Bianca Balti – born in the bucolic town of Lodi in
northern Italy – home to midieval castles and cathedrals and a landscape
carved by the waters of the Po River – Bianca Balti is an Italian
flower plucked from the dreams of all men. The blue-eyed beauty was
discovered in a supermarket at the age of 20 and, eager to share herself
with the world, immediately left the countryside for brighter lights.
“Lodi was too quiet for me,” she says. “I went to Milan as soon as I was
able.” She has since walked the runway for Chanel, done print campaigns
for Dolce & Gabbana and Christian Dior, appeared in the pages of
Vogue Italia and, at last, posed for Playboy. “There is no value in not
showing my body,” she says. “A naked body is a beautiful thing. Even God
thinks so. When I’m naked, I feel angelic.” We photographed Bianca in a
remote area of Malibu against a majestic backdrop of mountains and sea,
a worthy paradise that encapsulates the peace and serenity she
identifies as the root of happiness. “When I was a child, my dreams were
always of the water, the sand, the beach, she says, “but I’ve learned
to be a soldier of live, to accept the unexpected, to fight and grow.”
Marked by the passion and romanticism that have defined the women of her
country for centuries, Bianca speaks about love unabashedly. “The real
value of my body is that I truly give it only to the man in my life,”
she says. “A man who makes me feel loved and respected, who lets me
dream in his arms and the warmth of my own bed, who makes me feel sexy
and thus confident, and who knows only he can make me feel that way.”
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