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‘Sports Illustrated’ Swimsuit Issue to Feature 56-Year-Old, Plus Sized, and Bald Finalists
www.breitbart.com ^ | 13 Feb 2020 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 02/14/2020 6:53:10 AM PST by Red Badger

Sports Illustrated has introduced its next slate of finalist models for its upcoming swimsuit issue, and a plus-sized model, a 56-year-old model, and a bald fitness trainer will be among them.

The magazine introduced the six finalists that the magazine touted as its most diverse ever. The finalists were winnowed down from seventeen hopefuls unveiled last October, the Daily Mail reported.

Before this year’s winner is announced, the magazine is set to send the finalists to a photo-shoot conducted in the Turks & Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory southeast of the Bahamas.

The finalists include Philadelphia native Christie Valdiserri, a 25-year-old fitness instructor and dancer whose personal style includes are bald head.

“I was inspired to attend the Model Search in Miami when I finally had enough strength and confidence in myself as a bald woman,” Valdiserri recently said.

Valdiserri added that she wanted to “educate the next generation that beauty comes from who you are, not from what you look like.”

Kathy Jacobs from Calabasas, California, is also a member of the group, but at 56 and silver-haired, is an even more unconventional finalist for the magazine’s most glamorous photo-shoot.

“I’ve entered the SI Swimsuit Model Search and flown to Miami twice,” Jacobs said. “The first time I didn’t make it past the first round. But I didn’t give up! I felt a burning desire to try again and to be part of a change in the way society views women over 50.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Sports
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; fat; feminism; getwokegobroke; homosexualagenda; obesity; prstunt; sportsillustrated
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To: Red Badger

I was a teenage boy when this cover of Elle published in 1986. It has been downhill ever since and is now clearly a woke joke.

41 posted on 02/14/2020 7:40:18 AM PST by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: sushiman
My Japanese wife is 56 and has the body of a 36 year old.

Then I suggest you two bury it in the backyard and don't say anything if the cops come calling.

42 posted on 02/14/2020 7:41:19 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: cba123
Swim suit edition no longer a one-handed magazine for 13 year old boys.😎
43 posted on 02/14/2020 7:46:29 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo2)
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To: Red Badger
If I want to see old, fat and bald I go to Walmart. You used to see truly attractive, breathtakingly beautiful women in those bygone swimsuit issues. And this coming from a straight old lady. The left destroys everything they touch.
44 posted on 02/14/2020 7:47:20 AM PST by GrannyAnn
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To: Red Badger
The finalists include Philadelphia native Christie Valdiserri, a 25-year-old fitness instructor and dancer whose personal style includes are bald head.

I looked her up. She didn't shave her head, she has alopecia areata "a common autoimmune skin disease, causing hair loss on the scalp, face and sometimes on other areas of the body".

Feminists will say "she is still beautiful". And she does have a great body.

From the man's perspective, what we call "beauty" is an evolutionarily-important set of indicators of a woman's health, physical fitness, and fertility, so we can pick the best candidate to be the mother of our children. Part of the indicators of female beauty (health and fertility) includes having a healthy set of hair. Having an auto-immune disorder which causes complete hair loss is a negative indicator.

45 posted on 02/14/2020 7:49:49 AM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: Red Badger

That selection is a disservice to 56yo women everywhere.


46 posted on 02/14/2020 7:52:54 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Verbosus
I don't have anything against a woman that age....


Shucks, my oldest daughter is two years older than her!

47 posted on 02/14/2020 7:53:01 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo2)
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To: NEMDF
Next up, all the swimsuit models will be transgender “women”.

I can't wait for the Sports Illustrated Catlyn Jenner Swimsuit Edition...


48 posted on 02/14/2020 7:57:30 AM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Bonemaker

Me either, with the exception of my body


49 posted on 02/14/2020 7:57:41 AM PST by Cooter (Radicals always try to force crises because in a crisis, everyone must choose sides. - J. Goldberg)
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To: Red Badger

Here’s another annual “SO WHAT?” edition of SI.

*YAWN*


50 posted on 02/14/2020 7:58:54 AM PST by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: Red Badger

“Boss, we’re making too much money to go bankrupt! What can we do to get people to not buy our magazine?”


51 posted on 02/14/2020 8:00:00 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Liberalism is the belief everyone else should be in treatment for your disorder.)
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To: Red Badger
NY Post Called her a 56 Year Old Stunner... I am not quite stunned, but she is alright.


52 posted on 02/14/2020 8:04:19 AM PST by conservative98
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To: Red Badger

There are all kinds of beautiful women. Just because they are beautiful doesn’t necessarily mean they are going to look good in a string bikini, and that’s okay. The challenge of dressing well —for women or men — is to find something that is realistic for one’s body and flattering. It can be done and it isn’t “one size (or style) fits all.”


53 posted on 02/14/2020 8:08:58 AM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: GrannyAnn

If I want to see old, fat and bald I look in the mirror!..................


54 posted on 02/14/2020 8:09:58 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: Red Badger
Brielle Anyea, 24, is yet another interesting member of the finalists. As a plus-sized model with 113,000 Instagram followers, Anyea insists that she hopes to represent “inclusion” in the magazine’s swimsuit model competition.

“I hope every chocolate chubby girl and every thick queen around the world sees this and know that anything is possible,” Anyea continued.

Brielle Anyea, 24, of Baltimore

55 posted on 02/14/2020 8:11:32 AM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98
113,000 Instagram followers

In today's world 113K is not a lot.................

56 posted on 02/14/2020 8:13:45 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: conservative98

Inclusivity! Yes Walruses do deserve a break!


57 posted on 02/14/2020 8:15:20 AM PST by Reily
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To: Bonemaker

Works for me! I’d definitely hit it!


58 posted on 02/14/2020 8:16:08 AM PST by Ratman0823 ("Worry less about who you might offend and care more about who you might inspire" - Mike Baxter)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
...years ago, when Christie Brinkley, Paulina Married-The-Cars-Guy and Kathie Ireland were still young and hot...

All terrific, but Stephanie Seymour was my personal favorite in those days. She ended up marrying some billionaire.

59 posted on 02/14/2020 8:20:19 AM PST by IndyTiger
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To: Verbosus

A few years after grandma died grandpa said I’m dating a young one, she’s only 73 =) he lived to 98


60 posted on 02/14/2020 8:20:28 AM PST by Jolla
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