Longtime nude model Erica Campbell has retired from modeling after a religious conversion.

Campbell has appeared in Playboy and Penthouse magazines and special editions as well as modeling websites including Danni.com, Twistys, DigitalDesires.com and her own website ClubEricaCampbell.com,

I am a regular attendee of the Glamourcon conventions, the show where Playboy Playmates (mostly) get together twice a year in L.A. and elsewhere. (I still work the door Sunday mornings at the L.A. show, I have for years, from back in the day when I had to to get in.)

Erica Campbell was also a regular attendee, selling her pictures and autographs. She was always polite, maybe reserved, but I had no idea the angst she must have been going through.

In a lengthy essay posted on ClubEricaCampbell.com, Campbell said that she was lost, "So lost in myself and in the world that I didn't even realize that I was lost. "

"The past few years have been very difficult for me. That is no secret to anyone that knows anything about me. I have been working my tail off to support myself, my farm, my [animal] rescues, my family, and the list goes on. No matter how hard I worked ... no matter how many people or creatures I helped I still had that void inside of my heart and my soul. The more I shot...the deeper my darkness got . The more I understood the pain of others. For a long time I thought I was helping to fill that void in the lives of so many, and in a way I was. But it was all a lie.

"I have decided to leave the world of adult and porn behind me.... and follow the lord. I have accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and am devoting my life to HIS WILL. I have found the one thing that can, will and DOES fill that void...and that's GOD."

Campbell is offering full refunds to website subscribers and has posted her email address on ClubEricaCampbell.com for friends and fans to contact her.

I'm sorry to see her go. She was a very adept model. (I enjoyed trolling the Internet to find just-right pictures of her to go with this story and the one on XBIZ. I like this one. The playfulness appeals to me.) But if modeling was causing her pain, this was the wrong place for her to be.

Wherever you go, Erica, I hope you find happiness.