features - issue 73/74

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Rebekka Armstrong's nude modelling career in LA led her into a life of wild Playboy parties and
tours. But she got HIV long before any of that started. Michael Carter catches up with her in London making a film for schoolkids in her new role as Aids educator. Photos by Nikki Kastner Rebekka Armstrong

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Diagnosed HIV positive in 1989, Rebekka 'came out' in 1994, and has since then used her Playboy stardom as a tool to sell the safer sex message to America's teenagers.
I interviewed Rebekka during her recent tour of UK schools. She's now bringing her sexual health message to British teens. Her healthy, glowing looks and open friendly countenance typify California. Rebekka is sharp, certainly not a vacuous, blue-eyed bombshell type at all. PosNation asks her to dress up for our Christmas issue's 'Page Three Stunna' photo spoof and she's game!
The tour (and my interview with Rebekka) was being filmed by Four Way Pictures and cult Brit director,

Antonia Bird. Makers of, among other things, the controversial and

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