Dancing With the Stars, Karina Smirnoff, wears a barely-there sheer black bodysuit on the cover of the May 2011 issue of Playboy Magazine (see cover photo below).

DWTS Karina Smirnoff Not Fired Over Playboy Photo Spread

The 33 year-old pro ballroom dancer posed completely nude in what Hugh Hefner called an “unforgettable” photo spread. Karina thought of Playboy as a way to built up confidence and self-esteem.

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“As a dancer I’ve always embraced my body,” she told the mag. “I’m thrilled to show off my strong, toned physique in the pages of Playboy and celebrate my sexiness.”

Karina looks incredible. Her body is rocking hot, but her face just doesn’t seem right. I meant, her expression. That’s not a sexy look, that’s an “I’m scare and insecure” look.

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Dancing With The Stars professional ballroom dancer, Karina Smirnoff, was rumored to be in trouble and possibly losing her job after Hugh Hefner announced she would be on the cover and complete nude for a photo spread featured in the forthcoming May 2011 issue of Playboy Magazine.

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This could not be further from the truth. Karina, who will become the first pro to strip off her clothes for the famous men’s magazine, actually spoke about this with ABC’s big bosses and they have given her the green light.

Karina Smirnoff Nude For Playboy May 2011

A source says, “They did know ahead of time and they still gave her one of the best pairings.” The 32 year-old is currently dancing with Ralph Macchio, and there’s a lot of speculation on how this could affect the original Karate Kid’s participation and the show’s reputation.

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DWTS co-host, Brooke Burke, is only one of the competitors with a Playboy spread in her resume. Other contestants, who posed in their birthday suit, include names like Kendra Wilkinson, Pamela Anderson, Denise Richards, Lisa Rinna and Holly Madison.

Karina explained she decided to accept Playboy’s challenge because it felt like a new adventure to her and it was a great way to gain more confidence by feeling extra sexy and desired.

“I’m fearless and love the adrenaline rush,” Karina said. “Sexy is the confident energy a person produces. Sexy is the comfortable feeling of being who you are.”

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Dancing With The Stars professional ballroom dancer, Karina Smirnoff, took her clothes off to pose completely naked for a sexy photo shoot that will be featured on the cover of the upcoming May 2011 issue of Playboy Magazine.

PHOTOS: Karina Smirnoff Raunchy Playboy Cover (May 2011)

The big news was announced on Twitter by Hugh Hefner. He wrote, “The May issue of Playboy is unforgettable with Dancing With The Stars’ Karina Smirnoff on the cover & nude inside.”

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Unforgettable? WOW. The 33 year-old, who is currently engaged to Brad Penny, once stripped off for a “I’d Rather Dance Naked Than Wear Fur” advertising campaign for PeTA (photo/video here). Karina is beautiful and has an incredible body. We expect something sexy and classy from her.

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Karina is currently dancing with the original Karate Kid, Ralph Macchio, on the twelve season of Dancing With The Stars. She was previously engaged to DWTS fellow pro ballroom dancer, Maksim Chmerkovskiy.

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“Dancing With The Stars” pro ballroom dancer Karina Smirnoff got a fabulous, huge and gorgeous engagement ring, which is worth an estimated $95,000, from her big spender boyfriend/fiancé Brad Penny.

‘Dancing With the Stars’ Karina Smirnoff Engaged to Brad Penny

According to jewel expert Michael O’Connor, the rock is an estimated 4.5 carat princess cut, center stone diamond set on a platinum band with a small channel-set of princess cut diamond. This is a ring for a real princess or a queen.

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“All these diamonds set into platinum provide maximum shimmer that’s fit for a fairytale princess, and Karina has always liked romantic style rings,” O’Connor, who once worked with Smirnoff for an awards show, tells UsMagazine.

Brad went down on one knee shortly after she and her partner Mike Sorrentino aka The Situation were voted off Dancing With The Stars back in October. Karina claims she was absolutely surprised the proposal. Brad and Karina have not set the date yet.

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Karina says, “I’m the happiest I’ve ever been and Brad is the sole reason for that.” Congratulations to Brad and Karina!

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Professional ballroom dancer and cast member of ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Karina Smirnoff has just announced her engagement to boyfriend Brad Penny. She even showed off her 4.5 Asscher Cut engagement ring at Tao Las Vegas’s five-year anniversary party.

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Penny, 32, and Smirnoff, 32, have actually been engaged since October 4th! Naughty, naughty, Karina! She said:

“We kept it quiet because my family is in New York and Brad’s family is in Oklahoma so we kind of wanted them to come out and celebrate and be a family first before we let the cat out of the bag.”

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Smirnoff called the proposal “a conspiracy” between her manager and Penny. She explained that her manager told her the president of Twitter wanted to meet her after a taping of Dancing With the Stars:

“We went to this restaurant and [my manager] got on her phone and said ‘this guy is killing me,’ and got up and walked away, Then Brad walked in and it still didn’t register. He got down on one knee and he opened the box and I said, ‘Thank you’. I honestly didn’t expect it.”

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Penny, who played baseball last year for the St. Louis Cardinals, was unable to attend the Tao event, but he sent his fiance a hand-written note inside of a fortune cookie along with a diamond necklace apologizing for his absence:

“I’m marrying a Southern Gentleman.”

Does he have any brothers? Preferably brothers who don’t play baseball? Send them to www.bumpshack.com; c/o Ella Max.

The couple met through a mutual friend, UFC fighter Chuck Liddell, and began dating in 2009, shortly after Smirnoff and fellow Dancing With the Stars cast member Maksim Chmerkovskiy called off their engagement.

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Dancing With The Stars Karina Smirnoff, who recently broke up with her professional dance partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy, and San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Brad Penny were caught ‘all over each other’ during the Steel Panther show at the Key Club on Monday night (October 19).

The 31 year-old pitcher dated other hot girls like Alyssa Milano and Eliza Dushku (photos below). Karina recently stripped off her clothes to pose completely nude for PETA (photos and video).

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Dancing With The Stars Karina Smirnoff stripped off her clothes and shows off her perfectly toned dancer’s body for a new PETA ad with the slogan “I’d Rather Dance Naked Than Wear Fur”.

Karina, who was photographed by Robert Sebree, confessed she actually stopped wearing fur when she first saw a cruel video of baby seals being brutally killed for their skin (watch Karina’s PETA video below).

“I did wear fur,” she says, “especially when I was little. But there are ways of being warm and being fashionable without being cruel.”

Says Karina: “You have a choice as an individual, you have a choice in the press, in the world, whether to make a statement that you do support killing animals or make a statement when you don’t. And you can still be as chic as you can possibly want to be.”

Yes, it is possible to be chic without wearing fur. I don’t think a woman wearing fur is attractive at all and as the DWTS beauty said there are other ways to stay warm. But Karina looks absolutely amazing in her own ‘fur’.

Karina Smirnoff PETA Video

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