PHOTOS! Catch pictures of Tara Reid hitting Playboy Magazine in a new 2009 photo spread. Tara Reid posed for Playboy photos during a October 7, 2009 picture shoot at private residence in Santa Monica, California.

UPDATE#1 The cover has been released!

Here are the current pics plus other pics of Tara over the years.

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Tara explains her reason for the photo shoot. “I got it fixed and now I’m OK and I want people to know I’m OK,” she told New York’s WPIX.

“I’ve had it done for the last five or six years, but people only want to show the old pictures. It’s so unfair. That’s part of the reason why I did Playboy, to show people, ‘Right, look at me. This is how I look now.’ ” Catch the January / February issue on newsstands.

Original story below:

Reid suffered stomach scars following a botched 2004 liposuction procedure. Because of that procedure, Tara had said she would never choose to grace the pages of Playboy. Reid had said “I know there are problems with my stomach. There are bumps on it, it’s uneven, but it’s not that bad. My stomach scars are my bottle wounds.”

In Touch exclusively reveals that the 33 year old changed her mind, posed for the spread this week, was reportedly nervous at first, but eventually got into and “looked great”.

No release date for the Tara Reid spread has been yet announced. By all indications, LALATE predicts you to see it drop before the New Year.