It was due to a lot of hard work, research, and being ready to photos that Heather Rae Young made it to Playboy. As noted on her Playboy webpage, Young discovered that an amazing opportunity with the magazine was around the corner, and she took the plunge to submit herself for consideration. "One day I went online and found out about the 55th Anniversary Casting Call at the Playboy Mansion in 2008," she said. "I freaked, because I think it's every girl's dream to go to the Mansion and see what it's like. So, I did." And the decision paid off, because Young scored a callback and modeled for PlayboyGirls.com as a result. 

On her modeling career taking off so quickly, Young said, "It happened so fast that I'm stunned." Young went on to model for the likes of Smirnoff, Captain Morgan, Baileys, and Jose Cuervo, and was featured in a number of calendar shoots (no surprise there, given her Playboy history). She was a featured model in an ad campaign for the Affliction Clothing line, and went on to model for other clothing lines, including DSO Eyewear, 7 Til Midnight Lingerie, Carrie Amber lingerie, Superstar Swimwear, and Calao Swimwear, as noted by IMDb.