Lisa Baker was born on March 15, 1944 in Detroit, Texas. Lisa's family moved from Texas to Broken Bow, Oklahoma when she was two years old. She has four brothers and three sisters. Baker worked as a soda jerk at a local drugstore while in high school. Following graduation from high school Lisa moved to Los Angeles, California and got a job working in the loan service department for a savings and loan association. She was discovered by a photographer as a bridesmaid at a friend's wedding in Los Angeles. Lisa was the Playmate of the Month in the November, 1966 issue of "Playboy." She was named Playmate of the Year in 1967. In the wake of her Playmate stint Baker was a spokes model for "Playboy," appeared on "The Jonathan Winters Show," and was a Budweiser girl on "The Tonight Show." Baker did a follow-up pictorial called "Playmates Forever!" in the December, 1979 issue of "Playboy" and even posed for another pictorial at age 53 for the June, 1997 issue of "Playboy."