Your calendar countdown can end: The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue cover model has been revealed, and it’s Hannah Davis. And appropriately for a “Made in the U.S.A.”-themed issue, the U.S. Virgin Islands-born stunner was shot at Tennessee’s Blackberry Farm in (you guessed it) an itty-bitty bikini.
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Davis revealed her cover on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, showing off the “winning” pic of the more than 70,000 shot across the entire country (other key figures: 10,000 swimsuits were pulled, more than 50 locations — from Yellowstone to Kauai — were shot and 23 models were photographed).
For Davis’s third SI shoot (and first cover!), she went with photographer Ben Watts to Blackberry Farm, an enormous working farm in Walland, Tennessee (where Kelly Clarkson got married last year!).
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Says Davis about the reveal, “I am both shocked and excited to be this year’s cover girl. This has been a lifelong dream of mine and I feel so blessed to have this opportunity!”
Read more about the big reveal here, then tell us: What do you think of the shot? Do you love that she’s on the farm and not on a beach somewhere?
–Alex Apatoff
