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Danielle Leder: It’s weird when everyone makes a point to go "It’s a woman! It’s a woman!" Yeah, I'm a woman. But I am also the most perverted person you’ll ever meet. I like women. I like making us look a certain way. I like to perceive the female form.Why did you pick betrayal to be the theme for the new issue?
They all have themes that inspire me. The last one was the "Voyeur Issue." It was actually based on my neighbor upstairs. She was totally voyeuristic. She could only get off watching her husband have sex with other women. Now, it’s betrayal, because I was betrayed by the man I held the absolute closest—my husband.How did he betray you?
He ran off with my last cover girl and then used Jacques money to make a film I co-wrote with him. It’s based on my life as a stripper in Tampa, Florida. Ultimately, after he got caught, we went up to Woodstock to work out our relationship. I started to grow strength and realized I didn’t need him anymore.How did you get married?
I got pregnant with our first child, and I ended up having a miscarriage. I was completely devastated, because I was never supposed to be able to get pregant in the first place.Why?
Endometriosis. Like, third stage. It is an overgrowth of tissue that blocks everything.Instead of thinking, OK, now I can have children—but this is not the man I should have children with, I just needed to have another baby. So I got pregnant with my son Jack. That was a crazy pregnancy. Do you believe in ghosts?
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After the miscarriage, I was super upset. I actually held our—I don’t know, baby—in my hand. It was a little bit bigger than a peanut. One night I had a nightmare, where I remember a weird, white creature over me. Then he was sitting in the corner making this gesture with his hand like, You’ll thank me in the morning. I woke up screaming. I could hear his feet running out of the room. When I got back from Paris, I found out that I was pregnant.So you think a ghost impregnated you?
I’m not saying that. Maybe it was a premonition. Who knows.So then you had your first child, Jack, and created your magazine, Jacques?
I lost a lot of blood when I gave birth. Exactly 11 days later, I was in the bathroom and passed a blood clot larger than my fist. We went to the hospital, only to find out that I still had placenta attached to my uterus.I ended up in the ICU. The average person has six liters of blood in their body; it was estimated that I had a liter and a half. I came home and was confined to bed. So, I was like, Fuck it—we're starting a magazine. I laid in bed and began a mock-up of Jacques.

He has taken absolutely everything [else] from me.So you are trying to get what you can back?
Exactly. Jacques is everything. It’s all I have left. It really truly is. What else could I do? Go back to being a stripper?
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I have always been a sexual person. I was doing an interview yesterday and someone asked, “What happened to you when you were a child?”That's where it started. My father taped over my Mary Poppins tape with porn by accident. One minute I am watching Mary Poppins and the next, there's this beautiful brunette with a short bob in bed with a hairy guy. I grew up and would get caught letting boys look up my skirt. When I was 18, I started working as a stripper in Tampa. I’ve always been a perverted little creature—what can I say?The porn that you produce in Jacques has been seen to be female friendly. A lot of girls are reading it.
Because I showcase us as we really are. I don’t do retouching. To me, if you are a real photographer, you shoot everything on film. I look at other magazines and I know that's not what that girl looks like, so it gives people unrealistic expectations of women. It’s really important to change that—so maybe that's what women like.What is in the future for Jacques? What should readers expect from Danielle Leder?
I am either going to end up running Playboy, or I'm going to bury them deep into the ground. And it’s not that it’s going to happen right away—it’s probably going to take a few years—but I am going to do it. Most of the press that I have ever gotten directly compares me to Hugh Hefner and Playboy.People like me and Hugh Hefner and Bob Guccione are really passionate about this. I'm not just some guy who started a nudie magazine because I like to fuck girls or want money from investors who would only invest in Jacques because they want to hang out with pretty chicks. That’s not why I'm in this. That’s what makes me different from all of the others.