Karol G For Playboy’s Spring Issue

Today, Playboy, one of the world’s most globally recognized brands, revealed its new cover and interview starring Grammy Award-winning global superstar Karol G.

The breathtaking spread, photographed by Gray Sorrenti and styled by Katie Grand, shows the Colombian multihyphenate as never seen before raw, candid, and, as she puts it, in her “f**k it era.”

The cover is revealed just days away from Karol’s Coachella performance, where she will make history as the first Latina to ever headline the festival.

Playboy’s Spring Issue hits newsstands on April 14. Karol G’s full cover story is available to new and existing digital and/or digital-and-print subscribers only until the magazine arrives at newsstands nationwide.

In a vulnerable conversation with Emmy Award-winning journalist Paola Ramos, Karol speaks candidly about the weight of her global platform and her commitment to showing up authentically for her community.

The story both its photography and Karol G’s own words mark a revealing, vulnerable, and empowered moment for the global star. Newly liberated, she is (much like Playboy), boldly stepping into her next chapter.And finally, for good measure, Karol shares how a candid conversation with the actress Sofia Vergara gave her the final push she needed to take the leap and grace Playboy’s cover.

The Spring Issue will also feature a reintroduction of iconic franchises like the Playboy Interview, the Playboy Advisor, and the Playmates of the Month as well as cartoons, fiction, and feature reporting. It is the first under Chief Brand Officer and Editor-in-Chief Phillip Picardi, whose appointment was announced last month.

• On her Coachella performance, pointing towards her rebirth: “When I received the call, I felt like a huge weight fell on me. They called me and told me – in Spanish – that I was going to be the first Latina to close the festival. I feel like it’s a show for my community, for the world, but it’s a show that’s very much for me.”

• On preparation going into the festival: “This is the first time in my life that I feel I’m going to see myself as the artist in the same caliber as the stage that I’m stepping on. I told [choreographer] Parris Goebel, ‘Don’t think of what I’m capable of; I want us to build the show that you dream of for me. Let’s unite our universes – you from dance, me from my Latina community. And I’ll figure out how to keep up’.”

• On the advice she received from Sofia Vergara about posing for Playboy: “The only person I asked if I should do it or not was Sofia Vergara. I called her and told her, ‘If you tell me not to do it, I won’t’. [Sofia’s response] ‘Mijita, with that body? When you get to this age, you tell yourself, Fuck, why didn’t I pose that one time? I should have posed more with a thong!'”

• On reclaiming her identity and the mixed reactions to her latest album Tropicoqueta: “I told my team I needed to stop. I needed to understand why everything that was happening to me was happening. So I went to Hawaii for a month. I chopped off my hair then… when you chop off your hair, the first thing people say is ‘She lost it!’ But maybe I was letting my wild Carolina do what she wanted to do. Maybe it meant regaining a little bit of control over myself, over my decisions, over the way I think without having an answer.

• On feeling no pressure to be a perfect Latina woman: “I kind of want people to push me out of that ‘perfect woman/good girl’ box, because I’m not perfect, and it’s not that I’m either good or bad. I am… human. And humans are imperfect. Beyond that, we are different. And so why do I want to do this [Playboy]? Because I want to. Because I grew up inspired by how beautiful the women in the magazine looked, and now I have the opportunity to be that beautiful, sexy mamasota in the magazine. Why not?”

• On defying cultural timelines: “As a good Latina from a traditional family, they teach you to give yourself fully to relationships, to a point where you can even lose yourself… In my case, people think I’m already behind. According to my culture, I should have kids by now. But you know what? This year has literally been like, Fuck it. I don’t feel like I’m behind. I actually feel that it’s beautiful that I’m living my process, that I’m evolving, that I’m learning.”

 

SHOOT CREDITS

Photographer: Gray Sorrenti

EIC: Phillip Picardi

Creative Direction: Marie Suter c/o Mini Mega Studio

Styling: Katie Grand

Hair Stylist: Bob Recine

Makeup Artist: Jamal Scott

Set Design: Happy Massee

Manicure: Kim Truong

Production: Connect The Dots

Executive Producer: Taylor Tindall c/o Mini Mega Studio

Talent: Special Projects

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