Raychul of GameGirl sits down with Ex-GH PR girl Grace Kim

The lovely Raychul over at GameGirl have tracked down Grace Kim, the famous Ex-PR manager for Activision’s Guitar Hero series, to talk to her about her latest venture, revealing all in this month’s Playboy. They question her over lots of topics including the her love for RockBand over Guitar Hero, but also how her friends and familly have taking this. She’s not the first gamer girl to have shown us the world in Playboy, Designer Stevie Case did so a while back, so it nice to see this trend is being kept alive, we appreciate it. Anyway, lets give you some interview snippets:

I know you’ve been holding off on telling your parents about the Playboy issue; have you been able to tell them about it yet?

GRACE KIM: Throughout the year they were supposed to be here, and people were telling me you have to tell them. Sometime around June, I had this letter drafted up. I was like I’m going to send this, but not to my Mom because she wears the pants in the family. She’ll get all melodramatic and she’ll really just interrupt me and won’t let me really explain why I’m doing this because it’s pretty big. I got it all drafted, but I just couldn’t press the send button.

When it came out on the newsstands, I was like I got to go home because the sooner it’s on stands the sooner they’ll find out. I couldn’t tell my parents because of everything happening. My sister just found out she got pregnant and my mom was kind of sick so it didn’t really feel appropriate to bring up the fact that I was in Playboy so I kind of held off. Then a day or two after that, my Grandmother says “Hey, we’ve been getting this magazine in the mail what’s up with it?” She hasn’t even heard of Playboy or she doesn’t even recognize the rabbit head insignia. That’s how religious they are. She thought my dad would see the magazine and throw it away.

My dad is a religious man, but he’s a man. I’ve seen his stash of his quote-unquote, you know, pornography. I think I saw a VHS tape one time of this strip poker kind of thing. And also my parents aren’t that computer savvy you know. But I use their desktop at their house and I pulled up the history and seen that he, you know, kind of navigated through some risqué sites. Although my father and I have not discussed it, I am absolutely positive that before he, quote-unquote, throws the issues out that have been coming to my parents house, that he will look through them before he tosses them out. So I think that he knows and my brother and sister in-law know, but as long as we don’t tell my mom it’ll be ok. But eventually after a couple of months pass and it kind of dies down, then I’ll feel comfortable telling her; especially accomplishing what I hope to make after my issue has been out. I definitely think she’ll be supportive. My dad hasn’t disowned me or anything and I’m 99.9% positive that he’s seen my issue.

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How about any of your old co-workers at Activision? How have they responded?

GRACE KIM: Definitely a huge response there. I actually just talked to one of my insiders over there in production and he said they are a little disgruntled that I’ve been posing a lot with Rock Band. The reason why I am is because, especially with the Fender Strat from Rock Band, both my Guitar Hero guitar has been just thrashed. I etched my name in one and the other I put little stickers all over. It wouldn’t look aesthetically pleasing in the shoot. So obviously they chose the Fender Strat as something to pose with. But really both games were present for the shoot. So I think they just thought Rock Band would be more appropriate and more aesthetically pleasing for the pictorial. So I heard a little disgruntlement from them about that. But I still think they are happy. I mentioned Guitar Hero and my love for the game in the article, so I think they are happy about it and I’ve definitely have heard great things about Guitar Hero World Tour. So definitely, I have much love for both.

Playmate Grace Kim: ”Don’t tell my Mom”