Sports Illustrated Loves Models. Female Athletes? Not So Much

A recent study by the Department of Sociology at the University of Louisville asks a very good question: Where are all the women in Sports Illustrated? Unless they're models wearing bikinis, they're certainly not on the cover. Researchers found that of the 716 SI issues published between 2000 and 2011, a mere 35 of…

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Kate Upton Continues to Discuss How Antarctica Practically Killed Her

Ellen DeGeneres quizzed Kate Upton about her new Sports Illustrated cover. "This seems hard to swim in," offers DeGeneres of Upton's cover look, which included a jacket. "Well, Antarctica is also a hard place to swim in," replies Upton.

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The Back Cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Tells You to…

Did you notice the ad on the back cover of this year's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue? (You have a subscription to that, right?) It's a lot like the front cover, which features Kate Upton standing in freezing Antartica in nothing but undies and an unzipped winter coat (fun fact: this almost killed her), only instead …

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Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Goes to 7 Continents, Finds Exotic…

For the 2013 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, the magazine photographed models on all 7 continents. A world tour of ill-fitting "swim" wear! But sometimes a half-naked lady standing in front of a gorgeous natural backdrop just isn't enough. So the photographers used natives as props.

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Arizona Safeway Deems Jessica Simpson's Pregnant Belly Too Lewd to Be…

An alert tipster spotted this homemade device at a grocery store in Tucson, Arizona. It's blocking what was apparently determined to be a scandalous Elle cover featuring the very pregnant body of Jessica Simpson. The tipster reports that it's been there for a week; so it is certainly intentional, as the charming scrawl …

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We See London, We See France, We See Kate Upton's Vulva, Practically.

The cover of this year's famed Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue has leaked, and it is, well, revealing. Model Kate Upton is showing a great deal of sideboob, but more worrisome is what's happening down below. Isn't that suit—it's really more of an eyepatch, actually—so disturbingly small and low that some of her "crack" …

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