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Published 08:58 15 Jul 2026 GMT
The latest star to grace the cover of Playboy magazine is one of the world’s most famous models who recently turned to acting and singing, but her high profile is not the most shocking part about the provocative pic.
The summer 2026 issue is fronted by a (literally) smoking hot picture of Cara Delevingne, 33, sporting the brand’s iconic black latex corset, holding a match up to light a cigarette and covering her nude genitals with the other.
While the magazine, which has been around since the 50s, this issue will be the first to feature a lesbian on the front cover.
The 2012 and 2014 Model of the Year has been open about her fluid sexuality since 2020 but recently told Spanish chart-topping singer Rosalia that she now identifies as a lesbian and “has a weakness for straight women.”
On social media, the erotic publication teased who the latest cover star would be, sharing a risque picture of a soapy torso covered in dainty but distinguishable tattoos.
In other pictures that feature in the magazine accompanying her interview with best-selling author Ottessa Moshfegh, Delevingne wears Playboy’s signature bunny ears and tail paired with a skimpy black torso.
Speaking to Moshfegh, the singer, who has just released two singles, I Forgot and Out of My Head, said: "The iconography of it, the Bunny—it's fun to…take back ownership of it and turn it into something else.
“I've been naked before in shoots, in movies. But it always made me feel a bit gross when it was for someone else—of course, it was my choice and I agreed to it, but it never felt empowering.
“But today I had so much fun. I've never felt more comfortable in my body and in my sexuality."
The ease she felt stripping down on set was largely because she “worked with a predominantly female team [for the cover shoot] to feel agency over her body, appearing nude and embracing her image.”
Delevingne was photographed by Zoey Grossman and styled by Lana Jay Lackey, two well-loved female creatives.
Playboy teased what the latest issue’s cover star revealed in the tell-all interview that accompanies the sexy snaps in a caption on Instagram.
The post read: Delevingne peels back the layers to get into her battle with addiction, the journey to sobriety, and redefining her own sexuality without the need for approval from others. "I used to put a higher value on sex and validation from people. I used to think, "Oh, I'm a pervert. I'm a really horny person." But I think [I was] seeking love and validation through sex."
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Published 11:43 28 Mar 2019 GMT
There aren't many people that are open enough about their sexuality and love life to speak about it candidly - even with a close friend. So it comes as some surprise that model-turned-actress Cara Delevingne opened up in a very NSFW way about all of the above - in a podcast interview.
The 26-year-old spoke about boyfriends, girlfriends, her sexuality, past relationships, and what her love life looks like today. Delevingne, who is currently dating Pretty Little Liars actress Ashley Benson, was on RuPaul's podcast 'What's the Tee?', where she revealed that she finds it much easier "give" pleasure (in all its forms) than to receive it.
"I'm very good at giving love and not at receiving it. I'm the same in bed," she said. "I find it quite difficult to receive pleasure and love and things like that, so I love to give."
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In the interview she spoke on her different experiences with both men and women, and how she views her sexuality today. That includes not only her orientation, but her habits too - which have changed over the years.
"I used to go to clubs but I'd rather have sex than go out now," she told the host, before getting into her thoughts on sex in general:
"Part of sex - that connection - is feral. You meet someone but when you go in the bedroom, it's another animal.
"To me, that is so interesting. There are certain people who are super-sexy and they flirt with you, then you have sex with them and they are terrible. But I like people who seem really prudish then, when they get in the bedroom, they're like, 'What?!' It's like a whole transformation."
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Delevingne has had a lot of exes in the entertainment business, including Harry Styles and Jake Bugg, and was rumoured to have been romantically linked to Michelle Rodriguez, Paris Jackson and Rita Ora. Her longest high-profile relationship was with Annie Clark, known by her stage name as St. Vincent, which ended in 2016.
She has been dating Benson for just shy of a year, with rumours first circulating in May last year.
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With regards to her orientation, she previously told PEOPLE that she changed her mind "all the time," but has since identified as "sexually fluid".
"I can allow pleasure but it's hard to find that person. I have found them before, for sure. That whole courting process of power is very interesting. And it's a different with men and women.
"I'm always very submissive with men. Always. But with women, I'm the opposite. So it's weird."
According to the actress, much of her sexuality was learned from the movies she watched - with Disney films giving her some important lessons along the way, even some she had to un-learn.
"Films and fantasy and books were so incredible to me and I learned so many lessons from that," she said. "That was why I never wanted to accept my sexuality. Disney princesses all love men and that's the way it is. And I'm not going to be a princess if I don't like men."
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Delevingne will also be appearing on an episode of RuPaul's Drag Race, which airs this week.
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Published 10:11 09 Jun 2020 GMT
27-year-old actress and model Cara Delevingne has spoken about her pansexual identity in a new interview with Variety.
In the interview, Delevingne explains that she falls in love with the person, however they define themselves. “I always will remain, I think, pansexual,” she said, "However one defines themselves, whether it’s ‘they’ or ‘he’ or ‘she,’ I fall in love with the person — and that’s that. I’m attracted to the person.”
Sadly, acceptance has not always been easy to come by for the actress, who recalled an encounter she had with Harvey Weinstein early in her career. “Harvey was one of the people that told me I couldn’t be with a woman and also be an actress,” she revealed, “I had to have a beard.
"To me, the idea of having a beard was - I'd heard it happen before - I just felt so disheartened by it. Do you have a conversation with a dude, and they're like, 'I'm going to pretend to be with you but not really love you?'
"I kind of think when I was pushed more that way, I realized how much more I needed to go the other way."
Per Variety, it was in 2018 that Delevingne told her fans that she identified as sexually fluid. “I never thought I needed to come out,” she revealed, "It was just kind of like, ‘This is who I am. Just so you know.’”
Recently, Delevingne broke up with her girlfriend, the former star of Pretty Little Liars, Ashley Benson. Though she did not discuss the relationship in detail, Delevingne did allude to the toll of dating someone so publicly, with both members of the relationship being incredibly famous.
“I’ve always felt bad for anyone I’ve ever been in a relationship with,” she said. “It’s very hard to maintain the normality in it. I think it’s why I tend to keep my private life a lot more private now, because that public thing can actually ruin a lot of things.”
You can read the full interview with Cara Delevingne right here.
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Published 14:39 05 Oct 2021 GMT
Playboy has made history after featuring their first openly gay man on the digital cover.
Bretman Rock, a social media beauty influencer, graces the magazine's October issue in what is a first for Playboy, NBC News reports.
The 23-year-old donned the iconic black bunny corset – complete with bunny ears, cufflinks, and bowtie, as he posed for a series of sultry shots for the magazine.
While it isn’t the first time Playboy has featured a man on the cover, Rock is the third to feature solo after the late Hugh Hefner and Puerto Rican rapper, Bad Bunny.
What's more, he is the first openly gay man to grace the cover of the magazine, which has gone fully digital in 2020.
The magazine took to Twitter with the announcement, writing: "It's Bretman, b***h," alongside a clip of Rock strutting and posing for the cover.
"For Playboy to have a male on the cover is a huge deal for the LGBT community, for my brown people community and it’s all so surreal. A total ‘is this even f***ing happening right now?’ type of vibe. And I’m so pretty," Rock told Playboy.
He later celebrated the milestone by sharing two of his Playboy shots with his 5.7 million Twitter followers.
"I'm a Playboy bunny DUHHHHHH," he wrote.
The Filipino beauty influencer rose to stardom on YouTube and Vine, where he posted a series of makeup tutorials and his humorous views on life.
Shortly after, he became inundated with brand offers, mostly with major makeup companies such as Morphe and Wet n Wild.
Speaking about the iconic bunny outfit which has been sported by everyone from Dolly Parton to Kate Moss, a Playboy senior manager, said: "Bunnies like wearing it for different reasons."
"Some see it as playful and nostalgic; others see it as badass empowerment. We don’t need to define it for them," they added.
Last year, fellow beauty influencer Victoria Volkova became the first transgender woman to appear on the cover of Playboy Mexico.
Anthony Allen Ramos, LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD’s head of talent, praised Playboy’s inclusion of Rock on its cover, calling it a "powerful step forward in the ongoing movement towards greater diversity and inclusion in fashion and modeling."
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Published 12:44 13 Mar 2019 GMT
A Victoria Secret model has claimed she was once forced to pose naked for a "high-profile" magazine shoot.
Bridget Malcolm, who has walked in shows including Ralph Lauren and Stella McCartney, recently wrote a blog post on her website that candidly described an incident in which she felt "completely coerced and unsafe" by the photographer in question.
The 26-year-old revealed that she had been "assured" that there was no nudity involved in the photo shoot; however, after they began, she was informed that she had to strip off completely for "editing purposes".
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Describing the incident, she wrote that she was "intensely uncomfortable, and initially showed hesitation" but was "pushed and pushed" to the point where she was "completely naked on a busy set".
"As there were a lot of mirrors in the room, he asked for everyone to leave the set," she wrote. "Not because I was naked and uncomfortable with a dozen strangers gawking at me, but so that he could get a clear shot. Later that evening we were shooting outside. The only thing I was wearing was a fur coat, and I was aware that there were people watching us from the street."
She continued: "He asked me to take the coat off, and I refused. He asked again, and I refused. He asked again, and this time I took it off, feeling completely coerced and unsafe. The stylist was a woman, and she attempted to shield me from the street.
"The shoot ended with me in tears, needing to take a minute to get my composure back. The photographer then came over and apologized, claiming that he didn’t realize we had an audience. I truly would love to believe him."
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The Australian star went on to explain the effect that incident had on her, stating she felt "guilty about betraying the line that I thought I had drawn in the sand" and linked her feelings back to being a young girl. She wrote that young girls are taught "what you are feeling is not as important as your male counterparts, that their urges and experiences are much more intense and 'out of control' than yours".
"I feel that my family growing up did a good job of trying to keep things balanced between my brother and I," she continued. "But it is hard to mitigate the message that most of us do not realize is being forced down our throats the second we leave the womb. It is only recently that I have begun to feel my place on the earth, and to vocally embrace it."
After revealing she'd been through "a lot of reading, therapy and painful work" to reach a good place, she claimed she was at her "smallest" while doing the naked shoot and "lacked the certainty in my rights that I now have".
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Discussing her "confidence in my right to say no," Bridget said that while it "saddens" her that she didn't walk off-set the second the photographer refused to take her seriously, she was "glad I had such a traumatic experience" because "it opened my eyes to the way the world works, forcing me to begin the work of reclaiming the right to my life".
The model - who revealed that no nudity was published in the magazine in the end - now describes herself as "a woman defined by women" and wrote that she knew that no blame lay with her for the photo shoot.
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"It lies first with the photographer, but larger with the culture that allows for men like that photographer to function and thrive," she put, adding that she relied on the close, loving friendships she had with her female friends to get her through in life.
She finished the piece writing: "We are at an interesting time where we are able to take back our power, and align ourselves with the lives we should have always had the right to live. And this process begins always with conversation."
You can read the full post here.
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Published 16:19 01 Feb 2022 GMT
Cara Delevingne has revealed that she's already in the habit of buying clothes for her future child.
In a new interview with Harper's Bazaar UK, the 29-year-old model revealed that she recently invested in some baby clothes as she's "manifesting" her child.
"I want to have babies," she told the publication. "But not yet. I buy children's clothes for my future child who doesn't exist."
She added: "Baby shoes really get me – they break my heart. I went shopping the other day and I bought these tiny Air Jordans, which are purple and they have a lion on them. I'm manifesting."
Delevingne, who identifies as pansexual, also spoke about coming to terms with her sexuality as a teenager, revealing that the lack of LGBT+ role models she saw growing up had an adverse effect on her.
"I do think I would have hated myself less, I would have not been so ashamed, if I'd had someone," she said. "The one thing I’m happy about growing up queer and fighting it and hiding it is it gives me so much fire and drive to try to make people’s lives easier in some way by talking about it."
The model also spoke about some of her past relationships, with the likes of actor Ashley Benson and musician St Vincent (whose real name is Annie Clark), which have been highly publicized.
"When you have a relationship, there’s definitely an element of it being exposed, especially with coming out and being in public relationships, like when I was with Annie," Delevingne said.
"But now I really value my privacy so much, so no one can put their ideas and comments on it."
It comes after Cara said that her sisters "did their best to be there" for her as she admitted "growing up as a queer child was isolating and hard to navigate at times".
She said she saw her sisters Chloe, 37, and Poppy, 35, as the "epitome of the woman I wanted to be".
"I saw my sisters as the epitome of the woman I wanted to be. I soon realized that I couldn't be the same - all of us have different paths - but they showed me the most fundamental things that I had to learn in life," she recently told The Sunday Times.
She went on: "Growing up as a queer child was isolating and hard to navigate at times. My sisters did their best to be there for me but it was something I had to go through myself to truly know who I was.
"I'm still on that journey and will continue to be for the rest of my life."