Three months pregnant in fact. And they used shaving cream since whipped cream would have melted too quickly under the photography studio lights.
"The photo shoot...began in mid-morning, went on through the afternoon, and paid Erickson approximately $1,500 plus expenses. Erickson, 29 years old and three months pregnant, sat on a stool with a white Christmas blanket covering her from the waist down, and wore a bikini with the straps down. She then was covered with shaving cream, which unlike whipped cream would not melt under the hot photographic lights, with a dollop of whipped cream on her head. As the shoot progressed, the shaving cream began to slide down her breasts slightly. Months later, Whorf sent her two outtakes. When she saw the more risqué pictures, she took them over to a girlfriend's house and hid them behind the friend's refrigerator, not wanting her conservative husband to find them. Initially, Alpert felt the cover image "was maybe pushing it a little too far ... I thought the censors would be down on it. But in 2006 it looks pretty darn tame."Interesting tidbit I just learned..."In the 1970s, Erickson returned to college, studying art in Portland, Oregon. She began painting, and owned the art gallery The Wild Deer, in Kelso, Washington, for a decade."
I was in Kelso in the summer of 1974 when I was working down the road at a paper mill in Longview, Washington.
Then..."In the 1970s she married attorney Bob Huffhines Jr. Bob and Dolores Erickson Huffhines were together for 35 years. They resided in Longview, Washington.
LOL...we were almost neighbors!