I don’t really know much about Kate Upton other than she is hot, is a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition model, has a Twitter account oh and did I mention she is hot?
There isn’t much for me to say about these photos other than she is hot and looks incredible in a bikini. So since today is International Women’s Day I decided I would post these photos to celebrate all the women out there. You’re welcome.
Former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, Stephanie Seymour has been vacationing in St. Barths with her family and showing off her sexy curves in a nude-colored bathing suit.
But Seymour, 42, still managed to get caught in some unflattering photos. In the photos, she appears to be touchy-feely with Peter Brant Jr. — her 17-year-old son. Perhaps it was purely innocent, but there’s still a certain “Eww” factor.
Seymour and her husband Peter Brant reunited for the family getaway. The pair called off their divorce in November and decided to give it another shot.
The couple declined to comment but issued a joint statement, saying, “The parties have withdrawn their divorce action and are reconciling. They ask that their privacy be respected.”
But… has Peter seen this?
Seymour has modeled since she was 16 and was a model for Victoria Secret and Sports Illustrated.
It’s been quite a year in the world of sports, with the World Cup and the Winter Olympics both on. Because of this, Sports Illustrated have come up with their 8 best female athletes of the year (in no particular order).
Marit Bjorgen, Norway (cross-country skiing)
The 30-year-old Nordic veteran led athletes across all sports with five Olympic medals in Vancouver. Three were gold — in the individual sprint, individual pursuit, and 4×5-kilometer relay. Better know for her sprints, Bjorgen nevertheless won silver in the 30k classical and 10k freestyle. It was quite a step up from the 2006 Games where she suffered from bronchitis and won only a silver. In 2010, Bjorgen added to her total of sprint victories and now stands alone at the top of the World Cup circuit with 23 for her career.
Kim Yu-Na,South Korea (figure skating)
Kim won the ladies title at the Vancouver Winter Games, capturing Korea’s first Olympic figure skating medal. She did it by earning the highest marks in both the short program (78.50) and the long (150.06), establishing a new record for highest combined score (228.56) since the sport changed to its current scoring tables. Though she trained primarily in Canada, away from the national spotlight, Kim was under enormous pressure to win gold for her country as the reigning world champion and Korea’s most recognized and best-compensated athlete. In her free skate in Vancouver, she landed six triple jumps and skated a stunning routine to Gershwin, living up to her nickname “Queen Yu-na.”
Aliya Mustafina, Russia, gymnastics
Mustafina handily won the all-around title at the World Championships in Rotterdam, besting the field by more than a point. She also took gold in the team event and silver medals in the vault, uneven bars and floor. It was a superb comeback during a season that began poorly for the 16-year-old from Moscow. In March, she had to withdraw from the Russian nationals because of an ankle injury she sustained in training. In Rotterdam, Mustafina showed her consistency in all four events, but has since become recognized for a unique skill on bars: a 1-½ twisting tucked double-back. Her showing in Rotterdam gave made her the very early favorite for the 2012 London Olympics, where she may one-up her father, Fargat Mustafin, a bronze medalist in wrestling for the former Soviet Union at the 1976 Games.
Martina Sablikova, Czech Republic, long-track speedskating
The 23-year old was the year’s most dominant distance skater, winning gold medals in the 3,000- and 5,000-meter races at the Vancouver Games, where she also took bronze in the 1,500. Sablikova won the allround title at the European Championships in Hamar, Norway and at the World Championships in Heerenveen, Netherlands, bringing her total of world titles to nine. Since there are no oval skating arenas in her native country, Sablikova has had to import a fair amount of cross-training into her preparation. This past summer, she also won the Czech national road cycling and time-trail championships, and says she harbors thoughts of becoming a summer Olympian one day.
Rebecca Soni, USA, swimming
Soni, 23, had a dominant year in the breaststroke. She won national titles at both 100- and 200-meters, taking the second event by nearly a full five seconds. She then captured three gold medals — two individual and a relay — at the Pan Pacific Championships in Irvine, Calif., setting a championship record each time despite the change to less dynamic swimsuits that the sport required in 2010. At the FINA Short Course World Swimming Championships in Dubai, Soni took home three more golds and a silver, setting four championship records in the process. In November, USA Swimming gave her the Golden Goggles award as national female swimmer of the year.
Blanka Vlasic, Croatia, track and field
In February, Vlasic set a personal-best (2.06 meters) to win the high jump at the World Indoor Championships in Arnstadt, Germany. Indoors, she recorded the three best jumps in the world and five of the top six. Outdoors, where she had seven of the highest 11 marks for the year, Vlasic, 27, jumped 2.05, her season’s best, to win the Continental Cup at her home stadium in Split. The two-time world champ and 2008 Olympic silver medalist is long past the hyperthyroid malady that first derailed her at the Athens Games. The daughter of Josko Vlasic, Croatia’s national record-holder in the decathlon, and Vanera, a basketball player and cross-country skier, Blanka has long been a favorite in her home nation. She was voted its athlete of the year for the sixth time and was also named the IAAF’s World Female Athlete of the Year.
Lindsey Vonn , USA, alpine skiing
Vonn became the first American woman to win the Olympic downhill and later took bronze in the Super-G despite a severely bruised shin that hampered her training. She later suffered a broken finger during a crash in the fog on the giant slalom run, but still won the overall World Cup title for the third straight season and also placed first in the downhill, super-G and combined events, firmly establishing herself as the world’s premier skier in the alpine speed disciplines and passing Bode Miller for the top spot among U.S. skiers in career World Cup titles, a total that now stands at 36 after three more victories this season. The Associated Press chose Vonn, 26, as its female Athlete of the Year.
Wang Meng, China, short-track speedskating
Wang became the most decorated Chinese Winter Olympian in history by winning gold medals in the 500-meters, 1,000-meters and 3,000-meter relay at the Vancouver Games. She had also won gold, silver and bronze in 2006 and has 14 world titles to her credit after taking the 500 and 1,000 in Sofia, Bulgaria this year. The 25-year-old was utterly dominant at the Olympics in the shortest sprint, which she led from wire to wire. On a down note, in the 1,500-meters, her weakest individual race, she lost an edge and crashed into the restraining barricade, losing out on a chance for a sweep.
Back in February when I posted Brooklyn Decker‘s spread and cover for Sports Illustraded Magazine I never noticed that they completely photoshopped out her nipples.
Well thanks to CelebSlam, who somehow managed to get their hands on the uncencsored photos, we can now see what the original photos were like. These make the photos even hotter.
Brooklyn Decker has been revealed as the as the Sports Illustrated covergirl for the 2010 Swimsuit Issue.
The cover was revealed on The Late Show with David Letterman on Monday night and the model will now do her round of talk show visits to promote the cover.
After the cover was released the 22-year-old took to her Twitter to say “I cried three times because family flew in to surprise me! The issue is amazing, glowing, fun, the girls are happy… it’s not over-the-top, the girls and editors should be so proud! THANK YOU ALL!!!”
Lindsey Vonn is hoping the Sports Illustrated cover jinx doesn’t cross international borders. America’s great Winter Olympic hope is featured on the front of SI’s Winter Olympic preview issue, which hit newsstands Wednesday.
Vonn’s semi-provocative pose has drawn the predictable ire from those who claim that it objectifies her. She’s an athlete, not a sex symbol, the chorus inevitably reminds us. They have a point in taking issue with SI; the magazine rarely features women athletes on the cover and its annual swimsuit issue has been a focus of protests for decades. But Vonn’s cover is different.
The pose at least resembles the tuck stance skiers like Vonn take when barreling down the hill. It’s exaggerated, of course, but not gratuitously so. It’s not as if SI put her in a bikini in a Whistler hot tub.
Also, this is Vonn’s moment. If she wins multiple golds in Vancouver, Vonn has the potential to become a major crossover star. She’d be like Michael Phelps, only with better looks and an actual personality. Landing on the SI cover is a good way for her to start the Vonn saturation campaign. It’s as important for her as it is the magazine.
The pose is suggestive, sure, but it’s not objectifying. The headline reads “America’s best woman skier ever”, for Jean-Claude’s sake! Why can’t she be both the best skier in the world and really, really attractive too? Tom Brady’s a great athlete and a handsome dude and I don’t hear people whine when he’s shirtless in GQ.
Most importantly, this cover is almost identical to the one that ran on SI’s Winter Olympic preview in 1992. That one featured a gentleman named A.J. Kitt and I’m pretty sure nobody was complaining about that one being too provocative
source: Let the Lindsey hype begin: Vonn is Sports Illustrated cover girl [yahoo sports]
I had no idea that Ashley Greene was doing a photo shoot for Sports Illustrated until about 5 minutes ago when I came (keep your jokes to yourself) across these images.
The Twilight actress is apparently doing the photoshoot to sponsor Sobe, all while being nude in nothing but a body painted bikini.
Could they not skip the body paint and just have her in all of her glory? Ashley Greene is hot, in fact she’s the main interest I watch the mess that is the Twilight movies.
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source: Ashley Greene in a Body Paint Bikini [The Superficial]
Ashley Greene is wearing nothing in her new ad for SoBe zero calorie Cherimoya Punch and Strawberry Dragonfruit drinks. Do I really need to say much more than that?
The “Twilight” actress was wearing a painted on scales skinsuit for her new commercial. SoBe has announced that you can enter their sweepstakes to win a trip to Las Vegas from now until January 29th.
Of her photoshoot, Ashley says, “Being a part of the SoBe skinsuit shoot in the Turks and Caicos was amazing. It took the artist 12 hours to paint the SoBe scales on each skinsuit, but it was totally worth it. It’s an experience I’ll never forget.”
The photos will appear in the Swimsuit Issue of “Sports Illustrated.”
source: Ashley Green Is SoBe-eautiful – [justjaredjr]
Someone from Sports Illustrated has twittered some photos previewing Bar Refaeli in the 2010 Swimsuit Edition.
There is not much that I can really say, except holy shit I am excited to see the rest of the images. Hopefully more people on photoshoots start twittering some candid photos of models.
Bar Refaeli in a bikini is always a winner for me.
So now you know that Bar Rafaeli is on the cover of the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue and have seen her very nice photoshoot, I feel I should give you some more models that are featured in the magazine.
Right now you get to look at the very hot Brooklyn Decker, who has been featured in the Swimsuit issue three times in the past, making this the fourth time.
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I love that she is nude and only has bodypaint on her … showing that Brooklyn Decker is a woman after my heart.
Guess who is the cover girl for the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue? Okay yes the title for the post gives you the answer and it is none other than Bar Refaeli.
On his show last night, David Letterman announced the 23-year-old Israeli model would be on the cover for the magazine which is out now so you you go buy it.
On the editors picking the cover shot Refaeli says “this is the one I felt the most comfortable with, you have the beach, blue water and a body. That’s it. I liked that the top of the suit was on.”
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Now that she is on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue you can expect to see lots lots more of Bar Refaeli, as the cover makes a model’s career explode. No complaints from me as long as she continues to do sexy photoshoots like this one.
Vonn’s semi-provocative pose has drawn the predictable ire from those who claim that it objectifies her. She’s an athlete, not a sex symbol, the chorus inevitably reminds us. They have a point in taking issue with SI; the magazine rarely features women athletes on the cover and its annual swimsuit issue has been a focus of protests for decades. But Vonn’s cover is different.
