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The differences from then and now are profound and sad, even through the early 2010s the swimsuit issue was a big deal. I still remember when Bar Refaeli's cover came out, that was huge, to the point they were advertising on the side of Southwest planes here in the US.

I think you hit the nail on the head, trying to be woke has killed it. From a male perspective, I have zero interest in a swimsuit issue filled with 50% overweight women, that's just NOT attractive. Modeling to me is like pro sports, you don't get there based on participation, it's merit based. As an athlete you actually have to be GOOD at your sport, you don't see a bunch of short overweight people playing in the NBA just to be inclusive. Models are supposed to be beautiful and possibly "unobtainable", not average women that you see walking down the street every day.

To me they're completely different issues, though they do overlap to a degree. I think being overweight is unhealthy and shouldn't be glamorized, on top of finding it totally unattractive and unappealing. With the trans thing, as a straight male, which is who 90% of the SI swimsuit edition's audience at least used to be, I have zero interest in seeing a trans person, and zero attraction towards trans-women in general, and frankly don't understand why a publication would be pushing that on a an audience that doesn't and won't have any interest in it. It's not hard to figure out why men want to look at hot women in bikinis and a trans-woman completely kills that vibe on every level. There's a huge difference between supporting trans rights and thinking it makes sense to put a trans-person in a publication aimed at males. Now I'll freely admit that SI doesn't seem to want the swimsuit edition to be focused on a male audience anymore, but that's also why it's dying a not so slow death. Just like there are differences between the sexes there are differences between women and trans-women. Which again, doesn't mean that we don't all deserve equal rights, but it doesn't mean we're the same either.

And the final nail in the coffin for the SI Swimsuit Edition to ever have any popularity again... https://www.vogue.com/article/valentina-sampaio-becomes-sports-illustrated-first-trans-model

Where was this originally published?

Sadly I agree, that style of hair should have stayed in the 80s.

The virtue signalling is strong in this one!

Just weight loss and normal change in hormones as she hits her late 20s.

Virgin alert!!

You said it far better than I could or did. The only thing that I'll add is that I have no problem with content creators charging fans for early access to something, this is very common with Youtubers. Many of them use Patreon also and they'll charge an early access fee for videos, sometimes it's just 24 hours, a few times I've seen it up to a month. Sometimes they also have "exclusive" content, but from what I've seen that's almost exclusively "extras", not their core video product. If photographers were using Patreon in a similar way I don't think many would complain. Especially since content with a small digital footprint, i.e. overall file sizes, will ALWAYS get leaked at some point. Trying to create a business model that fights that is like fighting gravity after a while.

I'm not stealing anything and I don't care one way or the other if anyone else is either. I'm talking about the fact that trying to keep content like this behind a paywall is a totally futile exercise and I gave you examples as to why. Plus "theft" of a digital item that you would never have paid for is NOT the same as theft of a physical item where someone is out the cost of those goods. Which isn't to say that theft is ok, just totally different circumstances. Instead of being an ideologue making straw man arguments, maybe you should think about what I've said a little deeper.

You can put your head in the sand all you want, but again, this is 2020 and the internet does exist. I for one have zero interest in ever paying a model for her content no matter how "hot" I may think she is. In the past models actually worked with agents and managers and found paying jobs that were then supported through advertising campaigns, magazine sales, website clicks, etc. instead of gouging their "fans" directly. Just like the music industry changed, and the movie/tv industry changed, I don't feel even slightly bad for someone who refuses to use a business model that works in the modern world and hiding basic content like this behind a paywall isn't that model.

Nobody gets a "high" from posting content, what kind of ridiculous projection is that? It's no one else's fault that you pay for content that yo don't have to but your own. Putting content like this behind a paywall in 2020 is an exercise in futility, it's just not a viable business model. It's kind of like the music industry 20 years ago when everyone was refusing to license content digitally, so then Napster rose up and they all realized that if they didn't get on the bandwagon they were screwed.

Don't tell me you're another one of those confused about how the internet works...

It seems like she needs to find a new career if she's can't get paying jobs through her Manager/Agent/Agency and has to resort to gouging her fans directly. I just don't get it.

She looks the same as always, other than sucking her stomach in for that pose

Is it more than these? https://imgur.com/a/bDKrk

Because it's 2020 and expecting to keep content like that behind a paywall is an exercise in futility. Join the modern world and build a business model that works instead of going against the grain.

All of the sets are exceedingly easy to find searching on google.

No skin off my back if you don't believe me, just contributing to the conversation.

Haha, because she didn't say it in a random media appearance I just made it up? I've actually known her for a couple years, along with a few other models here in LA, so I have no need to make anything up. Open relationships aren't exactly something new or groundbreaking around here.

Do you think that's really something she's going to talk about publicly in an interview?

Haha, pretty sure it's not!

Dating off and on, aka an open relationship from her perspective.

Lol, or not