There will be three separate covers issued featuring solo shots of each girl. However, since then, she has hosted Saturday Night Live and begun training for her next fight, per TMZ (via Scott Rafferty of Rolling Stone). She was photographed alongside Philomena Kwao, 26, size 14.
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This marks Graham’s first appearance on the Sports Illustrated roster. “There is no flawless body, and we shouldn’t be striving for perfection anymore”. Beauty is not “one size fits all.’ Beauty is all around us and that became especially obvious to me while shooting and editing this year’s issue”.
Rousey said it was an honor to be part of the groundbreaking covers.
Graham and Kwao are not the first plus-sized models featured in the swimsuit issue, previous year Robyn Lawley, size 12, was pictured. That decade-long tenure included a stint as cover girl in 2011, a first for a Russian model. As Sports Illustrated describes, “Chrissy Teigen will present the award to the iconic businesswoman who has left a lasting impact on the fashion, entertainment and beauty industries since her introduction into the industry as a SI Swimsuit model”. “They discovered me back in 2007, and here we go – 10 years later, and I’m still here, and I’m not going anywhere”.
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“When Hailey joined our SI Swimsuit family as a rookie past year, I knew that she was the future of our brand”. “It was kind of risky because a shark could literally bite my booty and the swimsuit off”, she admitted. The cover photos were subsequently posted on Sports Illustrated’s official website.
