Marisa Miller, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue - 2008 Cover

Marisa Miller, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue - 2008 Cover - Photos

Allie @ Gone Hollywood | Tuesday, February 12, 2008

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Despite rumors that Bar Refaeli would be this years Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover model, it is in fact Marisa Miller.

Was she the best choice?

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Who is Marisa Miller?

Marisa Miller (born August 6, 1978) is an American supermodel. She is known for her many appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues and Victoria’s Secret catalogs.

Born Marisa Bertetta in Santa Cruz, California, she was first “discovered” at age 16 walking through a San Francisco café by two Italian modeling agents. After talking to her mom Krista Bertetta, she was on a plane to Italy with her mom a few months later. Marisa says that the most valuable thing that her mom has ever told her was “You can always go back to school but you may not always be able to model.” Marisa took her mom’s advice and soon gained attention when she appeared in a 1997 issue of Perfect 10 magazine.

In 2007, Marisa shot her first television commercial for Victoria’s Secret with fellow supermodel Heidi Klum, causing quite a stir unexpectedly drawing more attention than Klum, as well as appearing in a cameo on the HBO show Entourage. Marisa was also featured as a model on the pilot episode of the new VH1 reality show The Shot.

On November 26, 2007, Marisa made a special guest appearance on How I Met Your Mother (episode: “The Yips”) with her fellow Victoria’s Secret supermodels (Alessandra Ambrosio, Adriana Lima, Selita Ebanks, Miranda Kerr, and Heidi Klum).

Egotastic has a grand display of the other models in the issue.

source: [sports illustrated]

[NSFW Pictures are after the jump!]

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