Yoli Lara Bio
Yoli Lara is a Puerto-Rican actress, glamour and nude model. She was born on September 14, 1997, in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, and has also been credited as Lara Yolimar. Playboy named her its June 2019 Playmate at 21. Her appearance came during Playboy's contemporary era of international and digital publishing.
Lara has natural breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 34-25-35.
Yoli Lara was raised in Puerto Rico by her mother and grandmother, and the island remained central to the way she described herself even after modeling took her elsewhere. She spoke of a particularly strong connection to the ocean and the beach, something she associated directly with growing up surrounded by water. Pursuing modeling eventually required leaving that familiar environment for Los Angeles and building a professional life far from her family.
Hurricane Maria brought Lara back to Puerto Rico in 2017 under very different circumstances. In the aftermath of the storm, she worked with Waves for Water on efforts to provide clean water to communities affected by the disaster, including her hometown. The experience placed modeling temporarily behind more immediate concerns and gave her a practical role in the recovery taking place around her.
During that period, Lara also decided to compete for Miss Puerto Rico in the Miss Universe system. She told her mother that she wanted to use the competition as a platform for issues she cared about, including what she had witnessed after the hurricane. Lara did not win the title, but she later spoke about the experience without regret and returned to Los Angeles in 2018 to resume pursuing modeling.
The next opportunity arrived unusually quickly. Lara said she had been back in Los Angeles for less than two weeks when Playboy approached her. She interpreted the timing as validation that leaving home again had been the right decision, while also emphasizing that she wanted the resulting visibility to give her something more substantial than another modeling credit. Her pictorial was photographed by Ana Dias, whose clean, sunlit style framed Lara with a comparatively restrained visual approach.
Lara described accepting the Playboy shoot partly as an opportunity to speak about women’s power and the value of having something to say beyond appearance. Her comments repeatedly returned to positivity, awareness and using whatever public platform became available to her. The relief work she undertook after Hurricane Maria remained the clearest example of that outlook, connecting her modeling career back to Puerto Rico and the community in which she had grown up.
