Blondes in Their Underthings!

Continuing my important work of picking out SI models from other site’s hot girls lists, I bring you BroBible’s hottest blonde swimsuit issue models who are also lingerie models.

Blondes#5: Esti Ginzburg
#14: Shannan Click
#18: Ana Beatriz Barros
#20: Jessica Hart
#39: Anne V
#40: Jessica Perez
#42: Petra Nemcova
#59: Tori Praver
#68: Jessica Van Der Steen
#88: Marisa Miller
#90: Kate Upton
#92: Bar Refaeli
#95: Brooklyn Decker
And, just because I sense she’s feeling left out, here’s a lovely shot of Cintia Dicker.

Happy Birthday, Bar and Tori

Mind those bottoms, girls.
On this day in 1985, Israel gave us Bar Refaeli.
One year later, Hawaii gave us Tori Praver.
Let us gaze upon these two glorious specimens from the late aughts.Happy 26th, Bar, and happy 25th, Tori.

BONUS:
Tori is now a swimwear designer, and one of her bikinis was featured in 2011, on the lovely body of Izabel Goulart.There’s something heartwarming about that.

Oscar Night

The swimsuit models interpret the nominees for Best Picture:

Black Swan• • •
The Fighter• • •
Inception• • •
The Kids Are All Right• • •
The King’s Speech• • •
127 Hours• • •
The Social Network• • •
Toy Story 3• • •
True Grit• • •
Winter’s Bone

Your 2011 Rookies

The Rookie Class of 2011 has been announced. Let’s take a look at where each of them fits in the swimsuit model spectrum.

Kate UptonShe’s the most classic-looking, all-American, SI-type swimsuit model of the bunch. I see her as today’s Tori Praver.• • •Alyssa MillerThose are some major-league eyebrows. I see her as Yasmeen Ghauri’s face with Yamila Diaz’s lips.• • •Shannan ClickLooks to me like a combination of Molly Sims and Carolyn Murphy.• • •Kenza FouratiThis Tunisian model is highly unusual for SI. Most of the photos I found of her online show her in moody black & white fashion shots. It took me a while to think of an equivalent, but I think her look has the Frenchy, art-house ennui of a Laetitia Casta.• • •Izabel GoulartI figured that Daniella Sarahyba would not be in the 2011 issue. So they needed another 26-year-old Brazilian model to step up, and they found Izabel. If Daniella smiled less, they’d look even more similar.• • •The folks at Lowdown Blog place their bets on 2011's cover girl, and they put Julie Henderson at #3, after Anne V and Irina Shayk. (They also refer to the 2011 issue as the 49th. Meanwhile, the guys at Bro Bible seem to think it’s the 38th. Guys—it’s the 47th.)

9/22/11 ETA: Holy cow, it's the 48th. What's my problem? Math is hard.

Bottom Out

Every swimsuit issue has a handful of topless pics, wherein the breasts are covered by the model’s hands, a prop, or a well-placed obstacle.And with surprising regularity, a swimsuit issue will present to you a model who’s completely naked, twisting her body to hide from you that which must be hidden.But in all my years of flipping through swimsuit issues, I have happened across only two photos of models who are wearing tops but not bottoms. And they are the aforementioned Tori Praver (2008) and Melissa Haro (2009).Thank you ladies, from the bottom of my heart.


UPDATE: Add Ana Paula Araujo to the list.

UPDATE #2: And Chrissy Teigen.