Classic Playboy Playmate: Miki Garcia, Miss January 1973

From the pages of Playboy, January 1973:

Miki Garcia isn’t the kind of girl you meet every day. Oh, she’s the usual melting-pot mixture (English, Irish, French and Spanish, in her case) and she likes the usual things (popcorn, Tom Jones, All in the Family). But how many women–or men–you know could sustain Miki’s frenetic pace?

Besides working at two jobs–as a Sacramento model and an insurance underwriter–25-year-old Miki is an amateur lobbyist for homeless animals, civic fund raiser, volunteer instructor for a class of Mexican-American teenaged girls who want to break into the modeling field, assistant director of an annual beauty pageant and owner of three hens, three cats, four pigeons, a rooster and a pair of rabbits. Miki is so busy, in fact, that after winning a dozen contest titles, she turned down the 13th and biggest, that of Miss California World–not because she’s superstitious but because it would have conflicted with other commitments, foremost of which was her date to be a Playmate.