Jennifer Lynn Allan was born on May 14, 1974 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. She had previously worked as a cigarette girl in one of the casinos of her hometown before an opportunity to model swimwear arose. Although she had no intention of taking up modeling as a full-time career (her initial goal was to become an elementary school teacher) she obtained further assignments in catalogs and TV commercials and appeared in a music video before being chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month in September 1996. "Her last appearance in the magazine was in the January 1997 Playmate Review."Jennifer Allan on the cover of October 1996 issue of Playboy