Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue
Posted by golfdk@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 70 comments
My Mom passed recently so my Dad figured it's time to do a deep clean/organize of the house I grew up in. There's old computer games, he's planning on digitizing the hundreds of VHS tapes, and he handed me this book of mine. The women are gorgeous, obviously, but the nostalgia waves were greater.
SomethingFunnyObv@reddit
Laetitia Casta issue was elite.
mickeltee@reddit
Deep cut crush right there.
ClosetDoorGhost@reddit
I just looked her issue up….yep. Soooo many memories of this. Instant recognition
Glittering_Rest_1607@reddit
Xennial of culture, I see.
Verbull710@reddit
I wonder if this will be about midlife guys talking about their masturbatory adventures
Columbiyeah@reddit
It's remarkable that the SI swimsuit issue has gone super woke in recent years. I picked up a copy and more than half of the women were either old, fat, or transgender.
Cthulhus-Tailor@reddit
Kathy Ireland was a huge crush of mine. I even watched that one Tales from the Crypt episode she was in over and over and…
eLishus@reddit
My dad somehow came across and brought home to gift to me multiple of those cardboard cutouts they often had at bars or liquor stores of women advertising beer. The two that were my favorites were Elvira and Kathy Ireland.
e0nblue@reddit
All I had was a Sears catalogue and you had life-sized cutouts in your room. Life’s not fair.
Baconoid_@reddit
I had a life-size Sears catalogue.
aqiwpdhe@reddit
How did you know your Dad came across them? I guess it left a stain?
FergalCadogan@reddit
She was a popular crush.
doompines@reddit
Have you seen Alien From LA? It's so bad, it was on MST3K. 🤣
Randym1982@reddit
I had to look up how she actually sounded back then, because I wasn't sure if that was her real voice. Turns out I was wrong, and she sounded like a "generic" hot chick back then.
curiouschick-1989@reddit
Same lol
SquirrelyMcNutz@reddit
What about that TFTC movie with Angie Everhart where she's playing a vampire madame.
BeignetsAndWhiskey@reddit
I don't remember the name of that football movie where she became the kicker, but damn she was hot in that.
The fact that I grew up to be attracted to pretty girls with a touch of tomboy to them is probably based on seeing that movie on HBO all the time as a kid
Skjellyfetti13@reddit
Necessary Roughness.
C001H4ndPuk3@reddit
That was a legit awesome movie, even aside from having Kathy Ireland. My brother and I would quote it constantly back in the day.
PmMeSmileyFacesO_O@reddit
What's the episode? The raft?
InitialKoala@reddit
"Beauty Rest"
drainbamage1011@reddit
I heard several years ago that she's into homebrewing beer as a hobby. Like, damn, I didn't need any more reasons to be attracted to the woman.
Al_Tilly_the_Bum@reddit
I was working at Wal-mart when that Tyra Banks swimsuit edition came out and I made regular trips to that aisle
DiazIsDirectCurrent@reddit
The '99 issue where they had the painted-on suits...
I surgically disected that issue and adorned my bedroom walls.
Disp0sable_Her0@reddit
Skylineviewz@reddit
My friend got sick of us sneaking looks off his prized possession and decided to throw it out to stop the fighting. I’m not proud that I glanced at his trash after he threw it out. He poured spaghettios all over it and I decided to cut my loss.
greaterwhiterwookiee@reddit
I bought this one at the grocery store and the lady at the register looked at the magazine, looked at me side eyed and said “mmm you go enjoy that.”
And I did
fromthedarqwaves@reddit
The one where she’s wearing a red with white polka dot swimsuit is permanently burned into my retina. I printed that one out with my crappy printer and pinned it to my wall.
mickeltee@reddit
I got in a ton of trouble for bringing a copy of my dad’s swimsuit issue to school in 6th grade.
platypus_farmer42@reddit
Closest thing we could get to nudity. This and the Victoria secret catalog.
fromthedarqwaves@reddit
Sears catalog for me.
Roland-Of-Eld-19@reddit
Are you ME?
fromthedarqwaves@reddit
Did you grow up in Oklahoma where the only catalog department stores were Sears and Service Merchandise?
okieboat@reddit
Yes 😭 But my divorced dad always subscribed to sports illustrated so a swimsuit edition could randomly be found if one was lucky and daring enough during any given visit.
Roland-Of-Eld-19@reddit
Nope a long way North of there🇨🇦
pianotherms@reddit
You don't deserve this shabby treatment.
everythinghappensto@reddit
Bzzzzz
platypus_farmer42@reddit
Yeah those underwear sections could get good
UndoxxableOhioan@reddit
Fredericks of Hollywood was where it was at.
platypus_farmer42@reddit
Oh damn I forgot about Frederick’s. They were also a little more on the risqué side if I remember correctly
night-swimming704@reddit
And Baywatch
IowaJammer@reddit
There were always a couple layouts that were damn close.
Cinderhazed15@reddit
Mmmm - lots of time spent on the pages with Laetitia Casta…
ScreenTricky4257@reddit
Definitely learned a good appreciation of sportsmanship.
curiouschick-1989@reddit
Snuck and loved taking the si copies to my room lol
Appropriate_Shirt_10@reddit
I used to have a Kathy poster on every wall in my room. hottest fighting armadillo ever.
FoppyRETURNS@reddit
chazysciota@reddit
Am I trippin or is her head like half-sized in this pic?
rnightlyfe@reddit
The fluids I spent from this issue. Sheesh.
RelevantNothing4653@reddit
(This is a TMI & NSFW response) ....
SI Swimsuit Issue was one of my first masturbatory experiences in my youth.
rnightlyfe@reddit
Unless we were able to steal a penthouse or VHS from a parent or older sibling, I dare say it was for many of us.
GW_Jefferson@reddit
Boxes of tissues
therealpopkiller@reddit
There was another magazine like sports illustrated that had a swimsuit issue and in eighth grade, I somehow got a few pages from this magazine or maybe it was the whole thing I don’t remember. Anyway, there was this girl in a sort of blue-green bikini - the most beautiful girl I’d ever seen then and for a long time after. Just stunning. And it wasn’t until maybe 20 years ago, so a good decade after I first saw the pic, that I found out it was a young Denise Richards. Didn’t enjoy it as much anymore.
Eziekiel23_20@reddit
Paulina Porizkova was my first SI crush. Still gorgeous.
Inc-Roid@reddit
I literally spent hours downloading a few pictures of Kathy Ireland back in the day, haha
GW_Jefferson@reddit
Kathy Ireland got me through a lot of puberty
Hannibal0341@reddit
I started puberty at 8. It was so awkward.
AmputeeHandModel@reddit
I think one of my first.. materials.. was a photoshopped nude of her downloaded from a BBS.
bcentsale@reddit
have1dog@reddit
I remember this….
bowleggedgrump@reddit
Yussssss - Rachel Hunter was my heavy crush during this time
Adrasteia-One@reddit
I can still remember vividly the one with Kathy Ireland, Elle MacPherson, and Rachel Hunter on the cover. They were by a pool. My 14-year-old self was so happy to somehow acquire that magazine, hehe.
midnight-dour@reddit
Never got it then, but I have for the last twelve years.
Ashley Graham (2016) is still my favorite cover.
JPhrog@reddit
Back when we had to be creative and imaginative!
Moxie_Stardust@reddit
If any of those are big box PC games, could be some money in those.
golfdk@reddit (OP)
This is a hardcover book that was probably one of their yearly gifts.
jcs@reddit
it was not a hardcover when it was received
ResurgentClusterfuck@reddit
Ewwwwww lmao
JiGoD@reddit
This issue in particular got me in trouble in junior high school when I brought it in and passed it around the lunchroom. Must be the 96 issue. Somewhere around there.