They hope the K2's, Eve's, and other models they got fall under the same path, hence why they are pushed constantly.
Actually I read that they don't take kindly to their Diva's looking at career prospects outside the WWE, and that K2 may have lost favor with the boss when it came out that she was contemplating various modeling offers she had received or something like that.
Kelly, Layla, and Brooke doing Playboy would have set them up as draws for years to come. I forget why it fell through.
I've always read that WWE doesn't want their girls doing Playboy anymore because it goes against their family friendly image right now, and at a time, against Linda's political ambitions. Of the girls who had posed nude before joining the WWE, I think only Mickie James really saw any trouble for it. Isis the Amazon got kicked off NXT just for appearing fully clothed on a fetish site though, so hey.
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