Esquire is featuring Monica Bellucci’s new book of photographs, Nine Ways.
The beautiful Bellucci offers up a collection of photographs by some of the world’s best photographers.
When I was a young girl I would daydream while looking at the photographs by Helmut Newton, Bruce Weber, and Richard Avedon, but I never had the body of a model. I was tall, but not tall enough, and curvaceous without ever wanting to be thin. I’ve never sought the perfection dictated by laws of the fashion world. Maybe it’s because I don’t believe in perfection or in any law that demands that we all look the same. Yet this book represents more than twenty years of my life in front of a camera. I’ve offered myself to its gaze, with creativity, and also by giving into my femininity.
