This year's SI swimsuit edition cover model is ...

[DanOregon]

I think the '78 issue with Cheryl Tiegs in the white mesh suit was my first one. My parents confiscated it and wouldn't let me have it. I was super pissed, until I realized I had other friends with the issue.

That's funny, because that time it was my brother and I who "confiscated it" and shredded the thing putting all the pictures all over our room. "Hey Dad, SI? Nope, haven't seen it....."

 

[ChrisLong]

Kim Alexis

 

[nickp]

my Mt Rushmore of SI swimsuit cover models:
Kathy Ireland
Elle Macpherson
Cheryl Tiegs
Kate Upton

 

[Slacker]

my Mt Rushmore of SI swimsuit cover models:
Kathy Ireland
Elle Macpherson
Cheryl Tiegs
Kate Upton

No way I'm cutting my list down to four.
But I'd say the Grand Tetons are the better setting.

 

[OscarMadison]

This was the last SI swimsuit edition I ever had, as part of my subscription in 2003.

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My very pregnant wife gave me the stink eye when she saw it, so I stashed it in my pickup with the thought I could browse at my leisure some other time.

Instead it was sacrificed days later so that my 2-wheel drive Mazda could gain traction to escape the mud bog I was forced to park in while covering a region basketball tournament in Nahunta, Ga. My son was born the next month and my swimsuit edition days were done.

Most of them are lovely in a fantasy shopping for ways I'd like my own parts to look sense. These two pictures look very, very 'shopped, though. The college boyfriend who dragged me to the Memphis Davis-Kidd while I was sick with the flu so he could get a copy of the Rolling Stone Hot Issue with Wynona Ryder on the cover played a role in my decision to never get married.

 

[WriteThinking]

That cover photo of Martha Stewart hardly even looks like a swim-suit shot.

It's more like a bathing suit cover-up shot. And it doesn't do anything for her. That cover-up looks like it's part of a couture gown, or something.

 

[Slacker]

"Hey, no fair! Our photos weren't 'shopped back then. ... ... ... They were airbrushed!"

 

[micropolitan guy]

Cheryl Tiegs. Fishnet. I need say no more. Game ovah.

 

[Batman]

Christie Brinkley. Elle Macpherson. Kathy Ireland. Kate Upton.
And Gayle King.

 

[sgreenwell]

Christie Brinkley. Elle Macpherson. Kathy Ireland. Kate Upton.
And Gayle King.

To be slightly fair, I guess, this continues the SI practice of multiple cover models. This year's are King, Kate Upton, Chrissy Teigen and Hunter McGrady.

 

[Liut]

I have a hard time just watching Gayle King attempt to read a teleprompter and ad-lib (without stumbling) while clothed in business attire.
No desire to see her posed in a swimsuit.

 

[Twirling Time]

Forget GILF, she's old enough in some states to be a GGILF.