Actress and reality television star Denise Richards marked Halloween by revisiting her well-known Playboy past just days before she is scheduled to return to court in her ongoing legal dispute with estranged husband Aaron Phypers, as reported by Fox News.

Richards, 54, shared photos on social media dressed in a black bodysuit, matching bunny ears, white cuffs, and a black-and-white bow tie — a nod to her December 2004 Playboy cover appearance.

 

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Nearly 20 years ago, the Wild Things actress posed nude for the magazine only months after giving birth. She later told Jay Leno that her parents and newborn joined her on the shoot in the Bahamas.

“I said, you better find me some fricken bottoms,” Richards recalled, describing how a stylist made impromptu bottoms out of a shammy and island leaves. “I didn’t have to show anything I didn’t want to.”

Watched @rhobh & as the mom of a 10 month old can I just say that it’s detrimental to my health to know the STILL gorgeous @DENISE_RICHARDS took these Playboy photos at 5 months post partum?!?! #help pic.twitter.com/08TiWAsDV8

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Richards said she had turned down earlier offers from Playboy but accepted the 2004 shoot, believing it was her last opportunity.

“Playboy approached me a couple other times and I didn’t do it, and this time I figured I might as well do it before they never approach me again,” she said, adding that then-husband Charlie Sheen “was really cool about it and helped me pick out the pictures.”

Denise Richards posing for Playboy, December 2004. pic.twitter.com/oD64YykHyl

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