Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model Haley Kalil explains why she cried after seeing her photos for the 2020 issue, which is available at newsstands now. The star was photographed in Scrub Island, located in the British Virgin Islands, by SI Swimsuit photographer Josie Clough. This year's issue features Olivia Culpo, Kate Bock and Jasmine Sanders as the newest coveted cover girls. The 2020 issue marks Kalil's second SI Swimsuit spread.
The Minnesota native made her Sports Illustrated Swimsuit debut in 2018 after participating in the franchise's first-ever open casting call. She was named the co-winner alongside Camille Kostek . This year, she's back for the upcoming issue which is slated to drop sometime this summer.
Before Kalil made her modeling debut, she was already making a splash in the science world. She graduated summa cum laude from St. Cloud State University with a 4.0 in biomedical sciences and psychology with a minor in chemistry. According to SI , the 28-year-old also published award-winning immunological research and worked with numerous local science programs to encourage young women to pursue STEM fields. Now, she's launching The Nerd Herd , an organization that aims to empower women to love their bodies while pursuing STEM studies.
Kalil spoke to Fox News about appearing in SI Swimsuit for the fourth time, the moment she nearly gave up her career, and how she deals with stereotypes.
SI SWIMSUIT MODEL HALEY KALIL EXPLAINS WHY SHE CRIED AFTER SEEING HER PICS: 'THIS HAS BEEN A LONG TIME COMING'
Fox News: This will be your fourth year in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit. What's that been like?
Haley Kalil: Honestly, I still can't believe it. It seems like just yesterday that I was making a video for them in hopes that I'll ever be considered. I never dreamed that I would be shooting my fourth spread for them. It's mind-blowing. I'm honestly honored.
I'm honored because this is how I got my start in modeling. Swim Search was my first access to the modeling world. And it has allowed me to inspire so many other women to celebrate their bodies. And I'm repping all the ginger nerds out there *laughs*. But really, representation is everything. It's one of the real reasons I wanted to be a part of Sports Illustrated because they were one of the first major fashion publications where I saw a redhead for the first time. And I thought, "Wow, everyone teases me at school for being a redhead. Here's this model who's beautiful and also a redhead." I felt I could be beautiful, too.
So for me, it's all about being that representation for someone else. I hope someone can look at me and go, "I see myself in her." That's really my ultimate goal with every single year that I shoot with SI.
Israel, Masks, Triple Crown: Your Weekend Briefing - The New York Times
On Saturday, Israel destroyed a high-rise building in Gaza that housed the offices of major media outlets, including The Associated Press and Al Jazeera. Hamas militants in Gaza fired more rockets toward Tel Aviv and protests broke out again in the occupied West Bank.
A little-noticed police action at the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem last month was one of several provocations that led to the current crisis. We reconstructed how the conflict exploded after years of quiet.
The Arab world has been unified in condemning Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. But in a changed region, where many Arab countries have normalized relations with Israel, the response so far has been rhetorical only .
3. Everyone agrees that the global supply of coronavirus vaccines needs to greatly expand. But no one can agree on how to do it.
Only 0.3 percent of the vaccine doses administered globally have been given in the 29 poorest countries. Several solutions have emerged: vaccine manufacturers stepping up production; waiving patent protections to allow more manufacturers to copy existing vaccines; and wealthy countries donating and exporting more of their stock. All of these carry risks — and there is no consensus . Above, a vaccine station in Johannesburg.
4. Covid-19 cases in the U.S. are dropping. Mask mandates are lifting. We talked to more than 700 epidemiologists on when and how Americans can fully return to normal activities.
The true end of the pandemic will arrive once at least 70 percent of Americans of all ages are vaccinated , with the inoculation of children being key to ending the health crisis, they said. As of Saturday, 36 percent of people in the U.S. are fully vaccinated. Adolescents just began receiving their shots this past week.
Masks, social distancing and other restrictions bought crucial time for Americans to get immunized and helped stave off a fourth wave of infections . Now masks can come off for fully vaccinated Americans in most situations, the C.D.C. said this week. A growing number of retailers are largely moving to an honor system .
With restrictions easing, Americans from Maine to Montana are returning to concert halls, houses of worship and soapbox derbies in all 50 states. Here's what it looks like .
Emily Ratajkowski's NFT sells for $140K at Christie's auction
In today’s head-scratching news, someone dropped $140,000 for Emily Ratajkowski’s first NFT, or non-fungible token.
In just six minutes of intense bidding at Christie’s auction house, a mystery buyer in New York City beat out online bidders in France and Monaco to pick up the token of the model’s "Buying Myself Back: A Model for Redistribution."
Well, technically, nothing physical to hang on the wall, but rather the digital ownership of the picture of her standing in front of an image of her that artist Richard Prince co-opted for his own series.
In a 2020 essay for the Cut, Ratajkowski said she was paid a measly $150 for that image, which was part of a shoot for Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue. Prince co-opted the image for his show, and the model bought it back for more than $80,000.
The buyer of this NFT will be helping her reclaim her image after having it "wrested from her for another's profit," as the auction's accompanying essay says.
"Works of unnamed muses sell for millions of dollars and build careers of traditionally male artists, while the subjects of these works receive nothing," she wrote on Instagram .
"NFTs carry the potential to allow women ongoing control over their image and the ability to receive rightful compensation for its usage and distribution."
"Emily owns the image as the image is not part of the medium," a Christie's rep explained to The Post earlier this week. "The work itself is the token alone, and the buyer will receive a token to the work."
But even though this seems like a high price to pay — after all, you can buy a Mercedes G Wagon for that price, or a four-bedroom house in Oklahoma — it’s digital diddly compared to other recent NFT sales. For example, the original meme of smiling tot Zoe Roth, aka “Disaster Girl,” sold for $473,000 in April.
Photographer Yu Tsai on supporting Asian American creatives: 'Why aren't there more?'
Yu Tsai has been championing diversity since the early days of his career as a celebrity fashion photographer.
After all, Tsai wasn't a photographer from the get-go. He's tried out many different careers and has been a wildlife biologist, creative director, photographer, TV personality and is now a host for a food documentary series and podcast. Because he had these doubts and felt the industry was a monolith, it took years for Tsai to see himself not just as a photographer, but as an Asian one, who could flex his creativity however he wanted. He credits journalist Lisa Ling for giving him the strength to lean into his identity as a gay, Asian man and achieve international success.
Tsai says he is a different person today than he was a year ago and he has a better understanding of how his career continues to impact the fashion industry.
"We know that the Asian community has been marginalized in so many ways and we know within our own communities that we have a problem. We can talk about the oppression, but within our own community, we have so much work to do," he explained. "We have to recognize that we're not a monolith, but within that, we have to celebrate each other's differences.
"To sit here and talk to you and to say that I'm the only few Asian photographers who made it on an international level and in America? It's crazy! I'm honored to be able to say that and recognize it and lean into it because I know it can inspire others, but it's crazy. Why aren't there more?"
For Tsai, what sells and what is considered sexy is not what he wants in front of or behind the camera: it's more Asian representation.
He's partnering for the first time with Harper's Bazaar Singapore to get more people of color involved on the creative side. Tsai will be mentoring young, up-and-coming creatives from various cultural, ethnic and racial backgrounds to work in the fashion industry. He hopes the initiative will open up more seats at the proverbial table for the next generation and combat systemic racism within the industry.
"For any of the stories that allow me to shepherd and mentor young BIPOC women, especially photographers, I am happy to give my stage — literally, my studio stage — my tools, and my team, and mentor them to be in the magazine," he said, referring to an acronym for Black, Indigenous and people of color. "Because here's the problem I see and people don't want to admit it, but I'll be honest about it: we are celebrating people of color in publications, but it cannot be performative."
The fight for representation is a marathon, not a sprint, and even Tsai admits to having moments where it's hard to stay in that lane.
Ashley Graham releases razor after receiving criticism for unshaven underarms
Ashley Graham has teamed up with Flamingo to release a razor shortly after facing criticism over her unshaven underarms.
In November last year, the model posted a nude selfie on Instagram, which showcased her armpit hair, and then in March, she shared another snap of her natural underarms.
She was prompted to speak out after coming under fire from trolls on social media who offered up unsolicited advice on how the mother-of-one should remove her underarm hair.
Ashley has now partnered with the personal care brand to create her own limited-edition shave set, as well as body wax, and she took to Instagram to announce the exciting collaboration.
"Remember when I didn't shave my armpits during quarantine and people threw a fit over it? Well guess what?! I made my own RAZOR. I teamed up with @meetflamingo on a LIMITED EDITION collection of body care for the summer," she wrote, alongside a series of campaign shots.
"I personally use my Flamingo razor when I decide to shave my armpits, keep my bikini line in tact, or (when I'm feeling extra fancy) and want to shave my legs. I (love) that no matter if you shave or wax (or let your hair grow every now and then), they have OPTIONS (sic)," Ashley added.
The Ashley Graham Shave Set, priced at $18 (£13), features a red razor, tie-dye exfoliating mitt, shaving gel, lotion, a shower holder and pouch, while the Ashley Graham Body Wax Kit ($10/£7) comes with large and medium strips.
"My philosophy has always been: shave what you want, wax what you want, leave what you want - do what works for you," the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue star said in a statement on Flamingo's site.
Chrissy Teigen and Courtney Stodden: the Twitter drama, explained.
On Saturday's episode of ICYMI , Slate's new podcast about internet culture, co-hosts Rachelle Hampton and Madison Malone Kircher revisit Teigen's past Twitter behavior and the many controversies that she's largely managed to come away from unscathed, raising questions about very nature of internet celebrity and who gets to attain it.
Kircher : To start, I need everybody to go back in time with me to 2011. Courtney Stodden—who was 16 years old at the time and a pretty average teenager-slash-YouTuber—made headlines because they got married as a teen to Doug Hutchison who is a 50-year-old acting coach, probably best known for his role as the creepy, awful prison guard in The Green Mile .
Stodden, who has since come out as non-binary told ABC that they met Doug Hutchison online and that they were able to get married because Courtney's mother knew about the whole thing.
Kircher : It's so gross. Also it wasn't just Anderson Cooper. That's the most horrifying thing, right? This was just the way people talked about Courtney Stodden's relationship in 2011.
Kircher : These tweets have since been deleted, but it's not hard to find screenshots of them online, and they're awful. Teigen in the 2011 era was just becoming the megafamous model-slash-mogul-slash-momfluencer-mompreneur. … There's a lot of slashes. This was all just beginning. She had been Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Rookie of the Year in 2010, she had briefly been one of the case-holding models on Deal or No Deal . She got married to John Legend in 2013. All this is to say that she hadn't quite become this megafamous Twitter person yet, but this was certainly someone who was less infamous and more famous than Courtney Stodden.
Hampton : As Teigen's star continues to rise, she seems to learn literally nothing in terms of how to interact with people on the internet, specifically and perhaps most worryingly, children. She came after not only Courtney Stodden, but Quvenzhané Wallis who played Hushpuppy in Beasts of the Southern Wild and also Annie in the Annie remake. In 2013, Quvenzhané, who was then 9 years old, spent so much time that year getting people to properly pronounce her name. That was apparently just too much for Chrissy to handle because during the Oscar's red carpet, Chrissy tweets, "Is it okay to call a small child cocky?" Before then, adding, "I am forced to like Quvenzhané Wallis because she's a child, right? Okay, fine."
Kircher : I feel like anytime Chrissy Teigen tweets anything, if you go to her mentions, you'll find people being like, "This you?"—with screenshots of the sorts of tweets we're talking about.
Kircher : As she's being attacked more and more by these alt-right, right-wing, whatever you want to call them, unsurprisingly, guess who appears tweeting about Chrissy Teigen?
Kircher : Donald J. Trump. That is true. In 2019, he referred to Chrissy Teigen as, John Legend's "filthy mouth wife."
Miss Universe Zozibini Tunzi on how she dealt with social media trolls: 'I am strong, but I'm
EXCLUSIVE: After a year and a half, the reign of South Africa's Zozibini Tunzi is coming to an end.
At the time, a total of 90 countries participated in the contest, which was hosted by Steve Harvey . Tunzi's triumph was the second for South Africa in Miss Universe. South Africa's Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters was crowned in 2017.
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Tunzi: I will be returning home to South Africa. I have so much work waiting for me there. I will be doing a lot of work on television. And I'm trying out for music as well. I'm testing the waters. And of course, I want to continue my humanitarian work because that's a huge part of who I am.
Fox News: You had a completely different experience as Miss Universe thanks to 2020. What was that like for you?
Tunzi: I mean, 2020 was a different experience for all of us *laughs*. It really took our plans and turn them upside down. Everyone knows that a huge part of this job is traveling to different countries and getting involved with work. It was tough at first when I came to the realization that I wouldn't be able to fulfill that part of my job. But with this platform, we still can make a positive change in this world. And that part wasn't taken away. My voice wasn't taken away. I was able to do it from home and virtually. And in that way, I was all around the world. I did all the things I wanted to do, share the messages I wanted to share. So it was a different experience, but an impactful one.
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Tunzi: Definitely being away from home and not being with my family. That was certainly the biggest challenge. I had to mentally prepare myself to do the job while being isolated in an apartment and not being able to really go out and interact with people. I think that was one of the hardest parts for me. And just wishing I could be out there doing more in person. That was frustrating for me as well. The pandemic in itself was my biggest challenge. But I wanted to create a virtual network of people where we can be together at home.
I wanted to create a platform where we could all come together and share our experiences, share what we were going through. I felt people were lonely and frustrated and going through so many things. It quickly grew into this talk show thing happening on Instagram where I would bring in different people from different countries and workspaces. I had psychologists in where we would discuss mental health. I had medical doctors, women from the United Nations, lawyers – just so many people to educate all of us during this time. I think that's how I dealt with it. I thought, "If I can't go out there, I'm going to bring people to be here with us."
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