Julie McCullough She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for February 1986,

Julie McCullough

Julie Michelle McCullough

Playboy centerfold appearance
February 1986
Birth place     Honolulu, Hawaii
Date of birth     30 January 1965 (1965-01-30) (age 43)
Measurements     Bust: 36D"
Waist: 24"
Hips: 35"
Height     5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Weight     115 lb (52 kg/8.2 st)
Preceded by     Sherry Arnett
Succeeded by     Kim Morris

Julie Michelle McCullough (b. January 30, 1965, Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American model, actress and stand-up comedienne. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for February 1986, and played "Julie Costello" on Growing Pains until she was fired for having posed in Playboy.
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    * 1 Early life
    * 2 Modeling career
    * 3 TV and movie work
          o 3.1 The Growing Pains scandal
          o 3.2 Current work
    * 4 Personal life
    * 5 References
    * 6 External links

[edit] Early life

McCullough, who is of Irish descent, was named after a 1950s song called "Oh Julie". In addition to Honolulu, she grew up in several states, though she considers herself Southern, having attended high school in Poplar Bluff, Missouri and Allen, Texas.[1]

[edit] Modeling career

McCullough worked as a model in her teens before moving to California, where she became a Playboy Playmate. In addition to the February 1986 issue of the magazine, she has appeared in several of its newsstand special editions, including:

    * Playboy's Country Girls September 1986
    * Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 6: March 1989
    * Playboy's Bathing Beauties April 1990
    * Playboy's Nudes October 1990
    * Playboy's Nudes December 1992
    * Playboy's Classic Centerfolds June 1998
    * Playboy's Playmate Tests June 1999 - pages 28-33
    * Playboy's Celebrating Centerfolds Vol. 4: February 2000
    * Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 76: November 2000

In 2004, McCullough voiced as herself in Playboy: The Mansion video game. In the game, McCullough was tutorial guide.

[edit] TV and movie work

[edit] The Growing Pains scandal

McCullough found work in a number of television and film projects, including Max Headroom, The Golden Girls, Superboy and the 1988 horror movie remake The Blob, before landing the role of nanny "Julie Costello" on Growing Pains in 1989.

McCullough appeared in eight episodes until she was fired in 1990, which stemmed from series star Kirk Cameron's conversion to evangelical Christianity, a conversion that, according to The E! True Hollywood Story episode focusing on the show, served to alienate him from his fellow cast members, as he did not invite any of them to his wedding. He called for McCullough's termination because of his objections to her having posed nude in Playboy, and accused the show's producers of promoting pornography. A decade later, Cameron apologized to his TV family, attributing his prior behavior to his lack of maturity [2], but did not reconcile with McCullough, who remains critical of him, stating that she lost a lot from the public criticism she endured from the controversy. Although McCullough herself is Catholic, she has criticized the evangelical television programming Cameron has produced, which she has viewed on one occasion, saying on her MySpace page:
"     He thinks if I read science books that I'm going to hell. [I would] rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints ... the sinners are much more fun. And a lot more interesting than some book-burner who is still having growing pains. I am at peace with God. Kirk thinks people like me are going to Hell, if I do then at least I'll go well informed and well read.[3]     "

[edit] Current work
McCullough in 2007
McCullough in 2007

Having enjoyed doing comedy on stage her entire life, McCullough now works as a stand-up comedienne, and has performed at the Hollywood Improv, the Palms Hotel and Casino, and the Laugh Factory.

McCullough has appeared on the E! reality show The Girls Next Door. She appeared in "Under the Covers", the ninth episode of the first season,[4] which aired in October 2005, and "May the Horse Be With You", the second episode of the third season, which aired in March 2007.[5]

[edit] Personal life

McCullough married Canadian actor David Sutcliffe on November 10, 2001; they divorced in December 2003.[citation needed]

McCullough is a member of the social networking site MySpace, and according to Dave Itzkoff, writing in an article in the June 2006 Playboy magazine, "Playboy's unofficial ambassador to the MySpace nation."[6]

McCullough has been a vegetarian and animal rights advocate for "twenty years", according to her MySpace bio. McCullough is pro-choice on the issue of abortion, having discussed the matter on her MySpace blog.

She has been the topic of questions on the game show Jeopardy! four times.[citation needed]

She is close friends with Kendra Wilkinson of The Girls Next Door.[7]