If not, you’ll never get ahead.”īarone has not been one to take the easy way out.Īfter completing high school in his native Chicago, he raced through Illinois State University in three years, graduating with a degree in communications. “In this kind of business, you’ve got to take chances. “If it doesn’t, I still have my (video) job,” he said. Playgirl wrote that he has “eyes the color of chocolate truffles.”īarone, who appeared in a Molson ale commercial in Canada and in area fashion layouts, including one in Sunshine magazine, thinks the Playgirl stint could lead to an acting role. He has a 31-inch waist and a 42- inch chest. “What counts is looks, personality, style and attitude.”īarone is 6 feet tall and weighs 175 pounds. “Eventually, we shoot 10 to 12 men and one of them very possibly makes the centerfold,” said Playgirl editor Tommi Lewis. Hundreds of Palm Beach and Broward County men responded. The magazine, which pegs itself as “entertainment for the spirited woman” and has a circulation of about 1 million, advertised its centerfold search in the news media. Playgirl discovered Barone through David Vance, a South Florida photographer Barone knew from previous assignments. “I thought about it for seven to 10 minutes and decided to go for it,” said Barone, who began modeling part time last summer.

“At first I said, ‘OK, great! A job!’ Then I had to think about the possibility of the future, whether it would be considered good or bad (professionally). “It’s a good opportunity to get national exposure,” said Barone, 26, not meaning to make the pun. “You have to let people know the human being instead. “But you still have to come through as a person,” he said.

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