Vida Farthing Bio
November 6, 1949 / Scorpio / Age 76
Vida Farthing is a British-born Penthouse model, glamour and adult model, born on November 6, 1949 in Harlow, United Kingdom.
Throughout her modeling career, she has also appeared as Vida Heath or Vida Taylor.
Vida Farthing was crowned Penthouse Pet of the Month in July 1971, stepping into the spotlight at just 21 years old. With her statuesque 38-22-35 figure, charming brown eyes, rich brown hair, and prominent natural breasts, Vida carries a new sense of confidence, blending youthful softness with a teasing, self-assured edge.
She arrived like a whispered scandal at a dinner party—an errand turned enchantment, a small plan that unspooled into something far more luminous. What began as a practical step toward employment at an exclusive club became a private revolution of sorts: a London girl stepping into rooms filled with international glitter, cameras, and the peculiar electricity of publicity. That unexpected ascent carried its own sort of glamour, one equal parts curiosity and inevitability.
Vida Farthing wore that moment with a kind of easy, candid confidence. At nineteen she moved through the Penthouse world as if she belonged there by right—quietly curious, quietly electric—her natural charm and striking presence drawing editorial eyes and the flash of lenses. Photographed by Bob Guccione, she held the frame in a way that felt personal and audacious, staking a claim on a new centerfold milestone as the first Pet photographed in a full-frontal centerfold.
Her path wasn’t scripted. Vida originally approached Penthouse simply to seek work as a Cocktail Pet at the Penthouse Club after a friend from her hometown of Harlow became one of the first Cocktail Pets in London and shared tales of the club’s glamorous draw. She secured the position and, as a Pet in training, carried the thick Penthouse Club handbook everywhere—reading its pages in the quiet pockets between appearances. The job unfurled into press conferences and television moments; she appeared in a documentary about the Penthouse phenomenon and took part in a promotional television project filmed at the club. Then came her first trip abroad, a promotional tour through Yugoslavia with other Penthouse representatives—her first time outside Britain, meeting crowds of photographers and answering the curious glare of cameras.
It was the beginning of an unexpected adventure, all the more intoxicating because it had not been planned. Vida Farthing stepped into those brighter spaces with a fresh reckoning of possibility, leaving an impression that was as much about daring as it was about discovery.
