Biography of Marina Baker (a.k.a.: Marina Pepper)

Marina Augusta Baker (born December 8, 1967) is an English former glamour model and actress turned journalist, children's book author and local politician (now known as Marina Pepper). She was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month for March 1987. Originally from Taplow, near Slough in Berkshire, she and her older brother Martin "moved around a lot" until they reached Norfolk. She is also known as Marina Pepper.

She had an unconventional, nomadic hippie upbringing in the rural environs of Norfolk, as well as different parts of the Midlands and the Southeast. By her own account, her family "thought we were getting a new-built home, but it wasn't ready, and my mother, being as practical as ever, said: 'Well, we are homeless, so we are travellers until we are housed'. I remember trees, bushes and grass and a toilet in a shed. There was this enormous chrome caravan with those sort of lacy doily things in the window, and my birthday party in a tent, playing pass the parcel in the pouring rain. Rain is still my favourite weather."

As a girl, her dreams were to become a dancer and prime minister, because she "liked the idea of being in charge".