{"id":1416,"date":"2017-05-24T09:38:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T16:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2017-05-24T09:38:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T16:38:00","slug":"bianca-balti-named-si-rookie-of-the-year-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/bianca-balti-named-si-rookie-of-the-year-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Bianca Balti named SI Rookie of the Year 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive aligncenter wp-image-1420 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/6.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/6-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/6-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/6-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/6-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/6-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/6-100x67.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Voting for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition Rookie of the Year ended February 10<sup>th. <\/sup>The rookie class this year has pretty impressive shoes to fill, previous Rookies of the Year include Chrissy Teigen, Kate Upton, Sara Sampaio and 2016\u2019s Barbara Palvin. The internet community placed their votes in the days before the issue hit newsstands, before the final photo selection released online.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1416 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/bianca-balti-named-si-rookie-of-the-year-2017\/attachment\/3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/3.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/3.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/3-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/3-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/3-100x67.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/bianca-balti-named-si-rookie-of-the-year-2017\/attachment\/4\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/4.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/4.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/4-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/4-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/4-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/4-100x67.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><span class=\"aligncenter\"><span class=\"alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignnone size-medium wp-image-1423 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/5-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/5-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/5-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/5-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/5-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/5-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/5.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Italian beauty Bianca Balti has been crowned the winner. The 33 year old veteran model has worked in every major facet of fashion modeling: editorial shoots and covers including Playboy, various runway work, major ad campaigns for everyone from L&#8217;Oreal to Dior and catalog and runway for Victoria\u2019s Secret. Perhaps the final frontier for a model of this caliber is the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition and Bianca could barely contain her excitement to be working with James Macari, MJ Day and the team on Sumba Island in Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive aligncenter wp-image-1424 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/02.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1249\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/02.png 1249w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/02-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/02-768x420.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/02-1024x560.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/02-200x109.png 200w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/02-400x219.png 400w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/02-100x55.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1249px) 100vw, 1249px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Balti, the oldest crowned Rookie of the Year beat out many equally gorgeous (and younger!) women for the top honor including current Victoria\u2019s Secret models Lais Ribeiro, Kelly Gale and Vita Sidorkina, as well as stunning newcomers Myla DalBesio, Danielle Herrington and Mia Kang. The mother of two posed topless with the colorful sky as her only backdrop as well as a variety of shots in the sand and surf in a selection of colorful suits.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive aligncenter wp-image-1425 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1279\" height=\"701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/01.png 1279w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/01-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/01-768x421.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/01-1024x561.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/01-200x110.png 200w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/01-400x219.png 400w, https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/01-100x55.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1279px) 100vw, 1279px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In addition to an adorable statuette that MJ and the team at SI gifted her, Bianca is guaranteed to be in the 2018 installment of the magazine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition Rookie of the Year ended February 10th. The rookie class this year has pretty impressive shoes to fill, previous Rookies of the Year include Chrissy Teigen, Kate Upton, Sara Sampaio and 2016\u2019s Barbara Palvin. The internet community placed their votes in the days before the issue hit newsstands, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":1420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,27,1],"tags":[32,33,34],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-si-swimsuit","category-uncategorized","tag-biancabalti","tag-italian","tag-si2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1600,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions\/1600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellazon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}