A North Texas teacher has a special connection to Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, who passed away Wednesday at 91 years old.
Karen Drennan was a Playboy bunny for more than four years. She now teaches algebra at a private Christian school, but back in the 1970s, she was a cocktail waitress at the Dallas Playboy Club.
Drennan said Hefner's death is an end of an era.
"I think it [Playboy] came up in a big crescendo, you know, in the 50s and 60s and 70s, and then in the 80s on it went back down," Drennan said. "And I think it's been hanging on this long, because he's been around. Who knows what's going to happen now."
Drennan made it clear she never posed for Playboy, she just waited tables in that classic bunny suit.
When the Dallas Playboy Club was about to open, Drennan said it had a competition and she was one of 200 women chosen to be a bunny.
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She said her parents were shocked at first about her job, but when they realized how much money she'd be making in tips — working as a glorified cocktail waitress — they were more supportive.
Drennan was in college at the time and she said she graduated with honors. Being a bunny helped her pay for school and also helped launch her acting career.
