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Page 3 is also a 2005 film by Madhur Bhandarkar.
The first topless page 3 photograph of Stephanie Rahn published on November 17, 1970. The original caption was "We, like most of our readers, like pretty girls. And if they are as pretty as today's Birthday Suit girl, 20-year-old Stephanie Rahn, who cares whether they are dressed or not?"
The first topless page 3 photograph of Stephanie Rahn published on November 17, 1970. The original caption was "We, like most of our readers, like pretty girls. And if they are as pretty as today's Birthday Suit girl, 20-year-old Stephanie Rahn, who cares whether they are dressed or not?"

A Page Three girl is a woman who models for nude and topless photographs published on the third page of the UK tabloid The Sun.

The Page Three girl was introduced in 1969 when Rupert Murdoch relaunched The Sun after buying it. The Page Three girl was topless for the first time on November 17, 1970, when editor Larry Lamb unveiled the change while Murdoch was out of the country. The first topless model was Stephanie Rahn. The change was credited for a subsequent increase in sales, which rose 40% to 2.1 million copies within a year.

Beverley Goodway was for many years the Page Three photographer.

Some feminists consider Page Three to be sexist, demeaning and exploitative. Clare Short, an MP from Birmingham Ladywood, led a failed campaign against Page Three girls in 1986. Others, including many Page Three girls, dismiss it as harmless.

The Sun will sometimes run a humorous Page Three. Examples of this include Clare Short, who spoke out against page three: The Sun superimposed her face onto a fat naked woman. During the 1992 general election, The Sun featured "what page three will look like under Kinnock", which was a fat man.

The writing that accompanies the Page Three girl picture usually explains the model's name, age, where she "hails from", and some brief details of her personality. The models are usually shorter than fashion models, typically under 1.67m (5 ft 6 in) tall.

The Sun instituted a policy where models who obtain breast implants—such as Jordan—are "retired" from Page Three.

Recently, articles accompanying the photos (headed "News in Briefs" by The Sun) attempt to tie in with the news, perhaps for humorous effect, with the models notionally being given a chance to give a comment (which falls into place with the paper's editorial line) on topical items.

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Models in other newspapers

Other European newspapers

In the 1970s The Daily Mirror also had topless models, but these were dropped as sexist in the 1980s. In some German newspapers, such as Bild-Zeitung, the equivalent is found on the lower part of page one, and is thus called Seite-eins-Mädchen. In 1976 the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet introduced topless models on page nine, referred to as Side 9 Pigen. The Daily Star, which is often seen as a slavish imitation of The Sun, naturally has its own topless models as well, known as Starbirds. Topless models in tabloids were taken to their logical conclusion by the Sunday Sport, which later added a daily edition and strayed into pornography, owned as it is by a company which publishes top-shelf pornography titles.

Canada

Canadian tabloid newspapers in the Sun Media chain such as the Toronto Sun, Calgary Sun, and Edmonton Sun feature a daily "Sunshine Girl", usually on page three (in fact, the Calgary and Edmonton Suns has permanently moved the Sunshine Girl to the sports section; while the Sunshine Girl is a daily feature, the Sunshine Boy feature only appears sporadically). The full-page, full-colour photo is of a woman in tight, revealing clothing, lingerie, or a swimsuit. In 2000, the Toronto Sun moved the photo off page three and into the last pages of the issue, or into the sports section.

Australia

The Australian niche sports and racing newspaper Sports Truth also runs a Page Three girl, but is often lifted from other publications, and the model given a new name and biography.

The Australian men's magazine Ralph features a bikini-clad "Page 23 Girl".

United States

The American supermarket tabloid Weekly World News regularly features a bikini-clad "Page 5" girl. Yes-Weekly, a local on-line and print publication in Greensboro, North Carolina, features Page 3 talent sometimes featuring men as well as women.

Well-known Page Three girls

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