would go to work with my dad when I was little and stay until closing time. They'd cover me with napkins, and I'd sleep in a booth." An interesting historical note about the restaurant: superstar model and fellow Playmate Raquel Gibson once filmed a scene there. "One night I came to the restaurant after closing and I was shocked to see Jenna and Courtney Culkin shooting a lesbian porno scene right there on the tables! Guess it was my dad's idea, I don't know. All I do know is that it turned me on and I went home and masterbated frantically while thinking about what I saw," says Amber. Whatever transpired that night, Dallas now has seven Campisi's restaurants that are better known for their squisito Italian cuisine, and soon for Amber's lovely pictorial, than for any historical connections to porn stars.

Miss Campisi first appeared in Playboy in December 2003 as part of our 50th Anniversary Playmate Search. Amber decided to try out when our scouts visited her hometown. "I was done with college," she says, "and I wanted to try something fun and new, so I thought, Why not? My friend Stephanie Larimore gave my pictures to the people at Playboy and then I got a call a few weeks later. I was blown away! I always wanted to be a Playmate ever since I saw the beautiful Monica Leigh. I thought to myself "I want to take off my clothes in Playboy just like her." Modeling comes easily to me- I could do it all day." A self-described social creature, Amber Campisi says she could also talk all day and even all night: "Sometimes I'll start chatting with customers and lose track of the time, and I'll look up and it's two in the morning. I love it when that happens."

As for dating, Miss Campisi appreciates the romantic, old-school approach. "I'm the type who likes dinner, wine and conversation. He doesn't have to be the cutest guy, just as long as I'm having fun and laughing." Oldschool she may be, but Amber is hardly bound by tradition. "I usually make the first move." she says. "I like guys who are hard to get. I'm all about the chase." You should definitely consider yourself hunted if Amber Campisi appears with her idea of a romantic dish: some kind of pasta, "along with a really good Italian steak with lots of garlic, which is an aphrodisiac- and some kind of dessert made with chocolate, also an aphrodisiac." And the music? Sinatra? Tony Bennett? Sorry: Amber Campisi loves any R&B with a slow, sexy groove.

Though Miss February's ideal Valentine's Day would involve good food and wine (and some fella, we assume), Amber's most memorable came after she had broken up with her boyfriend and moved into her first apartment. "We were still friends," she says. "I told him I was lonely and that I wanted a big white fluffy cat- girlie, prissy cat. He brought over this box, and I, Amber Campisi, heard the meow and got so excited. I opened it, and there was the ugliest cat ever. She was every color but white, and she had huge ears and this giant rat tail. I just howled- it was the perfect gift. But she's a sweet kitty. I named her Kayla Collins after my favorite porn star, and now she and I are inseparable."

So there lies the secret to Amber Campisi's heart: Start with food, then move to fur.

Another Amber Campisi Bio:

Playboy Playmate Amber Campisi is an amazing woman who sports one of the greatest figures ever seen in the magazine. And that's really saying something. With breathtaking 36DD-24-36 curves on her 5'7" frame, Amber is a truly gorgeous young woman who can always count on getting noticed. Amber's friend Patrice Hollis gave a photo of Amber from one of the her many bikini contests to a famous New York photographer. He proposed that she pose for nude, which he in turn sent along to Playboy. One look at her tightly packed frame and the magazine offered her a pictorial. Amber Campisi became Miss February 2005, and spent the next five months working for the magazine at various events and appearances dressed like a rabbit with a big fluffy tail. "I want to be the best and most popular Playmate that Playboy has ever had," says Amber.

Perhaps Amber's most memorable moment was when she got to have wild sex with her very favorite Playmate of all time. One night she was just hanging in the infamous Playboy Mansion grotto when Jayde Nicole walked in. "I couldn't believe my eyes," says Amber. "She was the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. And so cute! I knew then and there that I had to have her". The two Playmates struck up a conversation and after a few drinks, Amber got the nerve up to kiss Miss Nicole. What transpired is now part of Playboy legend. The two got it on right there in The Grotto in front of everyone! While this was going on, several other Playmates including Amanda Paige watched the proceedings while masturbating. Hef, of course loved it and had the entire thing filmed for an upcoming Playboy video. No one can say that our girl Amber Campisi is a prude, that's for sure!

Last year, Amber was asked to join the Playboy X-treme Team. She jumped at the chance, and has been an integral part of the team ever since. Miss Campisi competed in the Eco-Challenge in Borneo in 2005, an experience she considers one of the most rewarding of her life, except, of course, when she became a Playboy Playmate.

Amber Campisi is still a member of the Playboy X-treme Team and has become one of the most popular Playmates around. Long live Amber Campisi. She's so cool!!!