The moment famed Playboy photographer Arny Freytag laid eyes on Maria Kanellis in person, he instantly knew she’d be the perfect cover girl.

“When I watched her wrestle, I didn’t see a lot of close ups, so I couldn’t get a real image of what she looked like. And you wear clothes in wrestling, and are being flipped upside down and sideways, so I didn’t really know how beautiful she was until I met her,” Freytag told WWE.com.

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