BREAKING! Bar Refaeli gets Sports Illustrated cover for 2009

[underpants]

This undated image released by Sports Illustrated/Raphael Mazzucco, shows model Bar Refaeli on the cover of the Feb. 14, 2009 issue of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit, on sale now.
(AP Photo/Sports Illustrated, Raphael Mazzucco)

[Shell Beau]

1. Wow!

[mcctatas]

2. It is nice to see a woman who doesn't look like a 12 year old boy

and actually has some curves on the cover of a magazine!

[underpants]

3. All American girl

SI always had the "All American girl" type on the cover (Tiegs /Brinkley) not sure if they got away from that. Would have to check.

(runs up stairs to attic)

[BulletproofLandshark]

4. Which is ironic considering Refaeli is Israeli.

And also unbelievably hot.

[redqueen]

5. I fail to see how she's any different from most other swimsuit or VS models.

:shrug:

[AlCzervik]

7. i don't she is very different at all, here's another pic.

she looks pretty skinny to me and of course subtract another 10 pounds for seeing her in real life. She has a very pretty though.

[MrCoffee]

8. She's not

SI loves that body type.

[redqueen]

9. What body type? "Hot model"?

:wtf: am I missing here?

[MrCoffee]

12. Look at their covers from 2000 to now

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/swimsuit/collection/covers/

What two assets do all of those wicked-skinny girls have in common? No, not thier giant hipbones.

[redqueen]

14. Pass!

If you mean big-boobed just say big-boobed. Don't make me look at them... I feel bad enough as it is! :P

[underpants]

15. Tyra

THAT is an iconic photo.

[mcctatas]

11. I guess I was thinking more of fashion models...

I don't normally get the SI swimsuit issue

[Blue_Tires]

13. +1...they have all looked the same to me for years now

[Parche]

6. i think i have a Boehner

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

run shwing run

:hi:

[lost-in-nj]

10. those bathing suit bottoms

must be uncomfortable

she keeps pulling them down in all her pictures....

:shrug:



probably getting the butt floss out

:rofl:



she is/was Leo DiCaprio's girlfriend (not sure of the status)


lost

[Iggo]

16. Saaaaay....

She's a looker. And she's got those things I like.

[TZ]

17. This is why I don't read SI anymore.

How the FUCK is this justified in a Sports magazine. There are plenty of other girlie mags for that kind of stuff...

[underpants]

18. When it started it was in the middle of winter (basketball/hockey only)

so they came up with it to generate sales

Guess what

it did

I think a lot of the summer line of swimwear comes out this time of year to

[TZ]

19. Oh I'm sure

But the people interested in the new line of swimwear are NOT the people reading this magazine..:crazy:

[redqueen]

21. Good, cause they obviously don't want your money.

If they did, they'd show men's swimsuits (modeled by lots of oiled up beefcake of course) too ... the bastards.

[Bake]

24. Do I hafta explain it? Swimming is a sport!

And they're wearing "swimming" suits.

Duh.

Bake

[Iggo]

37. I don't read SI anymore...

...because it sucks as a sports magazine. In fact, all sports magazines suck compared to the internet.

[applegrove]

20. I always wanted to sew bathing suits. I tried to open such a business but I didn't have the right

machine so I gave it up. I tried to follow the trends in swimware. Sports Illustrated has only had bikinis for the last decade. It is ridiculous. Who the hell can wear a bikini unless you are ...like... 13. So I read wedding magazines instead to get the newest ideas for fashion of new necklines.

[Shell Beau]

22. I wear a bikini and I am 30.

I also do have some one pieces too.

[applegrove]

23. Wow.

[Shell Beau]

25. Should I not?

:shrug:

[applegrove]

26. No please. Wear a bikini. Hold you baby on your hip. Promote the myth

of Amazonian American Women to the whole world. Wear it Girl!

[Shell Beau]

27. I might think twice this year if my belly doesn't go all the way

back, but by wearing a bikini I am not promoting anything to anyone (except maybe my husband). It is my body and I will wear what looks good on it (reasonably).

[AlCzervik]

28. nothing wrong with that, wear what you like.

[Shell Beau]

29. I never even gave it a second thought.

Plus it makes a better tan if you are hanging out in the sun all day.

[AlCzervik]

30. i used to love laying out in the sun and now i try and avoid it.

in April i'll be in hawaii for 2 weeks, i'll be the one with all the zinc on my nose.

[Shell Beau]

31. I don't lay out anymore myself. But we go on the lake

all through the summer. We are in the boat from 9 am to 7 pm. I do lather up with sunscreen. I do like to get a little bronzed.

[SoxFan]

32. I won't believe it without photographic proof!

[Shell Beau]

33. Giggitty giggitty!

[kwassa]

35. Here is a story you will like.

A very attractive woman I used to work with went to the beach with her three-year old son. As the woman lay there in her bikini, some guy decided to hit on her with the outstanding come-on line "Hey, baby!"

Her three-year-old looked up angrily at the guy and said:
"I am NOT a baby!"

The woman said she almost died laughing.

[Shell Beau]

36. That is too cute!

[kwassa]

34. My ex-girlfriend used to create and sew bikinis.

She would design and sew all her own suits and sell then through swim boutiques and surf shops in Southern California.

Rough business, though, because people can copy your patterns simply by taking apart the suits and tracing them. Knock-offs!

She had five industrial machines in the back bedroom, and a cutting table.