The Shannon Twins Visit The Pool After Dark

Karissa Shannon and Kristina Shannon visit The Pool After Dark at Harrah's Resort on December 29, 2010 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

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Kristina Shannon: "Somewhere" L.A. Premiere

Kristina Shannon arrives at Focus Features' "Somewhere" premiere at ArcLight Hollywood on December 7, 2010 in Hollywood, California. Also pictured, Karissa Shannon. She and her sister star in the movie directed by Sophia Coppola.

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Karissa Shannon: "Somewhere" L.A. Premiere

Karissa Shannon arrives at Focus Features' "Somewhere" premiere at ArcLight Hollywood on December 7, 2010 in Hollywood, California. Also pictured, Kristina Shannon and Sam Jones III. The twins star in the movie directed by Sofia Coppola.

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Kristina Shannon To Debut Music In February

Kristina Shannon -- one of the Playboy twins who famously dated Hugh Hefner earlier this year -- is trying her hand at a new career ... that doesn't involve posing naked.

Apparently Kristina thinks she can sing ... cause she's working on a collection of "club hits" due out in February. She says she plans on doing all the singing herself and plans on working with at least one "big surprise" guest.

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Playboy's Karissa & Kristina Shannon Go Legit

Kristina and Karissa Shannon -- a.k.a. The Shannon Twins -- have made the unlikely step from Playboy reality show starlets to actual stars of a respectable movie.

As if it were some sort of indie-movie master plan, "The Girls Next Door" blonde-duo hold down serious screen-time in Sofia Coppola's "Somewhere."

"Sofia says it was meant to be," Kristina tells PopcornBiz.

Indeed, fate and Google lent helping hands. Coppola was not aware of the wildly popular E! programs detailing the lives of Hugh Hefner's various female/blonde housemates when she went casting for the part of hot twins for the movie about an actor living in the decadent Chateau Marmont.

"She just went on the computer and Googled twins," Kristina explains. "And me and Karissa's pictures popped up. We're like the only hot twins out there besides the Olsen twins."

The two met with Coppola who immediately snapped up the duo. The director decided that the "girl-ier" twin Kristina was right for the part of Stephen Dorff's dancer/girlfriend. Karissa plays her fellow dancer/twin sister.

"I was cool with it," Karissa says about not getting the bigger part, "She's girl-ier than me. I'm more tomboyish."

Kristina says that during the shoot, Karissa would give the kind of advice only a sister can give. "Sofia would let her watch the monitor while me and Stephen were filming. Karissa would then tell me you look better when you do this or that. We were all working together."

Since filming the movie, Karissa and her longtime boyfriend Sam Jones III have been working on a reality show following their lives.

"The movie is going to be iconic."

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Kristina Shannon At Philippe by Philippe Chow

Despite the rain, Kristina Shannon manages a big smile as she dines out at Philippe by Philippe Chows in West Hollywood, CA.

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Shannon Twins' Birthday Celebration At Vanity

Karissa and Kristina Shannon's 21st Birthday Tour hit Vegas and the Worlds Most Famous Playmate Twins made history in Vanity partying like it was greatest day of their lives to the sounds of Eric D Lux.

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The Shannon Twins Celebrate At Sugar Factory

Kristina and Karissa Shannon celebrated their 21st birthday's at Sugar Factory on October 2, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Kristina Shannon At Michael Boychuck's Salon

Kristina Shannon gets ready to celebrate her birthday with a spa night at Michael Boychuck's Color Salon at Caesars Palace on October 2, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Also pictured, Amanda Vanderpool and hip hop artist, Test Me.

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Karissa & Kristina Shannon's 21st Birthday Bash

Making for quite the reason to celebrate, twin sisters Karissa and Kristina Shannon rang in their shared 21st birthday with a booze-fueled party in New York City on Friday night (October 1).

The Playboy beauties - who turned 21 at midnight - first went to dinner at Via De Mille restaurant in SoHo before heading to their very own party at Greenhouse nightclub.

Definitely not a PG affair, Kristina was going wild as she danced around barefoot while drinking straight from the bottle alongside her sis.

Meanwhile, Karissa looked delighted as she unwrapped a gift from her boyfriend Sam Jones III - as her man doted her with a pair of Christian Louboutins which cost a cool $1495.

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