Kate Upton has one of the most alluring bodies in the world.
And earlier this week the pinup from Missouri was showing off her assets as she posed in swimwear for a Sports Illustrated photo shoot on the island of Aruba in the Caribbean.
Her first look was a dark bikini that went well with her Caribbean sun-kissed skin and honey dyed locks.
Next came a silver one piece that had a cut out. She was seen pulling at it, which SI models often are required to do.
The catwalker’s long locks whipped in the wind and she wore flattering makeup that made the most of her Vogue cover girl face.
Upton has said many times she struggles with feeling good about herself while in swimwear.
She told: ‘I’m still not confident in a bathing suit!
‘That’s why you eat healthy and work out, to feel your best. You always have struggles. It’s not like I always feel my best. Everybody has moments where they don’t feel confident in a bikini. It’s what we’re striving for: self-love.
‘We work our way up. When I don’t feel my best, that’s OK.’
She also said she had critics early on. ‘Honestly, because coming from the fashion world, weight — when I first started modeling — was very important,’ she said.
‘How much you weighed, how much you needed to lose, whatever it was.’
But these days she said she is fine with her shape.
‘I’m not trying to be fit for a number on a scale. Whenever I’m happiest, I try to maintain that. I don’t need a number,’ she said.
Upton added she has never owned a scale in her life.
The leggy wonder has also told she learned as a teenager to deal with haters.
‘I got my first cover when I was 19,’ she began.
‘After my first cover, critics were discussing whether I was fat or not. I had this huge moment in my career and they were tearing it apart. I have to thank the people who did that because it really made me sit back and find out who I was and what meant something to me, and how I thought about my body.
‘At 19, I wasn’t thinking about that. I sat there answering all these questions I had about my body because I really didn’t know.’