'Focker' Shocker: Teri Polo's Playboy Spread

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January 11, 2005

With her super sequel 'Meet the Fockers' still tops at the box office (it's already made north of $200 million), TERI POLO has done the unexpected with her next career move: she's posing for Playboy!

Tonight on ET, we have your first look at Teri's incredible, all-nude photo spread and find out what she thinks of her 'Fockers' co-stars!

"No one on the set of 'Meet the Fockers' is going to be surprised," says Teri about her new spread.

In the February issue of Playboy, on newsstands Friday, Teri weighs in on her 'Focker' co-stars, describing ROBERT DE NIRO as "sweet and shy" and DUSTIN HOFFMAN as "ornery, a troublemaker, but extremely supportive and caring." She says kissing BEN STILLER onscreen, who she describes as "drop dead hilarious," was like "kissing my brother -- and that doesn't bother me at all."

And BARBRA STREISAND was not only "honest and genuine," but she also earned a special nickname from Teri on the set -- named after a female body part! The name caught on and Babs was good-natured about it for awhile until it started to get a little tired. "She never got angry with me or anything," Teri says, "but I knew she didn't appreciate it, so I said, 'I'll stop doing it.'"

The 35-year-old Teri, who divorced in 2003 after a six-year marriage and has a two-year old son, GRIFFIN, grew up in Delaware and studied ballet from the ages of six to 17 until a modeling contest landed her in the pages of Seventeen. She subsequently starred in the soap opera "Loving" and then moved to Hollywood to star in such movies as 'Mystery Date' with ETHAN HAWKE, 'The House of Spirits' and, of course, 'Meet the Parents' and its current hit sequel. Balancing film with TV work in such shows as "Northern Exposure" and the BROOK SHIELDS-produced sitcom "I'm With Her," Teri has worked onscreen for two decades.

So, for a woman who clearly knows what she wants, what is she looking for in a mate? "What I find sexy is a balance of being in touch with the inner child and the responsible adult," Teri says. "Also, I'm attracted to someone who is able to take care of himself but also take care of me. I'm the world's strongest woman; I don't need anybody. But every once in a while it's nice to be taken care of."

Watch ET for more with Teri in the new Playboy