SAINT PAUL, Minn. ( NewsNation Now ) — A 26-year-old woman with Down syndrome is making international waves as she competes to be featured in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition . Mikayla Holmgren says she wants to represent inclusivity.
"I love being on the camera and I just want to do it. I just want to be more involved in modeling because I did a lot of photoshoots and a lot of radio shoots. And it stuck with me every time I go," said the model.
She did Miss Amazing in 2015 and then competed in her first Miss USA state pageant. She made international headlines as the first woman with Down syndrome to compete in the system for the title of Miss Minnesota USA.
"I got to see all my directors and all my friends. It's cool. It's really cool to be on a stage and to have fun … and cameras," she said.
Mikayla has finished her video submission for Sports Illustrated. She even picked out the swimsuit she likes best for the audition with her mother.
According to the CDC, each year about 6,000 babies born in the United States have Down syndrome. Scientists estimate Down syndrome occurs in about 1 in every 700 babies.
Her mother says she still gets nervous when her daughter competes or models. Her hope is that she shines on stage through it all.
"Let them just try everything that they want to try. Let them find out what their likes or dislikes are. And be super supportive of them and be their advocate and help them achieve whatever they want to achieve," said Sandi Holmgren.
She says she wants to be in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition to inspire others to be empowered about who they are and encourage them to go for their dreams.
Here's what's been happening:
Maggie Rawlins, SI Swimsuit star and coronavirus nurse, once shared skincare routine for avoiding
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During that time, Rawlins opened up about her skincare routine and revealed how she kept her face bright after wearing a face mask for 12 hours a day.
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"My routine has changed a little bit over the last few months," Rawlins told Harper's Bazaar , explaining that she worked as a nurse in the Big Apple for three weeks. "I was a nurse before I started modeling and so I thought this was kind of the perfect time to get back to New York and help out the city that has been so good to me over the past few years."
Rawlins added that her skin "kind of freaked out" while wearing a mask all day, especially after "taking it off and Lysol-ing it, and then wearing it again the next day,"' she said.
"I'll wash my face twice, 'cause you're sweating, and wearing tons of PPE, and you're just breathing all day in this mask," she explained.
From there, the model wiped down her face with toning pads to help stop acne, rubbed in vitamin C and age-defying serums, and finished up with moisturizer. Frontline workers might also understand why she started rubbing Vermont's Original Bag Balm – a petrolatum-based jelly – behind her ears, as her skin there became "irritated" from wearing a mask all day.
Sports Illustrated taps 56-year-old Kathy Jacobs for Swimsuit Issue
CALABASAS, Calif. — Kathy Jacobs says it's important not to discount people because of their age or height. She should know – the petite 56-year-old is a brand new Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue model.
Jacobs, from Calabasas, California and who stands 5-foot-3-inches, hopes her appearance in the issue will help change readers' views of beauty.
"I'm just like so grateful that they took like a chance on me," says Jacobs. "Two things you can't change about yourself are how old you are and how tall you are."
The 2020 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue is online and on newsstands Tuesday. The cover features a trio of models – Olivia Culpo, Jasmine Sanders and Kate Bock, who also each have individual covers.
The original swimsuit issue ran in 1964. It has been a launching pad for models such as Kathy Ireland, Christie Brinkley, Elle Macpherson, Kate Upton and Ashley Graham.
Over the years the issue has tried to stay fresh, with painted bikinis, plus-sized models, unedited photos, tiny swimsuits, amputee models, older models and the addition of professional athletes and celebrities in relationships.
"That's the great thing about Sports Illustrated is they just keep reinventing themselves and they keep reinventing what is your view of beauty," says Jacobs. "And they keep showing people that there's more than one kind of beauty out there."
According to Sports Illustrated's website, the magazine discovered Jacobs during a recent open casting call.
"A year ago, I had just quit my minimum wage job sweeping the floor at Dry Bar and I said, I'm going to give this one last shot," Jacobs told Fox News . "I'm gonna take some headshots and send them out.
Camille Kostek Stuns In Bikini For ‘Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit’ Pic –
Camille Kostek , 29, was a gorgeous sight to see in her latest magazine pic! The model posed in a flattering bikini for her fourth appearance in Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit and it proved she knows how to turn heads over and over again. She was standing in front of water while wearing a white bikini that was lined in turquoise in the pic, which was posted to the outlet’s official Instagram page , and was all smiles as she held one hand up in her long blonde locks.
The caption for the photo pointed out the reason Camille has been chosen to appear in Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit four times and gave information on her background.
Soon after the photo was publicly shared, followers couldn’t help but gush over Camille’s stunning look in the comments. Camille, herself, also responded to the post. “ Year four and I’m choked up the same way I was year one,” she wrote. “I love this team turned to family more than I could put into words . @mj_day this write up means so much . I’m SO BLESSED TO BE BACK !!!!! Butterflies while I type 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋”
Before her latest appearance, Camille was first featured in Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit in 2018 and was named the cover star the following year. She also appeared in it in 2020 and shot her most recent images for this year’s in Hollywood, FL, which is close to her new home in Tampa. The girlfriend of Rob Gronkowski , 31, moved there after the football player signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers just like his former New England Patriots teammate Tom Brady , 43, did.
In case you are keeping track:
Mikayla Holmgren Sets Out to Be First Woman With Down Syndrome in Coveted 'Sports
The 26-year-old Minnesota woman is hoping to become the first woman with Down syndrome to be featured in the coveted "Sports Illustrated" swimsuit issue.
In February she submitted her casting tape for the mag's 2021 SI Swim search. Wearing a blue-and-white striped two-piece bathing suit, Holmgren smiles cheerfully and says: ”SI Swim has been such a champion of diversity of beauty, and now is the time to include someone like me [as she points to herself]. I am the first woman with Down syndrome in the Miss USA state pageant.” Then jokes, “I rocked my bathing suit on stage. Now it's time to rock the magazine.” She continues: "All women deserve to be celebrated. We need awareness for those with special needs."
Holmgren told Inside Edition Digital that she is not nervous at all, but excited and hopeful. “I just want to build awareness for those with special needs and especially those with Down syndrome,” she said.
Over the years, she has garnered many credits to her name, including Special Olympics athlete, gymnast (level 3), golfer, and model. She has been featured in campaigns for Sephora, Rosedale Mall, and Sigma Beauty, and is clearly, no stranger to the spotlight
In 2017, she was proud to participate as the first woman with Down syndrome in the Miss Minnesota USA pageant and in June will be doing it all over again as a contestant in the 2021 pageant.
Holmgren told Inside Edition Digital that she has always up for new challenges." “I have seen other Miss USA contestants do it. And, I said, I want to do this.”
“When I was born six weeks early, the doctors said that I may never walk or talk,” she told the audience at the press conference, “I proved them wrong.”
In 2018, the National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS), the leading human rights organization for individuals with Down syndrome, chose Holmgren's video out of 2,400 entries and featured it on a jumbotron in Times Square to kick off their Down syndrome walk in New York City, part of their National Down Syndrome Congress Awareness Week.
Holmgren, a graduate of Bethel University B.U.I.L.D. the program, holds a certification in education and works as a teacher's aide.
How Olivia Culpo Prepped Her Skin for 'Sports Illustrated Swimsuit'
Getting ready to grace the pages of Sport Illustrated Swimsuit obviously comes with a decent amount of preparation. And for Olivia Culpo , a returning cover star for the publication, that preparation obviously includes multiple visits to her esthetician, Toska Husted .
As it turns out, Culpo was so pleased with her in-office treatments, that she even has a follow up appointment on the books — this time with boyfriend Christian McCaffrey !
"They're going to have to [get the same thing], because he has to look good too," Husted jokes to Us Weekly in an exclusive interview.
But before deciding to bring her beau with her, Culpo attended two sessions solo to get her skin in tip top shape for the S ports Illustrated Swimsuit 2021 photo shoot.
The first appointment took place 2 weeks ahead of the shoot and was focused on clearing out congestion. "I did more of a deep cleansing treatment and some extractions, a peel — all the stuff you don't want to do right before a big event. You want to give the skin some time to come back from all of that," Husted tells Stylish .
Fast forward to 48 hours before the big day, and Culpo visited Husted at the Toska European Spa in North Carolina once again. This time, for the Toska Triple Lift, which is a sculpting and lifting treatment that takes about 90 minutes.
"I use a cocktail of serums and a micro current machine, which works out the facial muscles and lifts the skin," Husted says. The celebrity aesthetician, who has worked with Jennifer Lopez , Kim Kardashian and Mandy Moore , also gave Culpo a boost of oxygen and LED light therapy.
Of course, gadgets and gizmos are only half the battle. Having a top notch skincare routine is equally as important. And while Husted is still working on making sure Culpo washes her face "immediately" post-workout, she has successfully gotten her on-board with a Biologique Recherche regime.
One of her favorite products? Masque Vivant . "Vivant is a deep cleansing mask. A lot of people talk about it and say it smells horrible. But there's a little mind trick that we play. If I get her to looks at it before smelling it, she'll associate it with chocolate!"
Olivia Culpo Is Raising The Temperature In This Tiny Bikini For 'Sports Illustrated Swimsuit' -
The model and influencer just revealed on Instagram that she had been asked to pose for the iconic swimwear issue for the fifth time (!) in 2021.
“Feeling so grateful to be back with @si_swimsuit this year!!!” she wrote on the platform on March 22nd. Congrats!
The 28-year-old beauty is seen looking absolutely flawless in a rose-colored bikini from Tropic Of C (fellow model Candice Swanepoel’s swim line) in the pages.
Tagging editor MJ Day as well as hair stylist Lauren Kunijo , makeup artist Tracy Murphy , and tan artist Isabel Alysa on the post, Culpo proved that it truly does take a village to pull off these major magazine shoots! Snaps to all the glam and post-production stars for this one.
In a stroke of luck, her exact South Pacific Top in the "Adobe" color is available online--and is even currently marked down to $74, down from $100. You know we love a good deal!
"Sports Illustrated" Swimsuit Issue Features Its First Openly Trans Model | NewNowNext
Valentina Sampaio is making magazine history by being the first openly trans model in Sports Illustrated ’s annual swimsuit issue.
Sampaio made the announcement on her Instagram, revealing she would be featured as a 2020 rookie in the upcoming issue.
“I am excited and honored to be part of the iconic Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. The team at SI has created yet another groundbreaking issue by bringing together a diverse set of multitalented, beautiful women in a creative and dignified way,” she wrote.
“Being trans usually means facing closed doors to peoples' hearts and minds. We face snickers, insults, fearful reactions and physical violations just for existing,” she continued. “Our options for growing up in a loving and accepting family, having a fruitful experience at school or finding dignified work are unimaginably limited and challenging.”
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