Yoli Lara by Ana Dias for Playboy US Spring 2019

Playmate, Yoli Lara will take your breath away. On location in her native Puerto Rico, Yoli shows us her radiant and kind spirit as the photographer, Ana Dias captures her. “My island is everything to me,” she says. Bouncing around town, Yoli takes us to all her most loved places: the market, the skate park, and her absolute favorite, the ocean. “For me, the beach is everything,” she gushes. “I was born on an island, so I feel very tied to the ocean. Most people are like, ‘Oh, we’re going to the beach!’ But for me, it’s a spiritual, cleansing adventure.” Looking stunning, Yoli is all smiles as she shows off her lovely curves. “I wasn’t a conventional model,” she says, recalling some of her first castings. “Like all the women in my family, I have a tiny waist and big hips. I’m used to it now, but at those early castings, I would always hear, ‘You’re perfect, but your hips are too big,’ and I would be like, 'that’s literally how my body is. I can’t just grow or shrink.' I learned that the job entails rejection,” she says. Since then, Yoli has loved the progress the business is making. “I’m grateful that industries now are more inclusive regarding race, shape, color, and gender,” she says.