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once again, people think g.mo is kate upton... http://www.brobible.com/girls/article/kate-uptons-boobs-instagram-video kate's boobs haven't looked that good since 2011 (anyone wanna repost the vid?)

nice vid. most of the commenters on instagram think it's definitely kate upton. we know better! :neo2:

everything except the fact that this is SI swimsuit casting. when's the last time SI had a model of edita's caliber? :notsure:

i think lisalla's chances hinge on whether or not emily ratajkowski is a rookie. as curvaceous brunettes, they might be competing for the same part, so to speak. the good news for lisalla is that she's with IMG where emrata is with Ford. SI tends to buy in bulk from IMG (about half of last year's models were with them) so maybe they'll throw her in as part of that package.

her instagram was shut down because she posted pics of her naked butt...when she was 3 year old

that's terrible news! hopefully they'll all reappear on another account

one of the better castings. the best of the blondes, i believe.

this bodes well for emily's chances as a rookie in the 2014 issue... (speaking of: http://www.bellazon.com/main/topic/47095-2014-si-swimsuit/?p=3215616)

such is the nature of internet forums...

behind the scenes of an upcoming shoot: https://vimeo.com/68672648 phillip lopez, stone cold fox: "la bandita"

cmon, ready for another photoshoot. this time last year they were already done with two locations...

usually the cover model speculation comes after the shoots. we've hardly identified who is in the magazine, much less who would have a shot at the cover. that said, anne v will be in the issue. not a good bet for the cover, though.

a bit more "analysis" in an attempt to determine potential models for the 2014 issue... i looked up the 2013 models and the 32 casting call models on google trends to try to see how popular each of these girls are based on 2013 google search interest data. it will come as no surprise that kate upton blows everyone out of the water. she's about 6 times more popular than the second-most popular SI model, irina shayk. so i used irina, not kate, as the main benchmark. on a scale of irina shayk = 100, the rankings of the 2013 issue's models are: Kate Upton 640 Irina Shayk 100 Nina Agdal 42 Hannah Davis 27 Emily DiDonato 12 Jessica Gomes 10 Alyssa Miller 8 Cintia Dicker 6 Genevieve Morton 6 Anne V 6 Kate Bock 4 Jessica Perez 4 Christine Teigen 4 Natasha Barnard 2 Julie Henderson 2 Ariel Meredith 2 Adaora Akubilo 0 now, of the castings, very few of them even register. most are zero. the only ones that get points are: Emily Ratajkowski 69 yes, 69 Ashley Sky 12 Ali Michael 6 Dayana Mendoza 4 Bregje Heinen 2 Angela Martini 2 Lisalla Montenegro 2 Caroline West 2 basically, emily ratajkowski is like the kate upton of the casting calls (or the "announced" casting calls, as i'm sure i'll be corrected). she's massively popular, appearing in at least three music videos, a carl's jr commercial, several lingerie campaigns, editorials, etc. (in fact, she's already as popular as kate upton was in 2011, her rookie/dougie year.) ashley sky is about as popular as emily didonato and jessica gomes. the rest are much lower, basically comparable with lesser-known SI models like natasha, julie, and ariel. that said, if i were trying to translate these to some odds of being picked for the issue, i'd increase both ali michaels and lisalla montenegro's odds because they're represented by IMG, the agency that represented about half of the 2013 SI models. i'd decrease ashley sky, whose agency is more likely to be instagram or pinterest. and i might even decrease emily ratajkowski (recently signed with Ford) a bit since her current popularity might actually work against her. but clearly, emily ratajkowski would be the clear favorite among the casting calls on a popularity basis alone. ali, dayana, and lisalla would also be fairly safe picks. tl;dr: blurred lines is the new dougie.

ok then, PM away...

oh, just post the thing about nina. put it in spoiler tags if you're that worried about it.

there's more; i'll just get them all in one post... spoiler: nudity

actually that last one is nothing special this one at least has a young emily in Amie lingerie: https://vimeo.com/68866219

https://vimeo.com/68672648 Behind The Scenes: Stone Cold Fox & Emily Ratajkowski

yeah, someone else should start another thread if they want to attempt a bellazon-based ranking. just don't hate me for putting kim cloutier in my top 10 meanwhile, it's been two weeks since the last preview pic! darcie is back from vacation, so maybe they've got another shoot lined up soon. not that we had much luck identifying the models in the first shoot... btw i expect it's been posted before but kikidoll has been compiling the preview pics here

FYI if you want to see a pretty well-informed ranking of SI models, check out swimsuitologist, who i believe posts (lurks?) here http://swimsuitologist.blogspot.com/2013/06/50-greatest-swimsuit-models-50-41.html http://swimsuitologist.blogspot.com/2013/06/50-greatest-swimsuit-models-40-31.html http://swimsuitologist.blogspot.com/2013/06/50-greatest-swimsuit-models-30-21.html http://swimsuitologist.blogspot.com/2013/06/50-greatest-swimsuit-models-20-11.html http://swimsuitologist.blogspot.com/2013/06/50-greatest-swimsuit-models-10-1.html i like this ranking better than SI's, for the most part.

with a 3:1 ratio, the top ten doesn't change at all. anne v joins the top 20, though. i'm not sure the number of appearances is necessarily correlated with quality. kim cloutier is a billionty times better than most SI models but she only appeared once.

by the way, if you want to give each model a point for an appearance and five points for a cover, then the top 20 looks like this: 1 Elle Macpherson 2 Kathy Ireland 3 Cheryl Tiegs 4 Daniela Peštová 5 Christie Brinkley 6 Yamila Díaz 7 Veronika Vařeková 8 Rachel Hunter 9 Rebecca Romijn 10 Paulina Porizkova 11 Elsa Benítez 12 Tyra Banks 13 Carolyn Murphy 14 Kate Upton 15 Irina Shayk 16 Marisa Miller 17 Petra Němcová 18 Carol Alt 19 Brooklyn Decker 20 Heidi Klum