Jo Collins, born Janet Canoy on August 5, 1945, in Lebanon, Oregon, was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for December 1964 and Playmate of the Year for 1965. Her original pictorial was photographed by Mario Casilli. She was discovered by Playboy while working as a page for the TV game show Queen for a Day and later worked at the Playboy Clubs as a Bunny and Bunny Mother.
Of Norwegian and Spanish descent, Jo Collins was married to baseball player Bo Belinsky from 1970 to 1975. She earned the nickname “G.I. Jo” for her United Service Organizations tours to Vietnam during the Vietnam War, including delivering a Playboy magazine in person to a lieutenant of the 173rd Airborne Brigade. In December 1979, she posed for the "Playmates Forever!" pictorial.
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