Sharry Konopski Discussion

[Alan DeMoss]

Some of you have already read Wikipedia but ...

"[Sharry] was injured in a car accident in 1995 which left her permanently paraplegic (paralyzed from the waist down). Nevertheless, she continues to model, and also appears in videos geared towards "devotees" of paraplegics and amputees."

From her website:

"I wrecked my car and had to be airlifted to Emanuel Hospital in Portland, OR. For six weeks, I had a sucking chest wound and my right lung collapsed and the t-9 and t-11 vertebrate had burst fractures in my spine with massive bruising to my spinal cord leaving me paralyzed from the waist down. I am not able to keep the muscles tight enough to stand or walk but I do have sensory. So, I can feel for the most part, thank God!"

This brave woman posed for P------ again in March 1997, in her wheelchair. Yes she still looked like dynamite. I am "thinning out" my collection and will scan that issue later this year.

Good luck to you, brave lady.


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[Alan DeMoss]

Digging through some old 1.4 MB hard discs, I found something I had cut-and-pasted from her Yah00 Group. Sharry (or someone posing as her - ?) was a member and did contribute to the discussion. I have a note that she quit ~2004 when someone balked at having to pay to date her. A brief interview, verbatim:
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"You were barely out of high school when you were selected to be a playmate. Considering that you drove all the boys you went to school with crazy I was wondering how the word of your pictorial got around. Did people know months in advance or was it like the J.Geils song "My Angel is a Centerfold" were people just opened up the magazine and there you were? If I was one of the poor guys who saw you everyday for years and then heard you were posing nude for Playboy but would have to wait months to see the pictures it would have driven me insane with anticipation. That would have been the longest wait of my life."

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OK the high school/posing for playboy thing.
I was in high school at R.A. Long in Longview WA at the time I sent pics to playboy to be tested to be a playmate ect.

I have no idea what people thought of it ect..... I was not popular in school nor did I have any fella's interested in me at all, went to one dance in junior high with Ron Bartell (who is dead now) for the most part the guy's where not asking me out, too independent or busy to care I guess!!!

I had a hell of a time even before the issue came out, the new paper here had my fat ass on the front page day after day, got very sick of it ect....... so yes the community new about me and playboy ect....!

I had guy's driving up and down my street day and night, so I had to have all my thing put in storage by friends and I moved in the night to a new place but the looky-loos found me again and where beating on the door and waxing their cars in front of my house and then some jerk broke into my place and stole my entire top draw from my dresser that had my panties and bra's ect.... in it, I came home took a shower and went to get dressed and the entire top drawer was completely gone!!! I had to replace all my delicates ect... cost me a mint, I was sooooo pisses I moved again!!!

so who knows who thought what at that time, the guy's who never gave me the time of day where acting like diaper rash!!! I realized who my real friends where ect....... stopped talking to the jerks and the do-gooders ect...... hate fare weather friends anyway, if ya like me good if ya don't kiss my fat ass!!!

I had trouble with the old bittys and the town tight asses, they would call me a whore or slut, you tramp one women said to me at a restaurant, I had her fired!!! the men drawled and the women where jealous!! too bad for them all, I see lots of the people who where mean as hell to me before and after I posed for playboy and the men are fat and bald as hell and the women are sweat hogs and have never done a damn thing with their lives, most are treading water in the shallow end of the gene pool anyway!!!

I saw a women I was scared to death of in school, she threatened to cut off all my hair, she was walking around at the well-fare office looking for cigarette butts in ashtrays ect....toothless as hell and sucked up from crack or meth I guess but what a sight to see that the might have fallen and I am doing better then ever in life, thanks to my daddy and my two kids and good friends and fans who love me and want me to be happy ect...!!!! I always say I might be broke but never flat busted!!! hahahahh ha ha
hahahahahahahhahahaha funny!

I hate that song "my angel in a centerfold"
I have had to listen to it to many times!!
any more questions?
friends sharry

[Alan DeMoss]

The Group is still (somewhat) active:

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Post 91, Sept 23, 2001

"OK, my shoot went crazy! I flew to LA and was just testing, I worked with Steve Waida and an assistant Kip, we shot at Marilyn Gerbowski's place, I had no idea what I was doing, I had never put on high heels or lingerie before either, thank god they helped!! so I just did what they told me too, I guess it went well.

I was taken back to Hef's place, I was in complete culture shock at the butlers and the mansion, I was sitting in the Mediterranean room waiting for the butlers to bring me food, I was starved to death and had never had to be so pretty for so long and they never feed ya they don't want ya to look fat I guess (like there is anyway I could not look fat< I am a chubby girl!) so I saw Hef go past me and into the butlers pantry an he emerged with bottle of Pepsi and looked at me like he saw a ghost, I had no idea what to say so I just stud up and smiled, he said HI and I just stared, god I am sure he thought I was the dumbest women on the face of the earth,

well I guess I looked right or what ever cause the next day the car came for me and my bags where packed to go to the airport, they told me to leave my stuff at the mansion I would be shooting my layout that day, I got to the studio and they had my contract ready and I signed it in a hot tick in case they changed their minds before I could get my John handcock on the doted line!!!!

god I was in shock, I couldn't speak at all for most of the day, I went with the stylist and dug through the ward robe to find anything that would fit my tiny frame (100 lb.. and 5 ft. 2 in. and measured 34DD-22-35) so it was hard to find anything to fit me, they had to go shopping with my measurements, shoes too in a size 5 very tiny plus I couldn't walk in them at all, like a deer on ice, pretty funny to me but the crew thought I was a dork!!

so then they made me up and left the hot rollers in my hair and I had a white robe on and the high heels and had to walk from the studio down sunset boulevard to the parking lot to go to the set to shot the centerfold, god you don't know how bad I wanted to stand in the middle of the street and open my rob and flash all the cars driving by honking at me!!

so we drove to the place they had built this dinner set and showed me the dress to wear, god I was a nervous wreck!! so I put the clothes on and had to stand on sand bags with high heels on to be able to get my ass on the bar stool, god it was very strange to me I had never modeled before at all!! well to keep me cheeks on the spot they put ducked tape on my butt to keep me in the position for the shot, well they told me if it is very uncomfortable than it will look beautiful.

I did have to endure my hair being parted like the wendy's rest. sign cause I have thin fine hair and they needed it to look like I had a ton so they parted it in the back and from the front of me it looked awesome but if ya looked at my back side my hair was bobbi- pined funny to keep my hair forward by my little ears to appear to have a full head of hair, plus they did ducked tape and use these construction type medal clothes pin looking things with orange rubber tips to clamp the back of the dress in the proper position of the centerfold, I hated it and when the day was done

I just had the make-up artist Tracy slip me out to the out-fit and it strayed in place tell the next day, we shot in a warehouse like an old meat locker and it was colder then a witches titty in a brass bra, I ended up sick as a dog from being infront of the hot lights and when the photographer was not shooting me Tracy helped me into a fluffy white rob and by a space heater to do a little cold dance and then back infront of the lights, by crawling under the tripod that held the camera and Tracy would come with to help readjust the dress and help get the ducked tape stuck to my butt cheeks to keep me on the sand bags and high enough to see all of me and keep my butt on the seat!!

god what a weird concept of modeling, the pics are an elusion of beauty and the back side is a cartoon!! We also had to shoot the stuff for Asia (no pubic hair was aloud) so they had me hold a strawberry shake with whipped cream and a cherry on top infront of my delicates, but he hot lights kept melting the whipped cream and making the cherry sink so we had to cut drinking straw to hold the cherry up long enough to get the shot for that issue! crazy don't ya think!?

I never been on high heels, they didn't have stuff like that around Longview in a size 5, they had to buy them for me in LA to fit, yes sir Kerri Lee, Hef's ex- had to teach me how to walk in them so I did look like a buffalo coming or going from a room or up stairs, ya got to walk kinds sideways like a crab to keep your butt from looking like a gunny sack full of pups fighting!!

I really wanted to walk into the street and show the world I was fixin to be a centerfold for playboy, I am sure the drivers of all the cars stopped on sunset could tell I just came out of the playboy building!! Yes I had never modeled before either, just jumped in and did the job like they told me, but I do everything that way, no sense in being a chicken shit about it! I know I had all the right curves, playboy said my butt was not my best asset, they thought it was to bubble butt like, I was ahead of my time (Jennifer Lopez) eat your heart out, I had all the junk in my trunk first but it wasn't in style yet!!! damn it!! Yep duct tape, I was the original construction tool time
girl!! Before Pam Anderson!

Ok, so for over two weeks 16 hour days we shot photos, they submitted everything to Hef, I guess he signed the pic cause I am miss Aug. 1987 and I never dreamed in a million years to ever be a model let a lone a playboy centerfold at all!!!! thanks Hef!!

sharry konopski PROUD to be miss august 1987"

[Alan DeMoss]

I am not a blow-up doll or will I be degraded by some cocky tard trying to impress the boys on the block by insulting a lady or group of ladies!!

A lady should always be treated with respect, if she lowers her standards and sacrifice her self-respect and self-esteem, well some make compromised, but none in my company or myself will be treated shabbily!!! very bad manners!!

playboy feels they have to show more to keep the customers and increase sales and for the right price the young girls will do anything to be in Hef's avor!! unfortunately this hurts us older ladies who have teenagers, family's ect. and have worked very hard to not be seen as spread eagle whores!!

India Allen
Well I know the truth and I call it like I SEE it!!! if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, honey IT"S a duck!!!!
yep I was never impressed with India Allen she leaves LOTS to be desired, plus she got her boobs done mid-playmate etc.Like it makes up for the ugly personality and attitude that the world owes HER* every*damn thing!!!* she is always to busy trying to stand on someone else to get ahead in life, so I guess she would do anything to get a modeling job or acting job, she sure made it very clear to us girls who had to listen to her, that she is a social climber and money grubin opportunist!!! NO lie!!! ask Carmen Berg, Her an I had to go to Chicago to do interviews with the MS. Allen and it was NO picnic!!! all I heard come out of her mouth was "I spent this much on this and I won't marry a man unless I GET A. B. C. D. etc.. like love comes with conditions of how much money he can waste on her ect...!!!* I can fall in love with a poor man quicker then a rich man any day, and I don't get traded in for a younger model when I show my age etc.

I think she did get traded in as she started looking old ect...!!* ya get fly's quicker with honey then ya do with vinegar!!!* sour puss!! A man doesn't have to buy me a damn thing, hug me and kiss me and treat me like*a queen and rub my feet, help in the flower bed is nice too!!!!!!!!!!!!

And why would I want to do a low budget skin flick, I will work shoveling dog shit at the pound for minimum wage first!!!

Being Who I am. Hot Rods and My Father
I like hard work, be humble and productive!!for pete's sake I live on $562. In SSI disability and am rich at heart, poor in pocket but I will never be FLAT BUSTED!! hahahhahha ha ha ha!!!

I can swallow my pride to go to 3 food banks every Thursday to make my ends meet!!!!* I am still the girl next door, working on my house, chasing my 2brats and pets ect... and working on my 1955 chevy bel-air 4-door wagon, all original and runs too, daddy and I tinker on it as the years go by, someday I will get her primered and painted and new interior ect.. show car for the hot rod cruise in the summer!!

My dream is to open daddy and gimpy's speed shop and hot rod restoration and run parts at the wrecking yard with my dad an brothers and my son tooooo, we will drive all*over gods country to buy* hot rods and restore and sell or keep the oldies but goodies!!! Hanging with my daddy tell we are too old too see the parts or drive!! Then the grand kids can drive us etc.

I have 2 kids and out of 3 brother my daddy only recently got another grand son, my brother Chris got married and had a boy (Bay Michael) after my daddy Michael Nerheim, he is a very proud grandpa!!

I just wish my other 2 brothers would hurry and give my daddy more little ones to chase and kiss and hug ect.....he loves kids!!!!

The only guy I know that will put a cookie on a skinned knee to distract a child from crying, they think grandpa Mickey is nuts for putting a perfectly good cookie on a booboo and so they stop crying and wonder off eating the cookie and not another thought to the injury!!! smart daddy!!! As far as I am concerned my daddy is the BEST!!! I have a shirt that says "princess daughter of the king!!"
love my dad!!!

Questions that playmates have asked me
1. are your boobs real, can I touch them? … yep yep!!
2. have you had a nose job? … w/ a 2x4 in a fight when I was a kid!
3. is your hair natural blonde? … yep it is, hate it, so I highlight it red!
4. can I lick ya all over? … yep yep ya can!
5. can I sleep in your bed, it's cold? … yep hell ya!
6. how many men have ya slept with? … one to many, I married him!
7. why do ya like to go to wrecking yards and look for car parts, your a girl? … cause I can!!
8. does this make my butt look big? … I lie, I like big butts!
9. are ya going to the party with us? … hell ya as long as ya hold my hand!
10. do ya know why my car won't start? … I will look, here is the prob. too much corrosion on your battery terminals! got a wire brush and a can of coke to kill the white corrosion and clean off the posts, glue a penny on the battery and I will jump your battery off with jumper cables for ya darlin! can I have a hug?

all good things, helps to be one of the boys and know things about cars and LOOK like a girl on the outside, mentally I am all man!!!! the hugs are nice too!!

any questions boys?

A Real Person
Yep I am real, human!!!! I can't sugar coat anything!!! I do say things painfully sometimes, but dude it's all true!!!
I am passionate about everything, larger then life, I think if I where a man they would say I have napoleon syndrome!!!
ultimate cosmic power itty bitty living space!!! Hate being little, all my 13 year old daughters friends are as big if not bigger them me!!!!
I guess I have to work with what I got!!! doing pretty good if I say so myself!!?

Had a modeling career and became a playmate, hated the superficial bullshit and the constant push toward plastic surgery, gave it up to be Mark Debolt's wife and mother of his 2 children, Went to collage so the kids couldn't every say "Why should we go you and dad didn't?! Have a GED and a high school diploma to cover all the bases!! Good to have extra stuff to through in a verbal debate with the teenagers!!

Applied and fought with the federal government for 4 years to get a sweat equity loan to build this house in 92, The kids need a solid foundation to grow to be health and productive parts of society someday!!! had to pound nails 30hours a week for a fuckin' year, went to collage 12 to 18 credits a quarter at the local collage in Longview, chased 2 toddlers and worked a weekend job for my buddy Larry Juve at his cabinet shop doing everything and anything he needed (clean all the equipment and take tool inventory, vacuum every square inch, do all accounts payable and put the finished jobs with the paid in full and put anything not paid on his desk for billing etc..

Be the accountant, clean the bathroom and employee break room, wash coffee cups and pot for the next week etc.... Skin the yearly elk for Larry and Steve his hunting buddy, clean up the blood and drink beer with my buddies!!!) Cleaned housed for 2 neighbors every week and once a month I did the same for a bunch of buddies who share a house.!!

Men are messy!!! clean my house and care for my hubby, dinner on the table when he got home and the kids to bed by 8 p.m. So I can do home work and get some sleep!! Burn my candle at both ends tell I wrecked my car in April of
95, been trying to stay alive and learn to be functionally disabled ever sense.

Oh ya, and be a inspiration to other people to grab the world by the horns and give it kick ass of a time!!! I wouldn't know any other way!

What's Around me.
Yep I am OK, just trying to get over being sick and put some weight back on my skinny body!!!* I have a piece of heaven 150 ft. deep and 85ft. wide, 85x90 ft. of garden for the birds and chickens!! want to buy the property behind me and build a hot rod shop and an apartment for my son so he can have independence but not be to far from mommy!!! I am not ready for him to grown up yet, he's almost 15 and 5ft. 7 in. and 150lbs and 30x30's in men's pants and 10/1/2 in shoes, big boy, he started out 7lbs 9oz. and 21 1/2 inches long!!! god I miss those days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

love old cars, love to hit the local car show here in my home town in the summer and they have a car crews of old cars, god it's hot rod heaven, have to see them all!!!!!

I Love the gaudy old carved dark wood, if it screams Victorian whore house it's mine!! I have a few pieces friends have sent me from Germany, dragon brass candle holders ect... have two different ones!! love them, still in the box cause I don't have my house finished after 12 years, still tarring stuff up and making it perfect to my taste, hard to do when ya can't stand up or have tons of money and time to do the work etc... the weather is shit here in WA from Sept. tell may, hard to do stuff in 4 months to a house this size!!! yard maitance with 30 rose bushes is hard work all summer! I have cherubs, brass and glass and a few porcelain ones my daddy bought me! mostly prints in frames on the wall in my master suite. I don't believe I have had German chocolate before!* Not to much or my ass will get big!!!! so we hate the same music, funny hu!?

Ok I am 36 too, feel older!!
I love the snow if I am by a warm fire with a hot cocoa and friends, hate to be cold it hurts!!!* Seafood is awesome, red lobster here in the states great place to eat!!!!

I live by MT. ST. Helen's, one hour from Portland OR and 2 hours from Seattle, a hour and a half from long beach WA love it there, would love to buy a beach house for weekends ect.. they have a car show in Aug. with old hot rods and good food!!! Seattle is good in the summer, to cold to shop in the winter for me, rainy as hell!!*

My aunt Mary's husband and his company built the space needle and I was there as a kid to see the needle put on and the grand opening!

Tattoos.
I have tattoos, it's my canvas an I will decorate it as I like!!! NO silicone in my body ever!!! to each his own! Just don't cut on me and put stuff in me cause of vanity, I will be ugly first rather than let vanity rule me! I got an ankle and a foot tattoo and a bunny and Miss Aug. 1987 on my tummy, I'm getting two more on my back and one on my sacrum soon!

[spazarino]

Originally Posted by Alan DeMoss

This brave woman posed for P------ again in March 1997, in her wheelchair.

Actually, according to her (I was in email contact with her for a few months, as her son shares my birthday), the "Revisited" pictoral may have been published in 1997....but the shots were taken (if I remember correctly), more than a year earlier...only a few months after her accident.

Brave woman, to do that so soon after....