The Flashback Interview: Charlotte Helmkamp-Kemp
Over the course of my time so far at Pop Geeks, I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing quite a few talents with connections to Playboy. From Playmates like Carrie Stevens and Jeana Keough to celebrity models like Shari Shattuck and Darcy DeMoss, I’ve loved hearing their stories. However, there was a former interview subject of mine with a Playboy connection I’d been hoping to do a second interview with for a long time, and that’s Charlotte Helmkamp-Kemp. Charlotte was Playboy’s Miss December 1982, the month and year I was born. She was one of the first talents I interviewed for my previous writing base, RetroJunk, after my mom passed away in 2010. My mom was a prude who viewed Playboy to be as bad as hardcore porn, and refused to let me enjoy it. I couldn’t do so until after her passing, and so I reached out to Charlotte about an interview in late Fall/early Winter of that year for an e-mail interview. I connected with Charlotte