Couldn’t help it. I bought two copies of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Yeah, that’s right, I did. So there. Pfffftttt. That’s how much I love my husband.
With him, it’s a matter of aesthetics, or so he says. He just likes looking at women’s bodies. Yes, we all know men are visual creatures. No surprise there, but here’s the kicker… This is why I do it every year —
He says it’s tradition. Ever since he was a ten year old boy, when girlie magazines were verbotten, he could always depend upon the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue - the Christie Brinkleys of the world to warm his little boy’s heart. He’s never missed one. Yup, gets to me every time. I picture that cute little boy curling up in bed with his Sports Illustrated…
The truth is, I look at them too, although I do prefer ESPN, The Body Issue.
SI has it’s good years and it’s bad. Good years - the Paulina Porizkova years. Bad years - the ever-present thumbs stuck in the swimsuit bottom years, or what I call the T&A years without any redeeming scenery.
This is a good year. Why? A couple models with cankles. Seriously. When have you ever seen cankles in SI? Real-er bodies - a variety of shapes and sizes. Some gorgeous, scenic photos - with models positioned like frosting on a cake. Using actual athletes for the body painting. Cute suits, except for two. A conure in Panama! (Can you find it? It’s like Where’s Waldo?) Irina Shayk looking exceptionally pretty and Izabel Goulart’s great butt. See? I can appreciate an aesthetically pleasing female form every bit as much as my husband. (Sans malice. Yeah… right.)
But most important, SI significantly decreased the number of photos of models pretending to tug down their swimsuit bottoms, or as my husband says…they need to pee so bad they just might do it on-camera.
Oh, why did I get two copies? My daughter always wants one. She loves to look at the suits.
Speaking of copies… Incorporeal can still be yours for free through February 18th.
And for $.99 you can add this to your Kindle list -
The Devil His Due, by JW Manus.
Bub is the Prince of Darkness’s top producer. Every month, without fail, he provides thirteen souls, signed, sealed and delivered on parchment scrolls. Trouble comes when Bub bargains for a soul so twisted even the devil wouldn’t want it…
If my hubby cared about it I’d buy it too.
I don’t believe you. There is no way the models in the SI swim suit edition have cankles. Come on! I refuse to buy an issue just to see. What page are they on?
You’re a loving person! What a sweet Valentine to share.
Cankles? Oh dear I better go check and see if I have to worry…lol
XXOO Kat
You are one awesome wife. My hubby lost interest in SI swimsuit many years ago. We used to buy it, but he doesn’t seem to care anymore.
Now that’s love and security in your own womanhood. Makes for a great marriage. I too sometimes longingly look at SI models mile long legs and tanned (though air-brushed) bodies and wish I could have just a bit of it in my own physique, but nah. My husband seems to like me for me. And I don’t care if he looks at their pictures.
Reminds me of the time when Ishbel and her Mum were going to the American Sector to shop at the PX in Berlin and they asked If I wanted anything brought back. I thought for a while and eventually said yes Knowing that they wouldn’t mind after all I think we were engaged by then - me and Ishbel that is - not me and Ishbel’s mum - rambling - anyway I said yes, can you get me an ooooh. The both looked at me blankly, still do after 35+ YRS and Ishbel’s mum said. “What the hell is an ooooh!
I said it’s a mens mag, it’s called ooooooh
Ishbel’s mum said “ooooooh, never heard of it, now she worked in the British equivalent of the PX the NAAFI, so she knew what most things were, including mens mags, so she said “Spell it” and I said
OUI
and she said “Ishbel we must have a talk, he’s a prat he means WE as in frnch OUI !
Just saying
But they did get me it in the end
xxxxx
Oh Tom, Ishbel is so sweet! And feel free to ramble…
Hey Michele, thank you for stopping by! Yeah, some of the models have amazing bodies, but we can’t all be them… My husband loves me for what I am too so that’s it! Yes, lots of air-brushing, but great bone-structure! LOL!
Hi Casey - he only wants the Swimsuit Issue. Otherwise the magazine is a bust.
Wait, Kat, are you secretly one of the models??? Yeah, I’m happy about the cankles. Even an SI Swimsuit model can have cankles. Now that’s equal opportunity!
Better go buy it, Penny!
Hey Amber - the photography is really good this year.
That is a teeny, weeny suit on the front cover…
Hey Anny, I thought so too!
You’re very good to your hubby.