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Up for sale an EARLY! "Super Model" Kate Upton Hand Signed 8X10 Color Photo.
June 10, 1992) is an American model and actress. She first
appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit
Issue in 2011, and was the cover model for the 2012, 2013 and 2017 issues. In
addition, she was the subject of the 100th-anniversary Vanity Fair cover.
Upton has also appeared in the films Tower Heist (2011), The Other Woman (2014)
and The Layover (2017).
Upton was born in St. Joseph, Michigan. She
is the daughter of Shelley (née Davis), a former Texas state
tennis champion, and Jeff Upton, a high school athletics director. Her Upton. Upton's great-grandfather, Frederick Upton, was
co-founder of appliance manufacturer and marketer Whirlpool Corporation. In
1999, Upton moved with her family to Melbourne, Florida where
she was a student at Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy. As
a young equestrian, she showed at the American Paint Horse
Association (APHA) and competed at a national level With
her horse Roanie, she won three APHA Reserve World
Championships – 13 and Under Western Riding, 13 and Under Horsemanship,
and 14–18 Western Riding. She was named the 13 and Under Reserve All-Around
Champion, giving her a total of four reserve championships (2nd place). In
addition, Upton ended up third overall on the APHA youth Top Twenty With a
second horse, Colby, she won 14–18 Western Riding and was included in the
top 5 in 14–18 Horsemanship and 14–18 Western Pleasure in 2009. Upton attended
a casting call in Miami for Elite Model Management in
2008 and was signed the same day. She eventually moved to New York City, where she then signed with IMG Models. Upton
first modeled clothing for Garage and Dooney & Bourke. She was the 2010–11 face of Guess In 2011, Upton appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit
Issue She was featured in the body paint section and named Rookie of the Year for the
issue. She has since modeled for Beach Bunny Swimwear, and has
appeared in Complex and Esquire as "The Woman
of the Summer" Upton wore one of the Beach Bunny suits in the
2014 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. In April 2011, an Internet
video of her doing the dougie hip-hop dance at a Los Angeles Clippers game
went viral and served to increase her popularity Guy Tr of The New York Times observed
that this served to illustrate the power of social media to bestow stardom upon
a model, which had previously been the domain of top designer runway shows. In
April 2012, Upton appeared in a video of herself performing the Cat Daddy dance
to the song of the same name by The Rej3ctz, which also went viral. Upton made an appearance
in a June 2011 episode of Tosh.0] and participated in the 2011 Taco Bell All-Star Legends & Celebrity Softball Game
at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, in July 2011. Upton's acting debut was in
the film, Tower Heist, as Mr. Hightower's
mistress. It was released in November 2011. She also appeared in The Three Stooges as
Sister Bernice. Upton appeared on the cover of the 2012 Sports
Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, released in February 2012. Upton has also
recounted the negative aftereffects of the 2012 Sports Illustrated cover,
as she was subjected to criticism and felt she had been objectified.
Upton has appeared in editorials for American, Italian, British, Spanish,
German, and Brazilian Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, V, Mademoiselle, LOVE, Italian, German, and American GQ, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and Esquire. She has
appeared on the covers of Italian, American, and British Vogue, French and American Elle, American, Italian, and erman GQ, Esquire, and Vanity Fair.She has
appeared in advertising campaigns for David Yurman, Sam Edelman, Betsey Johnson, Guess?, Victoria's Secret, Express, and Bare Necessities.
She was named the "new face" of Bobbi Brown cosmetics in 2014. In 2012, she was ranked
the fifth-sexiest model by Models.com She ranked #3 on the American
publication of AskMen's Top 99 Women for
2013. In 2012, she was listed on Maxim's Hot 100 list, citing her photo shoots with Sports Illustrated. Upton
was the cover model for the 2013 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue for
the second consecutive year. Parts of her 2013 Sports Illustrated pictorial
were filmed in Antarctica and Upton suffered from failing hearing and eyesight
due to the extreme cold. After getting the November 2012 Vogue Italia cover photographed by Steven Meisel and the January 2013 Vogue UK cover, Upton landed the June 2013 Vogue cover by Mario Testino. She was then photographed by Annie Leibovitz for the October 2013 100th anniversary
cover of Vanity Fair. In
September 2013, Upton was named Model of the Year at the 10th
annual Style Awards at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York.[ Upton
appeared on the flip-side cover of the 2014 Swimsuit Issue, the first time that type of cover was used by
that magazine. Part of her shoot took place at Cape Canaveral, capturing her in zero gravity. In April 2014, she appeared with Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in
the comedy The Other Woman as
Amber, one of Coster-Waldau's character's mistresses. In 2014, Upton starred
with Tony Hale in Lady Antebellum's music video "Bartender". People named Upton its "Sexiest Woman" for
2014, the first time the title has been awarded. Also in 2014, Upton was
the centerpiece of a $40 million advertising campaign for Machine Zone's mobile
app Game of War: Fire Age.
In 2017, Upton starred with Alexandra Daddario in The Layover, a road trip sex comedy directed by William H. Macy. The film follows two best friends (Daddario
and Upton) on vacation as they fight over the same man during a layover
in St. Louis. Also that year, Upton appeared in James Franco's film adaptation The Disaster Artist, about
the production of the film The Room.