Elle Macpherson
Christie Brinkley
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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Hey, I’ve got more hair than that!
I haven’t opened a cover of SI since the mid 80s.
Yes, sad but true.
Vanna White is 62
Bridget Bardot was very nice looking into her 70s
Raquel Welch was also vey attractive into her late 50s
It happens.
Shes female shaped and wearing a swimsuit so it is a huge improvement over hijab girl.
No women age better than Japanese women. THAT is, in my book, one of the undeniable truths of life.
And Cheryl Tiegs
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Bridget Bardow? You are mistaken. She has not aged well, at all. She’s a dog.
You may be confusing her with Sophia Loren.
Kathy Ireland is my all-time favorite.
There are a lot of young men who have a fiftysomething fetish, so I’ve heard...
As beautiful as ever. Still has those “bedroom eyes.”
Yeah, the 56 year old lady is kinda hot.
My daughter has been getting various magazines to use for collage pics in her classroom. She uses our address for her mags. She got the SI swimsuit issue last year and I took the opportunity to thumb through it....meh. Not like the old days.
I was a long-term subscriber. But years ago it morphed into Political Sports Illustrated and never missed a chance to praise obama. I dropped it.
Porizkova....
Back in the day SI was where all sportswriters aspired to work. Read Dan Jenkins' stories of working there in the 1960s. Of course the chief editor back then was Andre Laguerre who was a French veteran of WW II who escaped Dunkirk and later served as De Gaulle's press secretary. The point being the magazine had people running it who had great life experiences, instead of SJW journo-school graduates.
She’s definitely had breast work.
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