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Patti Davis Nude: Ronald Reagan's Daughter Bares All Again At 58 (PHOTO)

The Huffington Post   First Posted: 05/19/2011 6:27 am Updated: 07/19/2011 5:12 am

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Former first daughter Patti Davis nearly reprised her role as celebrity centerfold for More magazine's latest issue, baring both her body and soul at age 58.

The offspring of Ronald and Nancy Reagan first made it to the gym in her twenties after years of amphetamine and cocaine addiction, and in 1994, at 42 years old, she decided to pose for Playboy:

I told the magazine the kind of layout I wanted to do: athletic, artistic, focused on the shape and musculature I'd worked so hard to achieve. They quickly agreed. If they had insisted on some bedroomy, frilly layout, I would have walked away. I wanted what I'd envisioned all those years earlier, and I wasn't willing to compromise. I knew, given my reputation as the rebellious First Daughter (although my father was out of office by then), that I'd get criticized for doing Playboy, but I didn't care. I wasn't doing this to spite my parents; I was doing it for me. This was my victory lap. This was standing naked in front of the world when it was a miracle that I was even still in the world. I am proof that it isn't that easy to die, because from the age of 15, well into my twenties, I was working on dying. Most addicts are.

And, Davis writes, "Despite all the criticism I got, which was plenty, I'm still proud of that shoot." She adds that she's continued to work out over the years and decided to strip down once again, this time for More, upon the suggestion of her kickboxing teacher, noting, "My muscles are leaner, longer, more defined now."

Davis also opened up about going under the knife:

Speaking of plastic surgery, let me answer the question that inevitably comes up: I have had nothing surgical done below the neck, but I did have a face-lift at 50. And frankly, the minute something in that zone starts drooping, I'm going to have it hoisted back up. There is just no reason to not like your face in the mirror. You see it first thing in the morning, and brushing your teeth in the dark is silly.

Take a look at Davis' newest photo for More magazine and read the rest at More.com.

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06:44 AM on 06/07/2011
I am paying attention not because of who she is but because of what she was, and how lucky (despite, arguably, some resilient genes) she is to be alive. That kind of nudity is hardly prurient, anyhow.
08:51 PM on 05/24/2011
Nice photo. It kind of reminds me of the "pose" you strike during a TSA xray exam. No matter, she looks great at fifty-eight! Can't wait to see her 68th "birthday" pose!
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Chlowina
Why so much hate???
03:59 PM on 05/23/2011
Congrats to her. Looking fantastic and proud of it.
ReckingBall
Don't hate me cause I'm beautiful.
10:38 AM on 05/23/2011
Good genes
03:59 PM on 05/22/2011
She looks awesome! We should all be so lucky to look like that at almost 60...!...Most women with negative comments are just jealous! We came into this world naked. There's nothing wrong with the naked human body. It's a beautiful thing.. You go girl...Show it all.....
02:29 PM on 05/22/2011
Only bec she's Reagan's daughter to I ever have any interest in Patti Davis. I'm usually disappointed bec somehow I always expect more from her considering who her parents are. She seems to be a nice enough woman but a little self-absorbed. For someone who is 58 (my age), she seems rather immature. I don't know if she has children but somehow, I don't think so. She's okay and I really don't care to see her naked.
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Tresco
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11:59 AM on 05/22/2011
I'd hit it. She's lookin' good and she's got a brain in her head.
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zooperman
10:49 AM on 05/22/2011
Yup. Butt crack.
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JPETERB
10:12 AM on 05/22/2011
Re: manly father figure Ronnie and prim and proper Nancy Reagan's lovely recovered addict daughter:
"...in her twenties after years of amphetamine and cocaine addiction, and in 1994, at 42 years old, she decided to pose for Playboy..." Why is it I suspect this 'black sheep' fact alone would have sunk a democratic Presidential candidate chances of even being nominated in the late 1970s and 80s? A drug addicted child would have been made into a TV & newspaper media circus test of that candidate's 'character' and a 'family values' question. No record of arrest for years of the purchase and use of 'dangerous' illegal drugs? Just say no? The entire nation knew about Jimmy Carters alcoholic brother. He became a minor TV celebrity. But, instead, I never even heard of this disconnected "family values" illegal drug addict daughter background fact about Reagan until now. And no, I did (and do) not read People magazine for background facts about major political candidates for public office.
02:31 PM on 05/22/2011
Billy Carter put himself into the spotlight. Maybe no one, not even her parents, knew about Patti's problems?
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JPETERB
05:28 AM on 05/23/2011
That is a nice take on it. Media 101: The media 'spotlight' is usually controlled by the persons sitting behind the light, out of sight, not the person the spot is on. Unless it is an arranged entertainment. Also, a family values President who continued the "War on Drug Users" at home while he had hired underlings running illegal drugs for guns into the US from his White House basement? This Reagan personal family values as hypocrisy information might have been of keen interest to American voters.
The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations
The documents demonstrate official knowledge of drug operations, .... (These plans were apparently aborted when the Iran-Contra scandal broke in November ...
Documentation of Official US ... - Evidence that NSC Staff ...
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/nsaebb2.htm - Cached - Similar
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reviewingthesituation
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08:47 AM on 05/22/2011
HuffPost, you almost got through a whole political page without a picture of a naked woman. Have you learned nothing from what's going on in the news?
10:39 AM on 05/22/2011
Correct. How many men in Tennessee are checking out these photos today?
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PlayTOE
Morals evolved due to cooperative group living
05:56 AM on 05/22/2011
58 and still taking off her clothes for attention --- but she looks good.
(question, does this qualify her as a VP choice?)
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beauboy
08:40 AM on 05/22/2011
playTOE-
It certainly does. She would have more credibility than half the republican candidates, based on genetics alone. She's smart, wouldn't go off half cocked with lies about our founding fathers fighting so hard to end slavery. She wouldn't fall for tht gotcha question of "what news paper or magzine does she read?"She just might reach the top spot! What did you say about the 58 year old body? That's the determning factor, Play..
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captainindustry
then that will be my story.
05:45 AM on 05/22/2011
Ahhhhhhh The Regan years. How I long for those days. If you couldn't make money in the Regan years you might as well have turned in your leased Mercedes.
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captainindustry
then that will be my story.
05:39 AM on 05/22/2011
She's no Meghan McCain.

Meghan McCain gave me a Boehner
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RadicalAgent
"on your left"
07:29 AM on 05/22/2011
good one Richard!
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weekendpartier
I need some money!
10:10 AM on 05/22/2011
HA!
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Jamal Spencer
just me being myself
03:58 AM on 05/22/2011
I will admit,but she looks very attractive and sexy for a 58 year old. I mean really attractive and sexy.
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weekendpartier
I need some money!
10:11 AM on 05/22/2011
Estrogen-hormone treatments will do that to a woman - ah nature, who's the joke really on Men or Women?
02:32 PM on 05/22/2011
Hormone treatments? you're looking at her back. I never had hormone treatments, or a facelift, either, and I'm 58 and my back and rear look as good as hers, plus I've had several children.
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02:36 AM on 05/22/2011
She looks awesome, now that's a cougar!