Kate Upton said hello to the world on the cover of Sports Illustrated — and felt terrible about it. Well, not in the very beginning. Just until the creepers came around.
From Elle:
After my first Sports Illustrated cover, I felt terrible about myself for a solid month. Every single guy I met was either married or about to be married, and I felt like I was their bachelor present or something. I’m not a toy, I’m a human. I’m not here to be used. I am a grown woman, and you need to figure your shit out.
Word. She’s in a bathing suit, but she’s still a human being. And now she’s on the cover of Elle in a red dress with “HELLO SEXY!” in front of her. She’s still being fetishized but now it’s in a completely different way.
Don’t be on the cover of a swimsuit magazine half naked if she doesn’t want to oogled? Men are men, they like boobs and ass… So she can’t complain about the attention if she did it to herself.