Sports Illustrated Swimsuit's annual casting call is accepting votes for its newest star online through Aug. 31. The original swimsuit issue ran in 1964.
Achieng Agutu doesn’t have time for haters.the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit runway showThe 26-year-old, known as the"confidence queen," has been happily making a splash this summer – and she told Fox News Digital that she has a simple approach to addressing any trolls trying to bring her down.
"Now, it just feels good to block and prosper," she shared."That one person who has this nasty thing to say about you has nothing to do with you and everything to do with them. Like, you took time out of your 24 hours to write something nasty, post it and feel good about it. That’s insane to me." "It was midnight, and I was sitting outside because that’s the only place where I could get network," she recalled."I got an Instagram DM from SI. At first, I was like, ‘OK, sure.’ But when I checked my emails, I was just screaming. And then I called my dad who was in a different city, and then he started screaming. It was midnight, and I was screaming my head off. It was the best feeling in the entire world.
"Regardless of how much we want to discredit it, we do follow media," she shared."What we see is what we intake, which is what we emulate. So it’s important to show different bodies, different walks of life, different colors. The world needs to see it… And the fact that I’m a 26-year-old Black Kenyan woman who came from the small city of Kisumu to the United States and demonstrating that is empowering – not just for me, but for other people too.
This year, Martha Stewart became the oldest model to grace the cover of the annual swimsuit issue. The 81-year-old surpassed"I have had SI [Swimsuit] on my vision board since I moved from Kenya to the U.S. in 2013," Achieng Agutu told the outlet. Agutu admitted trying to find her way in the fashion industry was challenging, but she"never wanted to give up."
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