Müller grew up in Fevik. From the age of 11 to 15 she lived in an orphanage. As an 18-year-old, she participated in Miss Norway and finished as the runner-up. She repeated this result in Miss International. She attended Kvitsund Gymnas in Kviteseid for two years, and Hornnes upper secondary school [no] in Hornnes. She then travelled to London where she attended the London Academy of Modelling.
Career
A "Page Three Girl" five times, her first appearance was in January 1974. Müller achieved her major breakthrough after being spotted by Suze Randall, who photographed her Playboy cover and shot her Playmate pictorial (the centerfold was photographed by Dwight Hooker). Müller appeared in the magazine as Playmate of the Month in August 1975, and was named Playmate of the Year in 1976. She appeared on the cover of Playboy nine times between 1975 and 1999.[3]
She is sometimes credited as Inga Anderssen, Lillian Mueller, Yulis Revel, Yuliis Ruval, Yulis Ruval or Yullis Ruval.
In the 1990s, she became a published author of a self-help book and her autobiography. In 2010, she was awarded the title of PETA's "Sexiest Vegetarian Over 50". She is also a personal health consultant and a public speaker.[3] She was a juror for the final of Frøken Norge 2011.
In 2010, she was also featured in a Norwegian television show about Norwegian women having success in Hollywood, the show was titled Ja, vi elsker Hollywood! (Yes, we love Hollywood!)[7]
She was in a relationship with Playboy founder Hugh Hefner between 1976 and 1977,[8] and has also been romantically linked to actor Tom Selleck.[6] She has a daughter, born around 1991.[6] As of 2020, she has never married.[3] She is a practitioner of veganism.[3]
Publications
Müller, Lillian (1995). Feel Great, be Beautiful Over 40!. Los Angeles: General Publishing Group. ISBN9781881649618. OCLC33230786.
Müller, Lillian; Benkow, Bjørn (1998). Usminket historien om Lillian Müller, et norsk barnehjemsbarn, som er blitt at av verdens største sexsymboler [The unadorned story of Lillian Müller, a Norwegian orphanage child, who has become one of the world's biggest sex symbols] (in Norwegian Bokmål). Oslo: LibriArte. ISBN9788244502894. OCLC1028395927.
^Holmlund, Jan Thomas; Lundervold, Linn Kongsli (20 December 2009). "Vurderer nytt Playboy-cover" [Considering New Playboy Cover]. Dagbladet (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 22 June 2017.
