Robyn Lawley insists Sports Illustrated "don't care about stretch marks or cellulite". The 34-year-old Australian beauty - who was the first plus-size model to pose for the publication in 2025 - was full of praise of the swimsuit magazine, which she has posed for countless time, and how they embrace bodies as they are. She told Page Six Style: “Sports Illustrated has always been very positive.
“They don’t care about stretch marks, they don’t care about cellulite and that really helps me to love my body for what it is.” Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion. Turns out, the brunette beauty had no idea she was pregnant during that very first shoot.
She recalled: “I was recovering from childbirth and pregnancy." Robyn insisted: “MJ [Day, SI Swim’s editor-in-chief] always makes me feel so good about my body.” By contrast, Robyn previously admitted she was "just furious" when she heard that the Victoria's Secret fashion show was making a comeback.
The show was revived following a hiatus in 2018 but with a more diverse range of body sizes, and the supermodel "rolled her eyes" when she heard the news as she questioned why that was never the case to begin with. She told Stellar magazine: "I rolled my eyes massively. I thought, ‘Why didn’t they include curve [models] in the 2018 show?’ It was like they reverted to skinnier [models].
I was just furious. I knew girls who were going through [castings for the show], per.
