Valentina Sampaio is first transgender
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model
by
Elana Fishman
Original Article
Posted By: AltaD,
7/10/2020 3:39:12 PM
Valentina Sampaio has made history by becoming the first transgender model to appear in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue, the special edition that catapulted Heidi Klum, Tyra Banks, Ashley Graham and Kate Upton to superstardom.
On Friday, the 23-year-old Brazilian beauty was announced as a 2020 rookie for the upcoming issue (out July 21). In the images, Sampaio poses in a shimmering gold bandeau bikini as well as an asymmetrical white one-piece.(Snip)Sports Illustrated Swimsuit has pushed for more diversity in its featured faces in recent years, casting Ashley Graham as its first plus-size cover girl in 2016 and Halima Aden as its first hijab-wearing model in 2019.
Not exactly a Cathy Ireland or Paulina Poriscova (sp?)
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
marbles 7/10/2020 3:46:28 PM (No. 473774)
The first guy wearing a woman's bathing suit on the cover of SI.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
4poster 7/10/2020 3:46:38 PM (No. 473775)
I like looking at young women. Not interested in young men. I’ll give this a pass.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
kono 7/10/2020 3:47:20 PM (No. 473777)
Trans what? Gender? Wearing a linguistic bikini? What a load of insanity.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
seamusm 7/10/2020 3:48:33 PM (No. 473779)
Yecchhh! Another Crocodile Dundee moment.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
cor-vet 7/10/2020 3:48:47 PM (No. 473780)
Well that's another five bucks I've saved. It's been a few years now, since I bought on of their issues, and don't miss them at all. With all their past beautiful women no longer their ideal, they've literally seen their better days.
30 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 7/10/2020 3:51:12 PM (No. 473785)
Absolutely SICK. The media has turned into the party organ of Satan.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
learner 7/10/2020 3:51:49 PM (No. 473786)
Seems like all sports these days are about politics not the games themselves or the players. I will take a pass. Bunch of overpaid juveniles claiming oppression. Spare me this drivel!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
twocentsworth 7/10/2020 3:51:57 PM (No. 473787)
Another soon to be "get woke, go broke". Fitting, since it seems most of pro and college sports is going that way too. It will all crater eventually and we can get back to something recognizable.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ho72 7/10/2020 3:52:08 PM (No. 473789)
Just say no. Nancy Reagan was way ahead of her time.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
smsnod 7/10/2020 3:53:40 PM (No. 473792)
I used to get SI when I was a teenager (late 60's, early 70's) because I love sports.
I always looked forward to the swimsuit issue - Cheryl Tiegs & Christy Brinkley were always my favorites.
I haven't bought or even looked at SI for along time. are long gone.It's only a few pages thick & all the columnists I liked are long gone.
Ashley Graham is a beautiful woman, but men in bikinis??!!...it's going to be a verrrrry long time - if ever - before I look at one again.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
john56 7/10/2020 4:01:37 PM (No. 473805)
You know, I think SI would sell more copies if they ran old pictures of Kathy Ireland, Cheryl Tiegs, Christie Brinkley (who I think is an alien life form -- she never ages), Paulina Porizkova, or Tyra Banks.
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The first FREAK Sports Illustrated swimsuit model.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
dbdiva 7/10/2020 4:08:43 PM (No. 473818)
I believe the swimsuit issue is their most popular?? I'm guessing that this one will not be. It look like it is more important for SI to make a statement and be woke than it is to make money. I wonder how the hijab wearing issue sold?
I read the essay this model wrote in which he said he was born trans in Brazil. How can someone be "born trans"?? As with all trans people he is mentally challenged.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
gop_guys 7/10/2020 4:13:27 PM (No. 473827)
Heaven help us all. Witchcraft...Satanic, you name it. Sign of the times. I’ve seen a lot in my soon to be 69 years.
19 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Quigley 7/10/2020 4:15:09 PM (No. 473830)
I guess they want to kill everything even male reproductive urges. It seems like if sex sells they’re getting rid of a lot of sales.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
pixelero 7/10/2020 4:17:08 PM (No. 473833)
So unnerving and insane. Sorry. Just not seeing it.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Highlander 7/10/2020 4:20:55 PM (No. 473836)
This is a picture I will not look up, search, uncover, discover, trace, nor find. I prefer not to have that image irrevocably imprinted in my memory bank forever. Fuhgeddaboudit!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
msjena 7/10/2020 4:23:00 PM (No. 473840)
Men are now taking over fashion modeling from women along with sports. Heads are spinning at NOW.
15 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
wilemon 7/10/2020 4:29:33 PM (No. 473845)
Quit them several years ago -after 30 something years -over their insane political correctness. Now they have hit bottom. Give them a few months more to slip out of sight.....
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
linkay6 7/10/2020 4:30:33 PM (No. 473847)
Cutting the ears off a mule don't make him a horse.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 7/10/2020 4:39:09 PM (No. 473853)
Who is the intended audience? Straight guys won't be interested. Gay guys won't be interested. Seems like it's designed for a niche audience. Will they buy this issue by the hundreds of thousands? Where are the feminists?
I've said it before. and it is still so painful. but I'm glad my parents and in-laws are gone. The first six months of 2020 have been insane. They didn't spend the best years of their lives in the sweltering heat of the South Pacific or the freezing forests of Belgium for these times.
Please God, Help Us!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
OhioNick 7/10/2020 5:09:11 PM (No. 473882)
You know what's funny? Barack Obama is more feminine than this dude who took steroids and had a lop-it-off-of-me.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Newtsche 7/10/2020 5:17:38 PM (No. 473895)
An apt representative of the wide world of sports these days where agenda and insufferable self-importance tramples the naive notion that it's all just a game. How fun. Not.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
franq 7/10/2020 5:17:52 PM (No. 473896)
The trump must be ready to sound.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Venturer 7/10/2020 5:19:13 PM (No. 473897)
An issue I won't be getting.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
swarfer 7/10/2020 5:42:10 PM (No. 473925)
Exactly how many people are interested in this sort of thing?
Are the owners just trying to get some buzz and increase circulation? Or do they intend copies will end up in waiting rooms of dentists and doctors so that they can disseminate their particular cultural-socio-politico views in an attempt to normalize it?
In media, small numbers of people control what is published, reported or said. Since there is so much money at stake, the advertisers are willing co-conspirators if not drivers. SI is no exception.
Like it or not, expect magazines and talk shoes try to outdo each other in the transgenderism rush to relevance. Get ready for a transgender NASCAR driver next to deflect some of the BLM bad buzz, but will they ban rainbow flags?
Makes you realize that America's problems are not her past but her present.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Faithfully 7/10/2020 5:43:49 PM (No. 473927)
SI and the media are our enemy. They are truly satanic. Probably friends of Jeff Epstein.
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That is absolutely disgusting.
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Last year was my last SI Swimsuit Issue. Never again...
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 7/10/2020 6:02:45 PM (No. 473942)
So it's the first bikini model with a natural "happy trail??" THAT will sell a lot of issues to horny teenage boys!!
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Mauigirl 7/10/2020 6:49:02 PM (No. 473986)
Sports Sophisticated is no longer a magazine for (as Kurt Schlichter would say) us normals.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
DVC 7/10/2020 7:11:54 PM (No. 474001)
Gross. Who would buy this other than the 'look at a train wreck' crowd?
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Yuban 7/10/2020 7:12:51 PM (No. 474003)
Puke.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Grateful 7/10/2020 7:40:13 PM (No. 474013)
A life long, unalterable XY impersonating an XX is on the cover of Science Denying Illustrated. How very sad.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 7/10/2020 7:42:24 PM (No. 474016)
As in the days of Noah, ...
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Ribicon 7/10/2020 7:44:08 PM (No. 474017)
USA 1980: "haha, pervert." USA 2020: "powerful and brave."
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
DVC 7/10/2020 7:56:38 PM (No. 474028)
Some guy taking hormones....
No thanks. Sick that the idiots running the magazine want to do this mess.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Daisy Mae 7/10/2020 8:18:17 PM (No. 474047)
Evidently an expert in tucking it in.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Ketchuplover 7/10/2020 9:13:48 PM (No. 474077)
Aptly named: Sports ILL-US-strated.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
hershey 7/10/2020 9:14:06 PM (No. 474078)
Well there goes Sports Illustrated down the toilet hole...
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 7/10/2020 9:19:10 PM (No. 474082)
Will all the photos be profile so we can't see the bulge?
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Safari Man 7/10/2020 10:06:04 PM (No. 474103)
Sports Ill
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
lakerman1 7/10/2020 10:11:41 PM (No. 474108)
There was a famous ad on TV, back in the 1960s, for shaving cram I think.
a beautfiul young woman looked at the camera and said, "Take it off, take it off, take it all off."
Now there could be an ad, with the words, cut it off, cut it off, cut it all off.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
NeverForget 7/10/2020 10:22:21 PM (No. 474111)
It's hard to imagine our society becoming more depraved. But I thought the same thing a dozen years ago. I know something even worse will appear soon. I just can't imagine what it might be.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
smcchk 7/10/2020 11:27:50 PM (No. 474139)
Going for the sports-loving, transgender demographic. Can’t wait to see them sales numbers!
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#27 No, they won't. All waiting rooms have been stripped of germ filled magazines.
It seems models have gone from emaciated girls to amputated boys. Remember, no one is too big to fail.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
watashiyo 7/11/2020 1:13:40 AM (No. 474200)
Sick. If God meant him to be a woman, He would've done so.
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