Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition: Martha Stewart is one of 28 models featured this year

Sports Illustrated is breaking the model mold this year for its annual swimsuit edition and to borrow a phrase from one of its cover models, “It’s a good thing.”

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Twenty-eight women have been chosen to be featured in the publication this year. While it will have more than two dozen models highlighted, one thing it won’t have is a theme.

“There is no theme [to this year’s issue] — rather, there is a vision, a sentiment, a hope that women can live in a world where they feel no limitations, internally or externally,” MJ Day, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition’s editor-in-chief, said. “But the absence of a theme is not to say that [these women] don’t share certain common traits. They’re constantly evolving.”

Four women will have their own individual covers for this year’s edition, Sports Illustrated said.

When we said this year was going to be epic, we meant it. Find out now who your 2023 SI Swimsuit cover models are!https://t.co/JmTTTteBEt
— Sports Illustrated Swimsuit (@SI_Swimsuit) May 15, 2023

Without further ado, here are the cover models for Sports Illustrated 2023 Swimsuit Edition:

Martha Stewart

The sports-focused magazine called Martha Stewart an icon. She’s an Emmy-award-winning television show host and founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. The mother and grandmother has one hundred million social media fans and has written 99 lifestyle books.

Stewart is also making Sports Illustrated history. At the age of 81, she is the oldest cover model for the swimsuit edition.

Martha Stewart is continuing to make her mark -- this time on the cover of the 2023 SI Swimsuit issue! See her like never before here https://t.co/BcQZcV7R6j
— Sports Illustrated Swimsuit (@SI_Swimsuit) May 15, 2023

Stewart said she accepted SI’s offer because she wanted to show that women can look good no matter their age.

“Age is not the determining factor in terms of friendship or in terms of success, but what people do, how people think, how people act, that’s what’s important and not your age,” she said.

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Photos: Martha Stewart through the years Here are some memorable photos of Martha Stewart through the years. (Christopher Polk/Getty Images)

Megan Fox

Megan Fox is known for her roles in such movies as “Transformers” and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” as well as her countless Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone and Elle covers.

Fox told Sports Illustrated that she hopes that this cover will show her in a different light, one that shows she is thoughtful, articulate and a deep person.

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Photos: Megan Fox through the years Here are some memorable photos of actress Megan Fox through the years. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic via Getty Images)

Kim Petras

Singer Kim Petras is joining Fox and Stewart as one of the four cover models this year. She released her first single “I Don’t Want it at All” six years ago. This year however she was the first transgender woman to win a Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for her partnership with Sam Smith on “Unholy.”

Day called Petras “a beacon of inspiration for the LGBTQ+ community.”

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Through the years NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 25: Musician Kim Petras attends "Spotify's Best New Artist Party" at Skylight Clarkson on January 25, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Spotify) (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Spotify)

Brooks Nader

Brooks Nader is no stranger to the swimsuit edition cover. She won the 2019 Swim Search open casting call and has been in the magazine since then. She has also created her own jewelry collection with Electric Picks which she wears in her cover photo.

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