Get Ready to Drool! Ian Somerhalder Sizzles in Defy Magazine (PHOTOS)

Nina Dobrev’s been gracing countless magazine covers these days, but her real-life love Ian Somerhalder is giving her a run for her money!

Featured on the Fall 2012 cover of men’s lifestyle magazine Defy, the Vampire Diaries star reveals how his personal humanitarian and ecological efforts are encouraging big changes around the world!

Click through our gallery to ogle all the droolworthy pics, then pick up your copy of the mag — on newsstands September 18 — or purchase the digital version to read the full interview!