Mixed martial arts fighter Ronda Rousey, plus-size model Ashley Graham, and model Hailey Clausen highlight this year’s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.
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In fact, for the first time in 52 years, there will be three different SI Swimsuit covers.
“Every single woman that is booked for this magazine is cover worthy”, Assistant Managing Editor MJ Day said in a statement. Attractiveness isn’t cookie cutter.
With this, the magazine has quashed the age old “attractiveness is one-size fits all” myth and it is being loved by us!
On Saturday night, Sports Illustrated unveiled the 2016 Swimsuit Issue cover – and not one, but three lovely ladies are starring on the mag’s annual cover. “There are 16 million women who actually read the issue, and we’re letting these woman know there’s no such thing as flawless”, she said. “You can do and achieve anything you put your mind to”, Graham wrote on Instagram, along with a snap of the cover.
Rousey is also making a mark as the first cover girl to appear wearing only body paint.
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She continued: “Not that long go I went on YouTube and I was looking at my videos, like 2007 videos I did for Sports Illustrated, and it was hilarious”. She is the ideal combination of beauty, brains, brawn and humility. “That’s still handsome”, Graham said on Good Morning America. “She possesses a spirit bigger than the space around her”. Not only is this the first time that I’m in the issue, but I’m on the cover and sharing this honor with two of the most stunning women. “She’s a Phoenix, as fiery and lovely as any mythical creature ever depicted”. One of them is the muscled Rousey and the other is plus-size model Ashley Graham.
