Sports Illustrated Pitches Three Different Looks on Swimsuit Covers

Seems that any SI swimsuit model that doesn't meet the 5-11/119 standard is called a heifer or a gimmick.

But maybe I've been misreading these threads.

 

Along those lines, there are probably hundreds of things more harmful than a model on the cover of a magazine that fewer and fewer people read as time goes by.

I hate the constant bombardment of advertising for shitty processed food that my kids would love nothing more than to eat three meals a day forever. I hate that they put a picture of Darth Vader on a big pile of salt or sugar and my son flips out for it. I hate that there is a McDonald's on every street corner.

An attractive model with a few extra pounds on the cover of a magazine I haven't bought in years is way down the list of my concerns about health. And she's not even obese.

 

Victoria Secrets models look painfully skinny to me anymore. Not sure if that's always been the case, but I don't think so.
Looking through the last few VS catalogs we've gotten and they look awful, aside from the boob jobs.

They fallen a long way off from Marissa Miller .... Edit: maybe not. I looked up her stats she's listed as 5-8, 110 so .....

My first comment was light-hearted jab at TigerVols Kate Upton comment (which took on a life of its own).

FWIW... I think the SI swimsuit issue - especially this one - is a total gimmick.

 

Oh come on, what does "overweight" mean?

 

No, "curves."

 

You didn't say she was simply "curvy".

 

Someone said the like women with "curves." I asked if "curves" was a euphemism for "overweight."

Yes, Ashley Graham is a few pounds overweight. A few.

 

Its defense is presumed by an overwhelming lack of critique.

I'm comfortable writing that many models - especially runway and editorial models - aren't living anything close to a healthy life. It concerns us not until they weigh over 140. Then it's time to crank up the American health crisis again.

I have no issue talking health, mind you - even if it's not my thing to discuss it here - but swimsuit models are not generally selling health. They're selling sex.

Of the cover girls, Rousey is undoubtedly the least healthy of the bunch unless one of the others is a drug addict. Her binge-eating habits are on record and she can land in the hospital based on the punishment she gets from her job. Read her interviews. This is a person more likely to crash, hard, in the next decade than Graham.

 

Again: Overweight for what? Graham's job is to score modeling contracts and model stuff. Boy, did she here.

Von Miller weighs less than the traditional hand-in-the-dirt pass rusher. His job is to sack quarterbacks. Boy, did he in the Super Bowl.

 

I concede that she is not overweight for her job as a overweight model. And, by that definition, Precious is not overweight, either.

 

Damn, I chose the wrong career.

 

Ok. So what?