To understand the Playboy photos, one must understand the mother. Eva Ionesco was born in 1965 in Paris. Her mother, Irina Ionesco, was a provocative photographer known for her hyper-stylized, erotic images of young girls in opulent, decadent settings. Irina began photographing Eva when she was just four years old.
, at just 11 years old, Eva became the youngest model ever to appear in a nude pictorial. The Shadow of the Lens eva ionesco playboy magazine updated