network's series The Girls Next Door, as a Playmate hoping to have her test shoot taken at Playboy Studio West.

On June 7, 2007, a group of Oregon State University women's studies students created a poster celebrating Underwood's selection as Playboy's 2007 Playmate of the Year, and posted it outside Bexel Hall, where it remained in place for only a few hours before Oregon State University staff took it down.

[14] Underwood is credited with discovering 2009 Playmate of the Year Ida Ljungqvist while shopping on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, California.

Underwood appears as a pirate wench in the 2007 film Epic Movie, along with fellow Playmates Qiana Chase, Irina Voronina and Jillian Grace.

[17] In 2013 Underwood was cast in the lead role in the horror thriller Deadly Weekend (also known as Zellwood).

[citation needed] An avid practitioner of yoga, Underwood competed in the eighth Kunoichi competition in Japan, known in the U.S. as Women of Ninja Warrior.

She won her first stage heat after gaining a big lead on three Japanese contestants that had more pedigreed backgrounds in athletics.

[24] Underwood had a two-year on-off relationship with television presenter and Wheel of Fortune host Ryan Seacrest.

[25][26] Sara met her boyfriend Jacob Witzling when she inquired about doing a photoshoot with some of the cabins he built.