Times change and people realize how inappropriate it is. She herself has called for an end to the use of the image as a relic of a male dominated field.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/How-a-Nude-Playboy-Photo...
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/How-a-Nude-Playboy-Photo...
When you read your article, it seems the _journalist_ tried to extract a saying from her. So she says something quite vague instead, mentioning "time to retire" again... because it's what is going to happen because of "time changes.
After all you're representing yourself, not society or even a community. It doesn't have to represent the whole breadth of society.
If the maker is interested in woman it's not a bad thing. If it had been made by a women perhaps she'd have used a Chippendale image?