We join the UFC's *Brittney Palmer* for a hot naked session in the gym in
this hot new pictorial at *Playboy*. Anything goes in the Octagon, the
eight-sided cage in which the martial artists of the Ultimate Fighting
Championship do battle: punching, kicking, backflip body slams. But eye
gouging is not allowed—nobody wants to run the risk of not being able to
see the UFC's vivacious ring girl Brittney Palmer sashay across the Octagon
in a bikini between rounds. Brittney grew up in Las Vegas, another place
where almost anything goes. "I had a high school sweetheart," she
remembers. "His mother was so into the UFC she would throw pillows at the
TV set. When I was 18 I worked out front at UFC events, handing out free
beer. And now I'm actually in the Octagon, which is crazy." After high
school graduation, Brittney got a job as a magician's assistant and danced
in a burlesque show at the Flamingo Hotel. What she learned: "The show must
always go on. Even if you don't have your outfit on, the music is still
starting at 10." What she did when not pursuing enlightenment through
burlesque: "You'd get off at 11, go out for drinks, party till the sun
came up and then do it again." "I'm no longer just this Vegas
showgirl," she says. "I want to be an artist, and I'm really lucky to
have a passion like that." Brittney taught herself to paint by watching
YouTube videos and built up enough of a portfolio to get into UCLA. "I've
been learning about composition and colors and negative space," she
reports. She knows that someday she'll probably have to broaden her subject
matter beyond rock stars. "But I love painting those pictures, and people
love putting them on their walls," she says. "Would you rather have a
portrait of somebody you don't know or a portrait of Jimi Hendrix?" Art
school is what inspired Brittney to pose for playboy. "I take
figure-drawing classes all day, every day," she explains. "Ninety-nine
percent of the time there's a nude model in your class—it's beautiful,
and it's art. I'm really good at drawing nudes. I think women's bodies
are fantastic, and I work my ass off for my body. I have such appreciation
for being in Playboy—it's like being a model for an elite figure-drawing
class." Who knew school could be so much fun? See more of Brittney Palmer
nude at Playboy