February 20, 201411 yr I hope Sara wins ROTY, IMO she had the best photoshoot by far, she looks amazing, there's not one picture of her that I didn't love. I would even say she is my favorite girl this year, with Upton & Emily coming in a very very close second and third. Most of the rookies were quite meh to be honest, Marloes who i had big expectations for looked just okay and I adore her but she didn't deliver. And Valerie? I was so excited to see her, I thought she was going to be Kate Upton 2.0 but her whole photoshoot is a disaster, also she looks awful in both SI events they've had so far and that isn't really helping her in my eyes, I was a fan and now I hope she never ever comes back to SI
February 20, 201411 yr I agree that most of the rookies were meh. Overall the magazine was beautiful though!
February 20, 201411 yr thanks PinkCouture for the pictures and donbot for the videos. i voted for emily and hope she wins.
February 20, 201411 yr I hope Sara wins ROTY, IMO she had the best photoshoot by far, she looks amazing, there's not one picture of her that I didn't love. I would even say she is my favorite girl this year, with Upton & Emily coming in a very very close second and third. Most of the rookies were quite meh to be honest, Marloes who i had big expectations for looked just okay and I adore her but she didn't deliver. And Valerie? I was so excited to see her, I thought she was going to be Kate Upton 2.0 but her whole photoshoot is a disaster, also she looks awful in both SI events they've had so far and that isn't really helping her in my eyes, I was a fan and now I hope she never ever comes back to SI phhhlease u are refering emily d right? haha
February 20, 201411 yr ^ Yeah, I forgot about the other Emily, that's how forgettable her shoot was to me
February 20, 201411 yr Been voting Lily all day. Guess it is not making a difference. Sara winning would be cool with me though.
February 20, 201411 yr Nothing will make a difference. The bottom line is that the winner will be whoever the SI Staff wants to win, I don't know why they bother with the voting anymore, they should go back to 2008-2011 and name the ROTY themselves
February 20, 201411 yr Kinda of late but...... The models that stood out the most to me where Lily (the rookie imo), Hannah D, and Nina. Kate U did pretty good this year as well. I liked Sara pics girls is def SI material, but she looked like she was trying a little too hard to be sexy in some of her shots. Bregje as a bangin body and def knows how to werk it, but her makeup did her no favors and she looked pissedoff/ kinda of harsh in just about all her pics. I love me some Emily D but a lot of her pics did her no favors ( I mean how do you make Emily Didonato look meh????) and she looked like she a bit overwhelmed with the dogs, moutains, and what not. Irina, Genevieve, Jessica, Chrissy, Kate B, and Hanna F has some pretty good pics here and there but really didn't bring it and ended up getting lost in the crowd. Cris and Samantha have some of THE MOST AMAZING BODIES imo, but they both just looked so bored and unimpressed in thier shoots. I actually liked Gigi's she wasn't the best, but I like how she sort of brings the the cute/sexy girl next door vibe to the mag that is needed and she has a nice body and is a pretty girls imo. Chanel was a suprise to me. It's nice to see how she is coming into her own and how her body has filled out over the years and I like how they kept her looking natural. Althought she had some nice pics I'm still not 100% sure about her as an SI girl just yet. Valerie def gives Kate U a run for her money in the boob department and girl has a pretty nice body overall imo, but like others have said her face isssss yeah...... and her pics were petty meh. (Hate to say it) Anne, Ariel, Natasha, Lauren, and Emily R were pretty forgettably all together imo. I'm suprise about Emily R since she was so hyped up and this seemed right up her ally. Now that we've seen all the pics who do you all think will/should make the next year's issue?
February 20, 201411 yr But it's also true, that if the ROTY should be appointed only on the SI shoot value, Sara deserve to win it We need to have a scale for appoint which rookie deserve to win this reward...
February 20, 201411 yr Now that we've seen all the pics who do you all think will/should make the next year's issue? People are already having that conversation in the 2015 thread. Damn, it's going to be 2015, where is my jet pack?
February 21, 201411 yr Author i'm going to occasionally post the ROTY percentages so we can see how wildly they change... February 18, 7:15pm34% Emily Ratajkowski34% Gigi Hadid14% Sara Sampaio7% Hannah Ferguson February 19, 8:45pm33% Emily Ratajkowski33% Gigi Hadid16% Hannah Ferguson11% Sara Sampaio2% Samantha Hoopes February 20, 7:15pm29% Emily Ratajkowski29% Sara Sampaio25% Gigi Hadid8% Hannah Ferguson7% Samantha Hoopes Note: I'm rounding the percentages and so the top two appear tied, but EmRata is slightly ahead and has been every time I've checked. For instance, right now she's at 28.75% to Sara's 28.72%. VERY slim margin.
February 21, 201411 yr SI 2014 Review Irina: Good but I don't know if that justifies seeing her next year for the 9th time. And her ass died.
February 21, 201411 yr Been voting Lily all day. Guess it is not making a difference. Sara winning would be cool with me though. I echo this sentiment.
February 21, 201411 yr I think we know by now this is all an effort in futility....WE DON'T PICK THEM OR THE RESULTS ARE PURPOSELY FUDGED DURING VOTING!
February 21, 201411 yr Author a few stats about the 2014 issue. note that i'm counting models, not legends, athletes, etc. number of models: 24, the highest ever. the previous high was 21 in 2000 number of rookies: 12, the second-highest since 2000's 13 rookies number of returning rookies: 4, or 100% of last year's rookies. this marks the first time since the concept of rookies was introduced in 1999 that all of the rookies came back. number of veterans: 12, roughly equal to the average of the last decade rookie to veteran ratio: 1.0, the lowest since 2000 (diane smith's second year as editor) and the first time since 1985 there are an equal number of new models was equal to the number of returning models Lily Aldridge became the 5th model in the last 25 years to get the cover in her first appearance. previously, the most recent was Heidi Klum in 1998, before the concept of rookies. perhaps her feat is more comparable to Valeria Mazza, who shared the cover in her first appearance in 1996. Kate Upton becomes the 1st model to be featured on the back cover, traditionally a prime advertisement spot. also, it's essentially Kate's 4th appearance on the cover, meaning she's been on the cover in some form every. single. year. on that note...boobs: huge. probably the biggest they've ever been. also, butts: 2nd backside-dominated cover. the only other one was ann simonton in 1974 2014 marks the 16th year of bodypainting, but it's the 1st time since 2002 that the words 'body paint' or 'paint' do NOT appear on the cover! Anne V's 10th appearance continues her record number of appearances without a cover. Jessica White appeared 8 times in the magazine, but she at least was seen on the cover as an inset in 2005. for total number of appearances, Anne is still two years shy of tying Kathy Ireland's record. Irina made her 3rd appearance after her 2011 cover. no other cover model in the past 9 years has returned so often after getting the cover models' average number of appearances: 2.75, lower than some recent issues but still fairly high considering half of the models are rookies. had Anne V and Irina not returned, that number would've been 2.0, or the lowest since 2001.
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