Lani Todd Nude
“I can play any role,” says Lani Todd. “I get bored sticking to the same style, so I love to change skins — a dominatrix one day, a rodeo girl the next. It’s a fantasy and a total turn-on.” The 21-year-old culture chameleon grew up in rural Pennsylvania, where she was home-schooled. “We were all artsy-fartsy kids,” she says. “When I was 14, I taught myself how to play the guitar and became the lead singer in a local punk-chick band.” Miss December says when she returns to Florida, where she has lived for two years and works as a cosmetologist and a model, she’s going to get her groove back by taking guitar and voice lessons. “I’m strong-willed,” she says. “I think people shouldn’t tell you what you can and cannot do. I also believe in monogamy, but just because I love somebody doesn’t mean he owns me, and vice versa. I listen to people talk about their relationships and I nearly bite my tongue off wanting to say, ‘Let them live!’ My boyfriend understands this and we get a real kick out of each other. I love going with him to an old redwood Victorian inn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania that has the most beautiful ambience. All you want to do after having a delicious dinner and some wine is go home and make love. I take life one day at a time and do everything that I can to be good to people. It’s a basic philosophy, but it’s what I live by.”
Photography by Arny Freytag and Jarmo Pohjaniemi