Leticia Bufoni is Skating’s Heartthrob + Most Punk
Leticia Bufoni poses in lingerie and (reportedly) has breast implants and also might be the punkest skateboarder on the planet? Don’t laugh.
Skateboarding as a female is already punk. Skateboarding as a female and acting feminine and enjoying showing off your sexuality is even more taboo. Leticia Bufoni doesn’t care. She’s doing her and making money and gaining respect amongst the hard to impress skateboard community. Taking the slam of the year and getting a Berrics ‘Battle Commander’ are just a few of her 2016 highlights. Recently she opened up to TWSkate about everything you wanna know….
“Over the past year or two you seem to have embraced the sort of dual role, posing in bikinis, naked, et cetera. Did you make a conscious decision to embrace that side, or is it just you being you?
I started getting offers to be in magazines, like, “Do you want to do a photo shoot?” Not in skateboarding but from outside of skateboarding. After I did my first one, I just liked it. I liked doing it. It was just fun, you know? That’s why I do the photo shoots. I know a lot of people talk shit because not a lot of skaters do that—but I do it because I like it. It’s fun to do something different and not only take photos of me skateboarding. Everything that I get from skateboarding, it’s because I skateboard. It’s not because I’m a model or something. So when people ask me to be in magazines, I do it—because I like it. It’s different, and I think it’s good to be representing skateboarding outside of our world.
Everyone who skateboards wants to be free to do what they like. That’s why we skate. If you like doing that, why not?
Yeah. I know a lot of people talk shit, but I like doing it. It’s just me being me. If I like doing it, I’m not going to stop just because someone else doesn’t like it. There are haters for everything. Everything you do there is somebody hating.
Just to play devil’s advocate, Lacey Baker stated she thought judging in girls’ contests was somewhat biased toward the more “girly” girls. Do you think that’s true?
I don’t agree with that. I don’t think it makes any difference at all. Because when I’m skating I dress like them. I don’t agree with that. I think that you can be beautiful and skate and not get high scores just because you’re beautiful.”
Click over to Transworld SKATEboarding for the full interview with Leticia Bufoni
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