Lauren Jauregui Poses For Playboy, Opens Up About Life After Fifth Harmony

We still have a couple months before Fifth Harmony’s hiatus officially starts, nevertheless Lauren Jauregui is already looking ahead to her solo career.


The 21-year-old poses for Playboy in an intimate new photo shoot, and in the accompanying interview, she opens up about her post-5H plans.


“Right right now, I’m just exploring myself and getting in touch with myself creatively. To be real, I don’t wish to give myself boundaries,” she mentioned, adding that she’s influenced by genres as diverse as pop, electronica, and Cuban music. “It’s certainly different than my work with Fifth Harmony. It’s me.”


Though Jauregui mentioned she has no plans to record solo music just although, she’s looking forward to showing fans who she is outdoor of Fifth Harmony. Immediately considering that, the categorize formed once she was only 16, and she has a much more realized sense of self now.


“We tried our best to be ourselves, [but] we were adolescents, and you should think about who you were at that age and being thrown in front of cameras,” Jauregui mentioned about the 5H’s beginnings. “When you’re really disconnected from who you are and you’re ashamed of it, you could write and tell a story, however you could never really tell your story. That’s what separates a lot of artists from others — the connection.”


For right now, Jauregui has her opening stint on Halsey’s Hopeless Fountain Kingdom World Tour to look forward to. Besides that, she’s focusing on encouraging her fans to be mobile in social issues. She explained, “It’s so crazy how little people know about what they can do, about their rights, what they’re putting into their bodies and everything that’s going on globally. I believe that art is the core of what begins revolutions.”


She’s off to a good begin — at March For Our Lives in Washington D.C. This past weekend, Jauregui discussed to MTV News correspondent Gaby Wilson about the power of young people using their voices to spur change. Check out the complete interview below.