Dasha Astafieva

Dasha Astafieva was born in Pokrov, Ukraine in 1985. When she was a little girl, Astafieva found a copy of Playboy in a closet at her family's house. Katarina Witt was on the cover. "I was in shock because I didn’t understand how beautiful a woman’s body could be. That day, I said to myself I wanted to pose one day in the magazine," she said in a 2008 interview with AskMen, "I was 9 years old."Dasha Astafieva started to pursue a career in modeling in 2003. In 2008, Dasha Astafieva became a founding member of the Ukrainian pop music duo, NikitA. In 2007, she was named Playmate of the Year for Ukrainian Playboy. Two years later, in January 2009, Dasha Astafieva was American Playboy's Playmate of the Month. She was the 55th Anniversary Playmate, the search and selection of which were featured on episodes of The Girls Next Door. During that time, Dasha Astafieva lived at the Playboy Mansion. When Hugh Hefner told her that she was the Anniversary Playmate, Dasha Astafieva cried. In 2011, Dasha Astafieva was named spokesperson for AnastasiaDate, a dating site.

Dasha Astafieva filmed a commercial for Maxim and a Russian car manufacturer in 2016, with her NikitA partner Anastasiya Kumeyko. The commercial, which involved the two women washing a car topless, was unable to air on Ukrainian television. In 2017, Dasha Astafieva left NikitA. She releases new music regularly and performs live in Ukraine.