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  • This image provided by Sports Illustrated shows the cover of the magazine's 2013 Swimsuit Edition featuring Kate Upton, which will launch across multiple platforms on Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Sports Illustrated, Derek Kettela) NORTH AMERICAN USE ONLY UNTIL MARCH 5 2013; MANDATORY CREDIT: SPORTS ILLUSTRATED/DEREK KETTELA
  • The 2012 Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition features 19-year-old model Kate Upton wearing a very tiny red-and-brown, sparkle-covered string bikini.
  • From Russia with love: Irina Shayk scored the cover of the 2011 swimsuit edition.
  • In 2010, it was model Brooklyn Decker, who happens to be the wife of tennis player Andy Roddick.
  • The magazine chose the significant other of another famous man in 2009 when Bar Refaeli graced the cover. She and Leonardo DiCaprio have since broken up.
  • Everyone has a favorite cover, and the 2008 version that features supermodel Marisa Miller is sure to get more than a few votes.
  • In 2007, the magazine broke away from its tradition of using supermodels on the cover and instead chose to go with a 'Dreamgirl': Beyonce.
  • Eight models graced the cover in 2006. They were Carolyn Murphy, Daniela Pestova, Elle Macpherson, Elsa Benitez, Rachel Hunter, Rebecca Romijn, Veronica Varekova and Yamila Diaz-Rahi.
  • The cover belonged to Carolyn Murphy in 2005. And SI came up with a new concept for the issue: model trading cards!
  • Veronica Varekova went topless for the 2004 issue, not that you could see anything.
  • NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 18: Cover model Petra Nemcova attends the 2003 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue press conference held at Gotham Hall on February 18, 2003 in New York City. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Getty Images)
  • Yamila Diaz-Rahi during Sports Illustrated 2002 Swimsuit Issue Launch at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, New York, United States. (Photo by Jim Spellman/WireImage)
  • NEW YORK, UNITED STATES: Model Elsa Benitez of Hermosillo, Mexico, poses along side her photo cover of the 2001 Sports Illustrated Magazine during a press conference with all the models from the new swimsuit issue 20 February 2001 in New York. AFP PHOTO Timothy Clary (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
  • 364918 10: Czech model Daniela Pestova poses in front of her Sports Illustrated 2000 swimsuit issue cover February 22, 2000 in New York City. The swimsuit issue is Sport Illustrated's highest selling issue every year. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Liaison)
  • FILE PHOTO: Rebecca Romijn Stamos at the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition launch party at Supper Club in New York City February 9, 1999. (Photo by Diane Freed)
  • It was all Tyra Banks in 1997, when she reminded the world of the appeal of the itsy, bitsy, teeney, weeny polka-dot bikini.
  • Valeria Mazza and Tyra danced on a South African beach for the 1996 cover.
  • The first swimsuit edition, published Jan. 20, 1964, featured German-born Babette Beatty.
  • Since the regular swimsuit edition is so popular, those crazy SI editors thought they would appeal to the ladies by putting former Giants cornerback Jason Sehorn in swim trunks on the May-June 2001 cover of Sports Illustrated for Women.
  • The 2012 Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition features 19-year-old model Kate Upton wearing a very tiny red-and-brown, sparkle-covered string bikini.
 

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