NEW YORK (AP) — Model Brooklyn Decker landed the coveted Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover this year.
The 22-year-old wife of tennis star Andy Roddick said being chosen for the front is “the news of a lifetime.”
The cover photo of Decker smiling in a yellow bikini is a departure from the more sultry look that SI had gone for the past few years, she said. She compared it to covers from the 1980s or ’90s, when Elle Macpherson won her covers with a friendly, sun-loving look.
SI keeps the cover photo a secret – even from the models – until less than 24 hours before it’s revealed. Decker said now the mad dash was on to find outfits for TV appearances that will come with the gig. (Her closet of swimsuits wasn’t right for winter, she joked.)
As for Roddick? He’s relieved the five-time SI Swimsuit model can check the cover-girl box and won’t be as nervous next February when the next edition comes out.
Decker says she is an avid sports fan, and, as a teenager in North Carolina, ran hurdles for the track team, played soccer and participated in competitive cheerleading. She has no great diet or exercise secret, she said, other than to be active and eat sensibly.
“I still don’t know the formula for the cover,” she added. “It’s luck, the perfect suit and perfect storm to get it.”
Decker said, though, that because Sports Illustrated encourages a natural look – less makeup, toned muscles, curvy shape – it’s easier to get a great photograph. “This celebrates the girls and their personalities. I think it’s why they get such beautiful pictures.”
I don’t know. They always look way better in pictures than real life. I have seen Brooklyn in real life. She was just an OK looking girl.
Yeah. I definitely would NOT hit it. Just look at those sharp elbows. She is way below my standards.
The cover photo of Decker smiling in a yellow bikini is a departure from the more sultry look that SI had gone for the past few years
She’s not in that bikini.
Just sayin.
I also want to thank our feminists, whose work over the years has not only made abortion as the number one feminism issue, but has helped dispel the stereotypes that women are just wives, silly ninnies, and sexual playthings.
Good work at concentrating real hard and getting the job done feminist ladies! Watching current movies, recent SuperBowl ads, and reading of all our political/business progress… where would we be without the Boomer feminist movement who made society for young women what it is today.
(Abortion on demand — woo hoo!!)
I think she looks beautiful and healthy and that is a good look. She’s such a pretty girl.
She looks like she’s halfway there to bending over in the surf, though Suzie.
I agree — great body. But why is the swimsuit already half off, unless we’re all supposed to think about cupping those breasts with hands, and sinking into the soft fleshy goodness that is Andy Roddick’s wife.
(I wonder if Tiger’s already hit that piece…)
HOT cover. She has a great body and with no diet/exercise plan? Well, she is only about 22 years old. I would love to see how my body and face would look after being airbrushed to perfection. Oh well, more power to her!
Susie, I agree. She is beautiful. And MaryG, sounds like you have a thing for hot women. But then again, with her who wouldn’t, male or female!
Andy, you are one lucky dude…
I believe God is a guy-just like in the Old Testament!
MMmmmmm MEAT !
That will send Tiger right back into rehab!!!
“the news of a lifetime.” Not, your wedding proposal?
Andy,
Oh you lucky boy. There wasn’t anyone in my old neighborhood in Brooklyn that looked liked Andy’s Brooklyn.
What I’d like to know is why does Sports Illustrated feature the annual swimsuit issue in the first place? What “sport” are we talking about here? Girlwatching? Casual sex? Plastic surgery? (since when did these become sports, anyway???) Yes, the models are beautiful young women, and the covers/spreads are artsy and cool, but it’s a shame that the models are so overtly objectified. If the aim of the issue is to spotlight the sport of swimming, take off the hot chick and put Michael Phelps on the cover!!
I don’t understand what “objectified” means. Men are wired to enjoy looking at a female in a bathing suit. As a female there is nothing to do but recognize that. If I made any form of entertainment for men, it would include the female form.
Well I think they picked the perfect person and picture. it’s a great picture .
Of course people are going to try and point something wrong with her, shes gorgeous, everyone picks on gorgeous people because they envy.
But anyways,
Lisa, SEX SELLS, it’s going to attract men to it the issue, and they’ll most likely buy it in hope of more photos. Just like Maxim, and etc…
I see no wrong in putting beautiful women on a cover, PLUS its the swimsuit edition. so its obvious they are going to put her over Michael Phelps in a speedo..
Think Andy would get a woman like her if her was not a tennis star?I bet not.
Yes…I think I will return to the dark side.
T.
More irrefutable evidence that God is a man. Hummannahummunna.
I like Penelope Cruz more cuando she haffa bikini.
Mary believe in yourself you will feel better. Don’t knock someone for making a living, just because they don’t choose what you like. Sounds like you need a little love.