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I Wore Brad Pitt's Underwear

Back in college, we all knew that Brad Pitt was something special, but I don't think that any of us could have ever imagined just how far this small town Missouri boy would go.

I really did.

I went to college with Brad Pitt at the University of Missouri - Columbia, and we were friends during my junior year (his senior year), spring of 1986. Brad and I were working on a project and spent almost every day of that semester planning, executing and implementing our vision for the second “Men of Mizzou Calendar” and the first one featuring the “Women of Mizzou”.

When I tell people that I knew Brad in college, they always ask if he was into acting back then. Was he famous? He wasn’t into acting or famous when I knew him, but he was definitely one of the most popular guys on campus. 

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Brad was on the very first “Men of Mizzou Calendar” as a sophomore so when I came to college as a freshman, his face was plastered all over girls’ bedrooms everywhere. Famous he was, in our little college town.

In fact, I love to tell this story to illustrate the effect Brad had on women even back then. I lived in a sorority house. The women lived upstairs on the second and third floors, and the main floor was like a lobby, the public domain. It was the only place where men were allowed in our house. We didn’t have cell phones back then so a guy would come over to the house and call a girl from the downstairs lobby to let her know he was waiting. 

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Oftentimes, Brad would come over to my sorority house. And the ruckus this would cause! Girls would race up and down the halls yelling, “Brad Pitt’s downstairs, Brad Pitt’s downstairs!” Then my sorority sisters would tear down the stairs to get a glimpse of him or stop for a friendly chat. Yep, he had that “thing” way back when...

Back to the underwear. Spring break was approaching, and my girlfriends and I had planned a ski trip to Keystone and Vail. I had not a thing to wear. One day while working on the calendar at Brad’s apartment, I told him of my dilemma. Brad walked me into his bedroom, got down on all fours beside his bed and pulled out a large, flat, plastic storage bin stuffed to the brim and handed it to me.

I opened it up and to my delight found ski sweaters, socks, gloves, and several pairs of silk long underwear. I hugged my dear, generous friend and thanked him profusely. Brad walked me to my car (the infamous AMC Hornet) carrying this treasure trove of ski goodies and told me that I was welcome to share his ski gear with my friends. 

And so it was. We had a kick ass week skiing in the Colorado Rocky Mountains wearing Brad Pitt’s sweaters, socks, gloves and silky, long underwear!

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