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Thank you for your hard work & scan. Kate looks so much better in motion (Pheno signature) they should think about making a motion covers for the I pad & I phone un retouched bobbies are so much pleasant to see... In movement!

u know people on TFS... they peepee Chanel perfume and they poopoo Vogue pages. I also agree on few things but no need to attack Kate like this. It's just a swim magazine after all. I don't mean about Kate...I'm ambivalent towards her. I was speaking about the photoshop and how crappy the mag has gotten lately. Nothing to do with the models really. oh ok. I'm ambivalent towards Kate too since few month but I lover her boobs and so... she won me with that! ...for now! & I think she fits SI perfectly. But I really miss the Heidi, Tyra, Daniela & Laetitia SI time.

u know people on TFS... they peepee Chanel perfume and they poopoo Vogue pages. I also agree on few things but no need to attack Kate like this. It's just a swim magazine after all.

I love that cat so so much! And VS.... Pfff... who really care what they think? Hello! Is America THE WORLD?? Because the show is viewed only on America's TV. Most of the rest of the world doesn't give a damn!

story from the nytimes - we arent the only ones that are surprised by the cover... Model Struts Path to Stardom Not on Runway, but on YouTube By GUY TREBAY There was a time, not long ago, when the surest path to modeling stardom was down the runway of a top designer’s show, when it would have been unthinkable to find among the industry’s top ranks a swimsuit girl whose main claims to fame were ad campaigns for Guess jeans and Beach Bunny Swimwear. But that was before social media altered the paths to fame. Unlike the many little-known beauties now on view at New York Fashion Week — women seldom identified by more than one name (Agata, Hanaa, Frida, Joan) — Kate Upton, just 19 and resembling a 1950s pinup, but with the legs of a W.N.B.A. point guard, has arrived on the scene as a largely self-created Internet phenomenon. It is not just that she has a respectable Twitter following (170,000 people at last count), or a YouTube video with over 3 million viewers, or marketing potential perhaps best measured by her rocketing from obscurity to No. 2 on a list of the world’s 99 “top” women compiled by AskMen.com, an online magazine with 15 million readers. (Sofia Vergara, of the ABC sitcom “Modern Family,” is No. 1.) Less than a year after Ms. Upton, curvaceous and rambunctious, posted a video of herself at a Los Angeles Clippers game doing the Dougie, a dance popularized in a hip-hop tune by Cali Swag District, she finds herself in one of the most coveted positions in the modeling business. Joining an elite club of modeling powerhouses — brand names like Cheryl Tiegs, Tyra Banks and Heidi Klum — Ms. Upton was announced Monday night on David Letterman’s show as the latest cover girl for Sports Illustrated’s annual swimsuit issue, the circulation and advertising behemoth that has long been equally the dream book of adolescent males and the bane of feminists. In modeling, as in movies (see: “Chronicle,” the film that hit No. 1 at the box office this month after relying on social media outlets like Twitter and YouTube for its marketing), music (the band Fun. and its inescapable viral hit “We Are Young”) and most other cultural endeavors, it is increasingly clear that there is no longer a single path to success. “We all know that social media now creates its own reality,” said Wayne Sterling, the publisher of Models.com, an industry Web site. “If you become a YouTube star among teenagers, you have even more recognizability than a TV star,” he said. “Kate Upton is the perfect example of that.” It was soon after the Dougie video went viral that a seasoned scout, David Cunningham, brought Ms. Upton to the attention of Ivan Bart of IMG Models, the company behind the multimillion-dollar careers of women like Gisele Bündchen, Ms. Klum and Kate Moss. “When Kate first came in, everyone at the agency thought I was crazy,” Mr. Bart, the “superagent” who heads IMG Models, said of Ms. Upton. “She wasn’t ‘fashion’ enough.” Mr. Bart signed her anyway. And soon, to the surprise of some in the industry, Ms. Upton was being sought out for editorial sittings with people like Carine Roitfeld, the French fashion eminence known for her prophetic eye, and by Katie Grand, the influential stylist and editor of the fashion-forward British magazine Love. Wholesomely proportioned at 5 feet 11 inches with a 36-25-34 figure, Ms. Upton was a long way from the coolly robotic Eastern European beauty ideal that has dominated the catwalks for many seasons. “Kate is bigger than fashion,” Mr. Bart said. “She’s the Jayne Mansfield of the Internet.” Though the catwalks of New York, Paris and Milan, traditionally a pathway to magazine covers and the lavish cosmetic and fragrance advertising campaigns that are the grail of every modeling hopeful, will continue to exert influence, it is increasingly difficult for the industry to ignore the world outside the Fashion Week tents, particularly the one that is virtual. “It’s not just enough to cast such-and-such a girl that opened Prada or Vuitton or whatever,” said Trey Laird, the creative director of Laird & Partners, the advertising agency behind brands like Tommy Hilfiger, Juicy Couture and the Gap. “It’s a huge help if a girl already has a platform and followers, and Kate Upton is a great example of that.” Those dubious about Ms. Upton’s crossover potential, or of any career driven toward the stony heart of fashion from the do-it-yourself fringes of the blogosphere, include Sophia Neophitou, editor of the English style bible 10 and a creative force behind the casting of the Victoria’s Secret shows. “We would never use” Ms. Upton for a Victoria’s Secret show, Ms. Neophitou said by telephone last week from London. And, while Ms. Upton has, in fact, modeled on occasion for the company’s catalog, her look, said Ms. Neophitou, is “too obvious” to be featured in what has become the most widely viewed runway show in the world. “She’s like a Page 3 girl,” Ms. Neophitou said, referring to the scantily clad voluptuous women featured in The Sun, a London tabloid. “She’s like a footballer’s wife, with the too-blond hair and that kind of face that anyone with enough money can go out and buy.” And yet, Ms. Upton turns up as the hottest new face in the industry in a coming issue of V, a fashion magazine with a cult following among the cognoscenti. “I wasn’t necessarily drawn to her because of her having been big online and having several million hits on YouTube,” said Stephen Gan, V’s editor in chief and creative director. “In fact, I first heard of her when we were having a party at the Boom Boom Room and Kate Moss’s agent called and said, ‘Can you put Kate Upton on your list?’ ” Unfamiliar then with the young model, Mr. Gan searched Google and came upon the Dougie video, along with the welter of gossip items that connect Ms. Upton to celebrities like Kanye West and the New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez. Tabloid readiness aside, he saw in her something a less seasoned fashion eye might overlook. “I come from a business where the perennial question is ‘Are you beautiful in a fashion sense or in a beauty pageant sense or beautiful-girl-next-door sense?’ ” Mr. Gan said. “And I feel like, why can’t we try to find something that’s a little bit different? If you’ve ever looked at pictures of Jean Harlow up close, she had the same curves as Kate Upton, the same silhouette, and she was the definition of beauty at the time.” Sitting last week in the Manhattan offices of IMG Models, clad in tight jeans and Christian Louboutin stilettos and with her peroxided hair piled high, Ms. Upton called to mind the dumb blondes of an earlier era, women like Ms. Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe who, as we now know, were not dumb at all. But unlike the passive beauties of the 1950s, Ms. Upton has a coolly appraising approach to her assets. She also has a big laugh, no shortage of confidence and the habit of cracking her knuckles like a tomboy bombshell. “For a long time, fashion has been going to celebrities,” she said. “Celebrities are on the magazine covers, and nobody wanted models. But why not have a model celebrity? Why not a girl who comes with her own following? Social media brings a personality to models. That’s how consumers today decide what to buy.” “I studied this,” added Ms. Upton, a Michigan native who was raised in Melbourne, Fla., and who began work at 15, spending her first few years toiling in the lucrative but unglamorous salt mines of catalog modeling. What Ms. Upton learned was that before Ms. Bündchen grew Angel wings and became Mrs. Tom Brady and a business impresario overseeing a multimillion-dollar empire built on the licensing of everything from lingerie to shower shoes, she was just another runway girl from the first wave of then-new Brazilians, a woman routinely informed she would never make it big in high fashion because her figure was too curvy and her nose was too long. “People told me I couldn’t be fashion, that I’m just an old-fashioned body girl, only good for swimwear,” Ms. Upton said. “But I knew that I could bring back the supermodel.” “What can I say?” she added. “I’m relatable.” TFS U should read the comment about the cover & Kate on TFS $1 prostitute is one of the nicest! http://forums.thefashionspot.com/f78/sport...ton-168823.html

Oh God Kate is the worse and I don't know what they did to Cristal or Cintia boobs? plain awful! lol you mean Cintia's eyes. they look painted on. boobs are also weird on one picture (I need to go back and find it) her body looks also way too long (legs) on some pictures and her hair look fake. Poor Cintia)=

(Y) If they want women to look like plastic they should use "real doll" for the shoot what happened to her neck? And this is not the only picture when she seems to have a head with no neck? the graphic dude was hating her or something? this issue is going to be on the "photoshop disaster" web sites for years!

I think they don't know what to do with the females characters in this serie. Strong & independent women is not an option I guess?

Not Kate? I love Nina's body but Gosh only one expression... stop smiling girl you are not selling fLucking toothpaste!

Daniela Pestova 10 Esti Ginzburg Fabiana Semprebom 7 Bar Refaeli 8 Heidi Klum 10

I am a fan of Kate even if I am not spending my time at "wow" to her (I was "wow" at her body 1 year ago tho). She looks damn good for sure but her body is not perfect (no one as a perfect body anyway) A little bit of objectivity can't hurt when it comes to the models we love? I lovelovelove her pictures for SI. The way she poses, her smile, she looks so natural and happy. But the over editing ruins almost everything for me. these would have been a perfect cover Hello Marissa! this one too minus the fake tan, the plastic boobs they made and the plastic everything! even her elbow is fake! She really knows how to bring uber sexiness and cuteness at the same time =)

Oh God Kate is the worse and I don't know what they did to Cristal or Cintia boobs? plain awful!

Thank you Pretty. U are posting faster than your shadow!

That is a fu%$king hot picture!

too late! I asked my slave to buy it and here is my issue and his

I love Kate because to me she is a modern pin-up (sometimes she reminds me a young Ana Nicole Smith and I say it as a compliment Ana was amazing for Guess) But on this cover she looks like a page 3 model and even if I like page 3 models, she looks like a bad page 3 model. I don't even think it's her fault. The whole retouching/layout of the cover is lame and the blurry background? What is that? A 70's porn movie? I might be the quality of the photo tho and maybe the HQ will look better? But for now to me it's just a waste of Kate and paper.

That picture is so beautiful I think u can post it again 2 or 3 times But I will close my eyes each time i'll see her SI cover They could have done so much better!

Seriously? the bottom part of her body is computer made. The cover looks so cheap. I did not see her other pictures but... why this picture? Swimsuit is obviously too small and her pose is oh so unflattering. I was expecting so much more. Fail.

A succubus? The Winchester bro will kick her ass good!

let's cross her fingers!

ho is the 2012 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover girl? Set to replace last year's beauty, Irina Shayk, the buzz on the Web seems to indicated that the pre-Valentine's Day treat could be Kate Upton. Fans of the yearly SI swimsuit edition will know for sure when David Letterman announces the 2012 cover model on the Late Show on Feb 13 at 11:35pm ET on CBS. http://www.examiner.com/sports-babe-in-nat...david-letterman I'd like to know if it already happened to have a girl who was a rookie on the last year issue and became the cover girl the year after?

Are you calling me a troll? And if you are, why? no I call myself a troll... breath deeply and look under my avi. Sorry for the confusion

Candice is working out too much IMO. She is way too thin and the muscles... <_< no! I always hated Marissa abs but her body was 'boobies ass curvy' when Candee dee is zero boobies curvy and the working out is not helping her to look more soft and feminine on the top part of her body. And yes, even if Cintia is rather petite she is curvy for her frame. She has a feminine body and men like that... I like that too!

The troll kiki strikes again! (I was tasting you guys ) I love Candice but I prefer her with clothes on & I agree with Pheno, I think young babyfat Candice would have been perfect for SI. Now she is just too thin and too focus on herself or her over exaggerating poses . And when I see her in lingerie or swimsuit I don't see what she sells or wears, I just see her (if what I say does make any sense? ) She advertises her body and not the tinny things she wears. It's like she is posing in front of a mirror to admire herself. Pose 1: I am hot. Pose 2: yeah so hot. Pose 3: I turn myself on cause I am hot. Pose 4: blow a kiss to myself, such a hot number I am. Pose 5: fuck yeah to me! Hot hot hot! Etc, etc.

Wow!^ And wow at Am I jealous at her Louboutin heels? Yes I am. and the 2 most beautiful pictures out of Esquire IMO