Sports Illustrated Swimsuit

Every year some individuals, mostly men, hold their breath waiting for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition is like no other offering of Sports Illustrated. Modeled like a Playboy magazine, the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue provides voyeurs with a look at scantily clad and sometimes artistically posed models and celebrities. Sports Illustrated swimsuit models are, indeed a smorgasbord of delightful pulchritude and sublime curves. These women are also a who’s who of the current modeling and celebrity world. Sometimes, the women are actual well-known sports figures.

Models in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition for 2007 included Beyonce, Anna Paula Araujo, Brooklyn Decker, Julie Henderson, Anne V., Aline Nakashima and Jessica White. The cover for the 2006 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition celebrating past models looked like a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition Gallery of past issues. In the past, models of the Sports Illustrated Edition Swimsuit Edition included Ellie MacPherson who graced five covers while Christie Brinkley, Kathy Ireland, Daniela Pestova and Cheyly Tiegs appeared on three each. Other so-called super models to become a part of the Sports Illustrated Swim Suit Edition include Tyra Banks, Cindy Crawford, Angie Everhart, Rachel Hunter, Heid Klum, Stacey Williams and Ulla. In 2007, the roster of swimsuit beauties included tennis star Maria Sharapova.

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition does include sports stars in its roster. In 2005, Amanda Beard, Jennie French, Lauren Jackson and Venus Williams all appeared in swimsuit garb in its pages. In the past, Steffi Graf (1997), as well as Anna Kournikova (2004) decorated the pages of the magazine. The 2003 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition contained both the figure skater Katerina Gordeeval and tennis player Serena Williams.

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The strength of the sales of the Sports Illustrated Swim Suits Editions shows in the numbers. A regular issue of Sports Illustrated sells approximately 3.3 million copies. The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition sells five or more million copies of which at least 10 times more copies sell at the newsstand. This has bee the pattern since the every first swimsuit in Sports Illustrated took center stage as part of the special edition in 1964. The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition continues to sell high because they provide photographs and pictorials of the ideal female form. These high maintenance beauties strive and do stand out in a crowd. They set an abnormal standard men desire and some women try to follow. Both paths lead to ultimate disappointment as they chase a chimera.