"I always want to show that Hawaiian beauty and strength are timeless,” she says.
One of the more beautiful love stories to drip out of the surfing lifestyle is Mahina Florence née Garcia and surfing bad boy, the dangerously redheaded middle Florence brother Nathan.
Mahina and Nathan Florence are childhood sweethearts turned soulmates. They met in third grade at Sunset Beach Elementary. Nathan, already a surf prodigy although much shadowed by his older brother John John Florence, recognised this Hawaiian force of nature.
Mahina saw the quiet boy with bright ginger hair who charged bigger waves than anyone except his brother John John and little brother Ivan.
“I made the first move, of course,” says Mahina.
Friendship deepened through high school surf trips and beach bonfires.
At 18, they dated.
A brief split at 22 tested them. Distance clarified what mattered.
They reunited stronger, building a life on shared values: ocean, family, authenticity.
They married in June 2020 in an intimate Pūpūkea ceremony. The couple were barefoot, lei-draped, and surrounded by surf legends and hula dancers.
“He’s my calm in the chaos,” she says.
Nathan Florence calls her “my compass.”
As if it needed to be said, or clarified, Mahina’s remarkable Hawaiian beauty has been recognised by Playboy magazine, which has crowned her Playmate of the Month.
Mahina’s lineage stretches back generations in Hawaii, where Mahina was raised on the North Shore of Oahu in Pūpūkea. The ocean has long been the center of her day, beginning with her beach walks every morning followed by a dip in the water.
“The lifestyle that I currently have at home in Hawaii, connected to nature, outdoors, surfing, living a healthy lifestyle is perfect,” she says. “My whole goal and dream is to keep doing what I’m doing forever. I don’t feel like I need any more of one thing. I need to be home in Hawaii, around the ocean and my family.”
Mahina takes particular pride in representing her Polynesian heritage in PLAYBOY. “I always want to show that our beauty and strength are timeless,” she says.
You can preorder the issue featuring Mahina Florence here.
The terrific news of Mahina’s Playboy spread comes only one month after the gods were bombarded with prayers and thoughts following Nathan Florence’s battle with an untreatable tropical disease that, while not often deadly, can leave its victim emaciated and weak for months afterwards.
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He sells out to the RedBull poison crap and now she sells out too? Lame
Honestly kinda bummed for Nate having the wifey put the goods on display. Hope she makes it up to him. She could make him a HamSammish for starters.
No mention of the Mike Purpus Playgirl spread? K55 still has his on the wall.
Hoping for a centre spread !
I don’t understand Hawaiian localism. So it’s fine to marry haoles as long as they’re rich?
not so long ago Playboy was a great marketing vehicle for young actresses and models. it was not just about being featured in one of the most popular magazines in the world, it was also about the parties at the mansion where “bunnies” would be introduced to the Hollywood movers and shakers.
Playboy took a dive when they stopped featuring nude models after Hef died and in 2019 shuttered under the “new woke leadership” and “an editorial team consisting of of two women and a gay man, all under the age of 32, who took over the magazine with a mission to make Playboy more progressive.”
they started featuring trannnies and celebrities, even featuring large “Lizzo” as a centerfold(s).
“The magazine also started featuring male models, with influencer Bretman Rock becoming Playboy’s first ever gay male cover star, while actor Ezra Miller, who identifies as both transgender and non-binary, posed for a ‘queer’ pictorial before suffering from mental health issues and multiple arrests. One Playboy cover featured three activists – including one who used performance art to raise awareness about the H.I.V. epidemic – posing naked underwater.”
To promote the woke rebrand at the time, Playboy held an event in West Hollywood featuring discussions on topics like feminism and conversion therapy.”
Now it looks like Playboy is publishing an limited seasonal and annual editions, hence the the “pre-order” link.
Certainly, whatever Mahina’s feature…it will be tasteful. With her resume as a guest broadcaster, this may be just a move by her agent/manager to promote her to national/international recognition and further her on-air career.
Playboy is also releasing a 2026 calendar, so maybe the shot of Mahina will just be featured in the calendar.
Judging by your knowledge of featured alternative models you must have had a peek at the features yeah?
nah. I stopped looking at Playboy when I could lay hands on the real thing back when was 18. Not even when the lovely Lesa Pedriana graced the pages did I have look…..even after our dalliances.
the “knowledge” comes from a Daily Mail article on the resurgence of Playboy.
good try though, give yourself an attaboy.
Seems a bit suss…
….only to a closeted homosexual
Says the guy researching the alternative side of Playboy🤣
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I only buy playboy for the articles
As a female Boomer (and who grew up NS 60’s surfing as a teen) … Thank you for unpacking Playboy’s history that beyond Hefner’s rein, I was not aware of it’s transformation that was very interesting. Have been enjoying following the Florence boys for some time along with Mahina’s contributions. And so Mahina seems to me a woman whom is nobody’s fool … hey, show some skin and see what happens … as whom among us does not appreciate seeing a beautiful human body & being? Also remember Hawaii’s history when the Protestants first appeared ordering the locals to put some clothes on … and get on their knees to some God that was never theirs. So maybe another way to look at this is Mahina free of any body shame, as was her ancient ancestors? It’s only those still locked up by their own shame & guilt that will see this as just more disgusting smut or that she sold herself out. As they say, the world is seen only by the personal perceptions of the beholder … and know Mahina would not give a hoot as to any of it, as she is her own woman … unlike most Playboy bunnies were back in the day. I get the strong sense that because Mahina & Nathan know who they REALLY are here (not their hair, clothes or what they do) … will assist them towards a long life together, no matter what life and or opinions get thrown at them. So I say, GO Mahina!
she’s an incredible woman. super kind…and naturally beautiful.
no pilikia here
You really should cite what you’re quoting when you use quotation marks. Doesn’t carry much weight without.
Wifey just wanna overtake Hubby with followers…winner winner He cook dinner.
Would think that Kaiborg would not approve of the daughter doing smut these days. You think the three brothers get together to check the new nudie mags each month in their tree house with a birds eye on Pipe?
will not be at all shocked when it’s ultimately revealed that Jesus is in fact just the 4th Florence bro , those dudes are different
Nobody beats Ivans beard though.
April 2025? It’s already October 2025. I’m confused.
No wonder why Nathan is always giggling like a stoned teenager.
The key Q to ask is who slinks off to self pleasure to her Hawaiian musk first: John or Ivan?
Kaipo
Ohhh boy – surf adjacent’s break-the-internet moment.
Golf clap for being a sport, Nathan.
Also, here’s hoping Rosie and AJ go down this path one day.
Oh my gosh!
Meh…I’ve had better
But probably not in the last twenty years b
At least ! And my standards have gone through the floor. I’d do alright in a Ukraine basement I reckon
Mehina?
Its been a few decades since I’ve thumbed though a Playboy magazine. Is it like legs wide open or all tease and no show type affair? Either way I’m sorta disappointed to read this.
No idea but feel the same, money is the only motivation to the younger generation these days it seems?
I think very tasteful! A glimpse of stocking, a come hither glance over shoulder, as illustrated etc.
Haha and you also think killing sharks (unless by Palestinians) is acceptable
it isn’t?
I’m waiting impatiently for the government to lift the ban on killing mako sharks. I need a Mako and HamSammish. So good.
Was that with a thumb up (you know where) or a thumb down crushing qualudes and shaking your head in defeat?
don’t answer we all know it was both.
I suppose the real question here is which of these options do us old pervs prefer these days? The modern day legs akimbo with the rusty sheriffs badge and muut on full display or the days of old where a stray nipple and a hint of bush was enough to get us running slightly crooked to the bathroom?
Sorry, ain’t going to be an old perv talking about what I prefer.
rusty sherrifs badge! hahahahahahaha
I’m the opposite of disappointed.
I think its more tits and ass, maybe a peek of the map but nothing like Hustler, Penthouse legs spread stuff. Not really sure they have print mags anymore though.
Guaranteed you don’t see anything you haven’t seen on her Instagram. Pretty weird she’s Playmate of the Month for April 2025 and its now end of October but issue is available for pre-order.