LOS ANGELES, May 5 (UPI) -- Kristine Lefebvre, fired by Donald Trump on "The Apprentice Los Angeles," appears nude in the June issue of Playboy to publicize her battle with cancer.
Lefebvre had a radical hysterectomy after she was diagnosed with cervical cancer.
"I want people who have gone through what I've gone through to realize they're still a whole person," she told The Arizona Republic. "I hope there's one woman out there who has had breast cancer and is willing to go back into her lingerie drawer and pull out that lace bra -- not to make her husband or her boyfriend feel good but to make herself feel good."
Playboy airbrushed her surgery scars. Lefebvre said she would not have minded having them visible but understands that men want to see skin, not scars, in Playboy photos.
Lefebvre, 38, plans to use the fee to pay for a surrogate mother so she and her husband can have a child. She had 10 eggs harvested before undergoing surgery to make that possible.
"I went through the craziest path to sort of heal from this process -- The Apprentice and then Playboy," she said. "It's not your normal course of therapy, but it ended up working."
