Her real name is Amanda Herman, her stage name is AJ Alexander and she's Miss May in Playboy.

AJ Alexander says she was handpicked by Hugh Hefner to appear in the magazine.

"He liked my auburn hair," Herrmann told a hometown newspaper.

Playboy spotlights racing for their may issue incorporating everything from the Indy 500 to Playboy's own race car to the Go-Kart track her dad once owned.

Alexander says the spread took a lot of work.

"It wasn't easy," she laughed of the four-day photo shoot in Los Angeles. "They had us on location at a rundown racetrack. It was shot in freezing 40-degree rain."

She earned $25,000 up front and will make more from personal appearances in Las Vegas and elsewhere arranged by the magazine. As an aspiring actress and model, AJ also hopes to boost her career with this exposure as well.