First Daniela Katzenberger wanted it, but Playboy didn’t. Then Playboy wanted it, but Katzenberger didn’t. In 2026, fans can prepare for something.
Naked with a statement: 37-year-old reality star Daniela Katzenberger wants to take off her clothes for “Playboy” after her 40th birthday. “When I’m 40, I want to be in “Playboy”. So far, I’ve always said no to them, but when I’m 40, I’m going to take my clothes off,” she said in an interview with “TV Digital”. “Firstly, because 40 is a bad age for women. Many are close to menopause and think that everything will be a horror.”
And secondly: “Because my career started with me wanting to be in Playboy and not being successful. But since I’ve been successful, the German Playboy has been asking me continuously – for 15 years now. At 40, I say: Yes!” Her 40th birthday is in October 2026. New episodes of her reality soap “Daniela Katzenberger” will be shown on Vox next month, from September 6th.
Jungle camp? “Never!”
However, the Ludwigshafen native is also clear about what she will never do: move into the RTL jungle camp. “RTL could pay whatever they want – I would never take part in that. Because when I’m hungry, I become a diva. And I really don’t want to subject anyone to that,” says the reality star, who now lives in Mallorca.
This time she also wants to present serious sides of herself on television: “Things to do with social media, for example. What goes on there is sometimes anything but funny, just think of the hate comments. I had a heartfelt wish to finally address this – because most people think that ‘Katzenberger’ probably doesn’t have any problems because of her fame and money.”
“A bad-good mistake”
Katzenberger now sees the fact that she once had her eyebrows tattooed as a youthful sin: “There were things that were crap – for example the eyebrows on her forehead. But even though that was bad, it was also somehow good in the end – a bad-good mistake. And actually that applies to everything: When I made mistakes, they were always good for something.”
Vox once built Daniela Katzenberger up to become a television star. In 2015, the cult blonde moved to RTLzwei with her reality formats. With the new season, Katzenberger is now returning to her old home channel.
Source: Stern
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