VICTORIA Moore is going up against America’s best beauties in a bid to be crowned Playboy’s top babe.

Miss Moore, from Witham, is flying to the States tomorrow to compete in a new Playboy competition to find the brand’s number one woman.

The bubbly former Bramston School pupil is Miss April in this year’s Playboy calendar and she will spend a week with the other 11 women who make up the calendar.

She is jetting off from Gatwick Airport and once in Las Vegas the 21-year-old will take part in a host of events and be wined and dined by a board of Playboy executives.

“I’m a bit nervous because if I win, it would mean a nude photoshoot,” Miss Moore said. “It would be a great opportunity, but would be a bit nerve-wracking.”

The trained make-up artist, who studied beauty therapy at Colchester Institute, will return home on February 4 and celebrates her 22nd birthday the following day. Miss Moore’s modelling career is blossoming. She regularly features in #5 Rio Ferdinand’s magazine and on Friday did a photoshoot for lads’ mag Maxim.