Martha Stewart lands ‘historic’ Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover Martha Stewart is seen on the cover of one of the 2023 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit editions, available on newsstands May 18. And this year, the Swimsuit edition also includes transgender pop star Kim Petras, along with women in their 40s ( Melissa Wood-Tepperberg) and 50s ( Padma Lakshmi) and curvier women whose bodies don’t fit the traditional swimsuit model aesthetic. In 2016, Sports Illustrated put plus-size model Ashley Graham on the cover. Last year, the magazine put plus-size model Yumi Nu on the cover, which spawned a meltdown among some men who were offended by the very sight of a larger woman in a bathing suit being billed as beautiful. Any expansion of a narrow and often punishing beauty ideal is probably good.Īnd Stewart isn’t the first or only Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model to break the tiny-20-something-girl-with-big-boobs mold. This year, the magazine is shaking things up, and essentially saying, “the elderly can be super-hot, too.” In a culture that ties youth to beauty, the women the magazine deems among the most beautiful in the world are typically many decades Stewart’s junior. Stewart does indeed look amazing on the cover of Sports Illustrated, and her presence there is historic: She’s the oldest cover model in the history of the Swimsuit edition, long an annual festival of the hottest of hotties: gorgeous, sun-kissed women who are (with a few exceptions) improbably thin and busty – and also young. In case it’s not obvious, I’m in the second group. Jill Filipovic Courtesy of Jill Filipovic
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