How an Undercover Expose as a Playboy Bunny Launched — and Nearly Killed — Gloria Steinem’s Iconic Feminist Career

How an undercover expose as a Playboy bunny launched — and nearly killed — Gloria Steinem’s iconic feminist career

Gloria Steinem was the face of feminism in America -- but a exposé she wrote in 1963 nearly halted her work in its tracks.

Gloria Steinem Went Undercover at the New York Playboy Club in 1963, but Her Exposé Trapped Her Inside the Image She Had Exposed

She died at 92 this week, the most recognizable face of American feminism. But in 1963 she was Marie Ochs, a 28-year-old squeezing into an electric-blue satin corset to expose how Playboy really treated its Bunnies.