Lake Bell goes nude for New York Magazine cover

Lake Bell, the writer, director and star of In A World..., is on the cover of the latest issue of New York magazine, wearing nothing but a giant flower tattoo.

Bell posed for photographer Mark Seliger, who put a giant rose tattoo over her chest. On the cover, she’s seen with her hand between her legs. The magazine’s cover designer finished it off with some expertly-placed words.

She told the magazine that she had to go to a wedding in the Hamptons right after the shoot, so she didn’t have time to have the tattoo removed. “I had a spaghetti-strap maxi-dress on and I came in with this massive flower on my chest, and nobody said a word,” she said. After she told her godmother that it wasn’t real, everyone relaxed. “Everyone was apparently abuzz behind my back.”

In another shot, she posed nude with her tattoo artist husband, Scott Campbell. They met while Bell was filming the ill-fated HBO show How to Make It in America in 2011. As Us Weekly notes, she appeared topless on that show as well.

In A World... is about a woman trying to break into the business of movie trailer voiceovers, a male-dominated industry. She said that she hopes it can help her actualyl break into voice acting.

“I mean it,” she told New York Magazine. “This is a 93-minute audition to the voice-over world, hoping they will hear me.”

In A World... is Bell’s first film as a director and debuted in New York and Los Angeles on Friday.

image: New York Magazine

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