After months of speculation, a rep for Playboy magazine confirms exclusively to UsMagazine.com that Kelly Bensimon will pose in its March issue. Bensimon, 41, “will be featured on the cover and in a 6-page nude pictorial in the March issue,”

The photographer who shot the star au naturel knows her well: it’s her ex-husband Gilles Bensimon, a famed fashion photographer.

Bensimon is the first NYC Housewife to be featured in the magazine — but she’s not the first among them to go naked before the cameras. Her castmate Bethenny Frankel posed nude for a PETA billboard unveiled in NYC’s Times Square in mid-December.

And, Jeana Tomasino (now Keogh), a castmember from Real Housewives of the Orange County, was Miss November in 1980.

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