Hiromi Oshima | |
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Playboy centerfold appearance | |
June 2004 | |
Preceded by | Nicole Whitehead |
Succeeded by | Stephanie Glasson |
Personal details | |
Born |
Tokyo, Japan |
6 January 1980
Measurements | Bust: 34C" Waist: 22.5" Hips: 34" |
Height | 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) |
Weight | 108 lb (49 kg; 7.7 st) |
Official website |
Hiromi Oshima (大島 浩美, オオシマ・ヒロミ Ōshima Hiromi?, born 6 January 1980) is a Japanese adult model. In June 2004 she became the second Japanese-born Playboy Playmate.
Oshima was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, then later moved to the U.S. She has a degree in Communications and lived in Miami Beach, Florida prior to modeling for Playboy.
Hiromi Oshima lives in Los Angeles, where she now works as a professional photo stylist and actively pursues her passion for dance as a Playmate Dancer. "I never dance sexy when I go out, but on stage, it’s liberating," she once explained. "In fact, I feel much sexier when I’m performing with the Playmate Dancers.”
Hiromi was relocating to Miami Beach from Playa del Carmen, Mexico where she was living and working. Through a mutual acquaintance she met Playboy photographer, Jarmo Pohjaniemi. Oshima stated in her Playmate appearance interview, "I could never have been a model in Japan. I would be considered too busty." After her discovery, she was brought to California for a test shoot as a candidate for The 50th Anniversary Playmate Hunt in the December 2003 Playboy, her first magazine appearance was the pictorial of models auditioning.
In addition to her Anniversary Playmate search pictorial, she also made several appearances in other Playboy editions. Oshima was the covergirl of the 2003 Playboy Special Editions Exotic Beauties and she has also starred in a number of Playboy videos.
In June 2004, she became the second Japanese-born Playboy Playmate. The first Japanese-born Playmate was Lieko English who appeared in the June 1971 issue of Playboy.