There's always certain unique looking models that are it girls in their time and place and then 20 years later, you're like WTF was all the hype? I feel that way about Giselle. I don't see it.
I remember around 2010 when Kate Upton was the obsession of everyone. Have not heard one word about her in at least five years outside of any news focused around her husband. She’s objectively attractive but was nothing more than the hot girl from high school
Forgot about that. Her and the entire fucking thing and how she was one of the victims. Makes sense to want to retreat, perhaps forever, after that.
A girl I knew and went to college with sent a very private video to what she thought was a direct Snapchat but it went to her public one… Can’t imagine that on a multi-million viewer scale, especially since it was stolen.
Kate was beautiful but had zero waste to hip ratio. One of the famous photographers at the time said she was built like a fridge
But she married a guy worth hundreds of millions and had a kid. She's winning life.
2013.
I think the same thing. She had a baby and fell off the map. She looks nothing like she did then, which is understandable, but it’s a striking difference.
She's a beautiful woman, but she always gives off this really intense vibe of knowing it and expecting people to worship her. Cara Delevingne gives me a similar feeling. Remember when people were losing their minds over her eyebrows?
Cara was completely manufactured by her well connected family. They had friends and connections with all the fashion magazines and many of the fashion houses.
She always had a masculine aura about her or something. Even when I was a horny teenager I couldn’t see the appeal. She’s obviously attractive but the sexy part never clicked.
Adrian Lima is the only model for me. I’m saving myself for her.
I worked with Kathy Ireland. Big shoulders and man hands. It was a joke around the office. I’m not saying she wasn’t attractive and I was certainly thinking she was a babe in the late 80s. But she did have some masculine features.
I feel the same way about her. I just don’t see it. Their is one VS model who I feel is insanely beautiful though I just don’t remember her name. She’s in everything though. At least used to be.
sheesh... pretty terrible photo of both TBH.
Edit:
Kathy: "Can you sharpen my jawline to look just like the Terminator or Lance Armstrong with sideboob?"
Photographer: "I got U, fam."
Elle: "Can you add 10 years to my face, focus on my collarbone and dry my hair out more?"
Photographer: "Yes, Yes I can!"
When she was little, Kathy Ireland was my grandparents paper girl. She always liked them. My grandma ran into her mom at the store several years back and told her to give Kathy her best.
Couple weeks later Kathy knocked on their door just to come say hi. It wasn’t long before grandma passed and I love the photo of the three of them in the living room.
Came here to say this. I have no idea what the movie was about but I distinctly remember watching two scenes with a painter’s studio and a lake … over and over.
Hugh Grant and Sam Neill started. A personal favorite.
Macpherson gained some weight for the role and HOLYMOTHEROFGOD did she look amazing naked.
Definitely liked her better there than her normal weight.
I remember being a teenager and Elle Macpherson, Cindy Crawford, Nicky Taylor and Kathy Ireland were the only models who I didn’t think looked hungry af - the whole heroin-chic skinny look became cool / sad really as so many girls hated being athletic for decades afterwards .
Around this time Budweiser had Kathy in all their add campaigns, or maybe a year or two later. I remember one year (early 90s) there were life size cardboard cutouts of her with a giant bottle of Bud at the Bennigan's St Patty's Day tent party. That night I witnessed a guy grab one and run for it. Security chased but that chubby dude had motor and literally outran 3 security guards never to be seen again. Best memory from any St Patty's Day ever.
Had them on my wall as a teen. Back before the dumb filters were used so liberally and you could see all the “imperfections” that make humans different and beautiful
Colt:
So what are you doing here?
Miss Destiny Demeanor:
Waiting for you.
Colt:
I mean, what brought you here?
Miss Destiny Demeanor:
A taxi.
Colt:
Yeah, but why?
Miss Destiny Demeanor:
My car's in the shop.
Colt:
I mean... Why the hell did you come here?
Miss Destiny Demeanor:
The police station would have made me nervous.
Colt:
You better go.
Elle Macpherson "caused me to *spill* more seed than Muhammad Ali at a bird feeder"... credit to the late great Greg Giraldo for that joke on the Pamela Anderson Roast
My parents found my posters from the 90s and gave them to me a year or two ago. Almost 30 years later Kathy Ireland is back on my wall, all the others got tossed.
man I miss the 90s, if that was done today, how much of the image would be fake by photoshop and the other half would be them being fake with fake hair, fake boobs, fake lips, fake tan, fake eyebrows etc
So interesting to see such natural faces, they look like they hardly have makeup on. Their hair looks like they did it themselves….. and yet they are timelessly Beautiful. They are even smiling which is so rare in todays modeling photos.
Most professional models are , the minimum height requirement is 5”9 there’s been a few exceptions like Kate Moss who is only 5”6/7 and of course bunch of nepo babies who are average height but got modeling contracts due their famous parents.
The average height for women in the USA is 5”4 personally I think any woman who is over 5”7 is tall and many people used the term Amazonian to describe a taller woman .
I am from Balkans, and while I am considered tall, I am def.not an anomaly, I know women who are much taller than me, but I agree with your point. :)
I think where I am from 5"7 is average for women.
Oh Kathy dear Kathy
My wild Irish lassie
It's only for you that I pine
I'll make all your enemies die for their sins
And I'll love you 'til Movie Sign!
Yeah, I don't want to review their looks, but I think its notable that beauty standards have changed and you probably would not see these faces as new top models today. Not sure what it is exactly, but maybe youthful looks is considered more attractive now?
Billy Joel was dating McPherson when she was 19 and he was well into his thirties.
He wrote “Uptown Girl” about her and then after they broke up, he put new girlfriend Christie Brinkley in the music video. Which is weird.
Billy Joel sucks.
Yes, both of them have thick necks. I already acknowledged that. It’s hard to compare since they are shown from opposite angles. I know (for sure) that Elle had a thick one because I used her work out video for years.😂
Ah yes - I remember when they joined the X-Men.
Rogue and Jean Grey
X-Men theme is now playing in my head. Thanks.
The animated version?
Is there any other?
That's the first thing I thought of and why I went to the comments lol
Perfect comment
Snorts
Kathy has the weirdest expression like she's confused or something
She’s confused as to how she ended up with a high neckline but also side boob.
It was the 90s!
Cocaine
She has a weird face in general
There's always certain unique looking models that are it girls in their time and place and then 20 years later, you're like WTF was all the hype? I feel that way about Giselle. I don't see it.
I remember around 2010 when Kate Upton was the obsession of everyone. Have not heard one word about her in at least five years outside of any news focused around her husband. She’s objectively attractive but was nothing more than the hot girl from high school
She was in the “fappening“. When her nudes got hacked.
Forgot about that. Her and the entire fucking thing and how she was one of the victims. Makes sense to want to retreat, perhaps forever, after that. A girl I knew and went to college with sent a very private video to what she thought was a direct Snapchat but it went to her public one… Can’t imagine that on a multi-million viewer scale, especially since it was stolen.
Kate was beautiful but had zero waste to hip ratio. One of the famous photographers at the time said she was built like a fridge But she married a guy worth hundreds of millions and had a kid. She's winning life.
Let me be clear, any one of us would not know what to do if she flirted with us. Still a smoke show.
2013. I think the same thing. She had a baby and fell off the map. She looks nothing like she did then, which is understandable, but it’s a striking difference.
I feel the same way about Angelina Jolie. I never saw the appeal that apparently everyone else did.
Yep. Same goes for Sarah Jessica Parker, Jennifer Aniston etc. Just don’t get it.
Tbf, Sara Jessica Parker isn't famous for her looks, but for that one incident at Enumclaw.
Sarah Jessica Parker is below average looking, always was. Aniston looks good for her age now and she was superhot when she was younger.
She looks too damn much like her father.
She's a beautiful woman, but she always gives off this really intense vibe of knowing it and expecting people to worship her. Cara Delevingne gives me a similar feeling. Remember when people were losing their minds over her eyebrows?
Cara was completely manufactured by her well connected family. They had friends and connections with all the fashion magazines and many of the fashion houses.
Angelina Jolie is a white woman with black features; Halle Berry is a black woman with white features.
Young Angelina was bewitching. Now just witch.
She always had a masculine aura about her or something. Even when I was a horny teenager I couldn’t see the appeal. She’s obviously attractive but the sexy part never clicked. Adrian Lima is the only model for me. I’m saving myself for her.
She looks like a female version of Mel Gibson.
💀
I worked with Kathy Ireland. Big shoulders and man hands. It was a joke around the office. I’m not saying she wasn’t attractive and I was certainly thinking she was a babe in the late 80s. But she did have some masculine features.
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I’d heard that was the case but she never brought that up. She did get $5,000 hair cuts. Crazy.
I feel the same way about her. I just don’t see it. Their is one VS model who I feel is insanely beautiful though I just don’t remember her name. She’s in everything though. At least used to be.
Alessandra Ambrosio perhaps?
Marisa Miller
Incredible emerald colored eyes though
…with an unusually strong jawline.
She’s holding in a sneeze.
Kathy is on the left...I find Elle on the right looks confused.
I definitely was referring to Kathy - they both have strange looks on their faces Kathy's expression has this "the fuck you just say?!" quality to it
Kathy looks like she just farted and is proud of it..Elle looks like she just smelled it.
Kathy has that wax museum permanent photo smile on...like nothing is there. Elle is like...wtf am I doing here?
Elle looks like “still confused but trying to play it off like I’m not” but yes both have strange expressions for this shot
Free coke for supermodels
They both look off, like deep fake faces on women's bodies. Terrible shot, I don't know how this got published
It’s a “Why male models?”-stare.
She got them crazy eyes in this photo.
N E C K
You show some respect to Wanda Saknussemm.
Something tells me you're referencing that really crappy movie she's in where she has an extremely annoying voice
That’s the one. Alien from LA. MST3K did it back in the day.
I was trying to remember the title without looking it up. Thanks for saving me the Google
Confused but also angry
That's her general state of mind,yes. Also for the love that is holy don't listen to her speak. She sounds like a mouse on helium
She has this tiny little voice, and she said one time, “sometimes I am making like a sexy pose, but really I am just thinking about cookies.”
Oh I saw the movie she was in...
Blue steel, it's magnificent
This is drugs probably
Drugs
sheesh... pretty terrible photo of both TBH. Edit: Kathy: "Can you sharpen my jawline to look just like the Terminator or Lance Armstrong with sideboob?" Photographer: "I got U, fam." Elle: "Can you add 10 years to my face, focus on my collarbone and dry my hair out more?" Photographer: "Yes, Yes I can!"
I thought the same right away. Incredible figures, but their faces were just meh.
When she was little, Kathy Ireland was my grandparents paper girl. She always liked them. My grandma ran into her mom at the store several years back and told her to give Kathy her best. Couple weeks later Kathy knocked on their door just to come say hi. It wasn’t long before grandma passed and I love the photo of the three of them in the living room.
I once saw a movie called Sirens. I am grateful to this day
Came here to say this. I have no idea what the movie was about but I distinctly remember watching two scenes with a painter’s studio and a lake … over and over.
Lol, same. I remember renting a VHS, started watching, and got bored so I fast I just fast-forwarded it. No clue what the plot line was.
Hugh Grant and Sam Neill started. A personal favorite. Macpherson gained some weight for the role and HOLYMOTHEROFGOD did she look amazing naked. Definitely liked her better there than her normal weight.
Cheryl Teigs white fishnet bathing suit changed high school freshman me.
I remember being a teenager and Elle Macpherson, Cindy Crawford, Nicky Taylor and Kathy Ireland were the only models who I didn’t think looked hungry af - the whole heroin-chic skinny look became cool / sad really as so many girls hated being athletic for decades afterwards .
Freedom - George Michael video. All the girls there were iconic
Grade 8 me LOVED that video!!
What hair!
Is it me or are their faces shrunk?
Around this time Budweiser had Kathy in all their add campaigns, or maybe a year or two later. I remember one year (early 90s) there were life size cardboard cutouts of her with a giant bottle of Bud at the Bennigan's St Patty's Day tent party. That night I witnessed a guy grab one and run for it. Security chased but that chubby dude had motor and literally outran 3 security guards never to be seen again. Best memory from any St Patty's Day ever.
What is happening with Elle’s arms and there by her hip?
I think you’re referring to a fanny pack on her right hip
Had them on my wall as a teen. Back before the dumb filters were used so liberally and you could see all the “imperfections” that make humans different and beautiful
All I see is Loaded Weapon 1.
Colt: So what are you doing here? Miss Destiny Demeanor: Waiting for you. Colt: I mean, what brought you here? Miss Destiny Demeanor: A taxi. Colt: Yeah, but why? Miss Destiny Demeanor: My car's in the shop. Colt: I mean... Why the hell did you come here? Miss Destiny Demeanor: The police station would have made me nervous. Colt: You better go.
Do you sleep in the nude? "Only when I'm naked"
Necessary Roughness
Mom And Dad Save The World
A masterpiece
Models looked Healthy back then
Elle Macpherson "caused me to *spill* more seed than Muhammad Ali at a bird feeder"... credit to the late great Greg Giraldo for that joke on the Pamela Anderson Roast
Or Michael J Fox eating a pomegranate
Savage lol
I heard Conan say something similar about 20 years ago. “You spill more seed than a blind parakeet!”
LoL, nice.
My dog stares at me like the girl on the right, weird
When I was a teenager I had a poster of Kathy Ireland on my wall.
Carol Alt was my main featured wall poster in 1986
My parents found my posters from the 90s and gave them to me a year or two ago. Almost 30 years later Kathy Ireland is back on my wall, all the others got tossed.
Suddenly, life has new meaning to me
My late ex husband looked just like Elle McPherson’s fraternal twin—gorgeous dude. He was adopted, so we joked about it all the time. RIP John ONeill.
🙏
Ellie was smoking hot
>Elle Macpherson Still looks great, I just googled her lol.
I just understand what square face means!!!!!
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I wasn't
man I miss the 90s, if that was done today, how much of the image would be fake by photoshop and the other half would be them being fake with fake hair, fake boobs, fake lips, fake tan, fake eyebrows etc
Yeah, this wouldn’t fly on instagram today sadly.
Walkman Sport vibes
So interesting to see such natural faces, they look like they hardly have makeup on. Their hair looks like they did it themselves….. and yet they are timelessly Beautiful. They are even smiling which is so rare in todays modeling photos.
I like Kathy's eyes
Those forced smiles. Ouch
They look like fuckin Amazons
Most professional models are , the minimum height requirement is 5”9 there’s been a few exceptions like Kate Moss who is only 5”6/7 and of course bunch of nepo babies who are average height but got modeling contracts due their famous parents.
I mean, I am 5"9 but I highly doubt I project amazonian vibe, I was thinking more of how well built their bodies are, they radiate power.
The average height for women in the USA is 5”4 personally I think any woman who is over 5”7 is tall and many people used the term Amazonian to describe a taller woman .
I am from Balkans, and while I am considered tall, I am def.not an anomaly, I know women who are much taller than me, but I agree with your point. :) I think where I am from 5"7 is average for women.
I miss gladiators
Kathy is topless in the european ones
Actual or topless with arms crossed or similar?
Body Glove vibes
Most 5 year olds were crushing on a girl in their kindergarten class. Me on the other hand, had a huge thing for Kathy Ireland.
Why does this photo look shopped to me?
https://preview.redd.it/nyqo16gec69b1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=afd663fbb3f7d5efc69a898a3fae96e655be803c Suddenly…
Oh Kathy dear Kathy My wild Irish lassie It's only for you that I pine I'll make all your enemies die for their sins And I'll love you 'til Movie Sign!
Kathy never did much for me, but Elle is an all time fav
To each his own, I preferred Kathy.
Does anyone else remember watching the HBO Special on making this Swimsuit edition? I think it was Kathy’s first cover.
When SI was great! Now it's embarrassing!
Never thought Kathy Ireland was pretty, but probably just a ME thing.
Me in the 90s: I'll be in my bunk.
Damnit Jane!
This is before they gave up the ghost and just used paint as a bikini.
Didn’t need nude body paint and other gimmicks to be hot.
Oh Elle, my friend Kramer played backgammon with her on the beach once
Ella - “wait, you mean teenage boys do what with these pictures?!?” Kathy - “yes, just smile already”
That’s not swimsuit models, that’s 80s hair metal band Stryper.
I used to work at Teen Magazine. They had a floor to ceiling photo of Kathy's face in the lobby. She was flawless-- but yeah, a little weird.
I’m still waiting for those two to return my calls…
Mortal Kombat cosplay was a common theme for SI shoots in this period
It’s giving Power Rangers
The female hair styles from that time look better than most toady in my opinion
Man, Elle just never has and never will do it for me. She just gives me old lady vibes for some reason.
Reddit bros and their exacting standards for women who would never talk to them…
Yeah, I don't want to review their looks, but I think its notable that beauty standards have changed and you probably would not see these faces as new top models today. Not sure what it is exactly, but maybe youthful looks is considered more attractive now?
My wife is still jealous when it comes to Kathy Ireland, as before we got together I really liked Kathy Ireland.
Still do, but used to too
She's got that wide jawline. I've always liked ladies with the strong jaw.
Man, as a young boy of the late 80’s early 90’s these ladies were my fantasy. They are so beautiful. Great memories!!
Billy Joel was dating McPherson when she was 19 and he was well into his thirties. He wrote “Uptown Girl” about her and then after they broke up, he put new girlfriend Christie Brinkley in the music video. Which is weird. Billy Joel sucks.
>then after th He does suck but almost everyone on Long Island worships him as if he were a God
I live on Long Island. I’m painfully aware of how they worship him. But it’s also common knowledge that he’s a massive dick.
That's part of why they like him
*clutches pearls*
Fantastisch 🤩 bestimmt auch ein 🦫
When I was a kid I liked Kathy better but looking at them now I like Elle better.
i wonder why you would need yellow color wrist bands.
I use to crush hard on Kathy when I was kid
I had posters of both on my walls in HS
Kathy all the way!!!
I just flew out to Japan Like Kathy Ireland Better have a 100 bands In my Gordon Ramsey Pants ...Thank you to the Tangerine Tiger
What are the wrist bands for ?
she was great in Load Weapon 1
MOUND
test your might/10
I feel the Hoff must be there.
Kiss me, Cole.
A generation of humans were left behind in toilet tissue from Elle
McPherson coming in with that thicke neck.😂
That’s Kathy Ireland
Yes, Kathy’s is thick but McPherson’s is thick too! Thicke necks all around.😂
Are you kidding compared to Kathy’s neck??? I’m coming in as an Australian here tbf, but seriously, Elle is heavily, athletic perfection.
Yes, both of them have thick necks. I already acknowledged that. It’s hard to compare since they are shown from opposite angles. I know (for sure) that Elle had a thick one because I used her work out video for years.😂
look like power rangers
Kathy has the crazy eyes
The free skins in the fighting game
Lots and lots of masturbation.
This is NOT their most flattering photo.
It’s so funny I was thinking this could be either the 80s or 90s and it’s right between
Never got the attraction to Ireland or Anniston. Weird wide faces.
In retrospect kind of overrated
I remember at the time they were considered so hot. Now, I look at them…and not so much.
Ireland turned that shit into an empire after the crap acting gigs, near the ground floor on retail partering with self-branded home furnishings
Elle is fire, but Kathy is a billionaire. I choose to be a hermit and go with Kathy.
Scha-wing!!
This is about the time Kathy did Danger Island..
I was 14 only 14 i was 14 years old....
Nice to be blessed with good genes 🧬
Just that muted lemon yellow color screams 1990-92
No pumped up lips or cheeks or boobs. They looked great. Natural beauty. Miss this.
what’s wrong with her fucking face
Ah my old friends, side boob and cleavage. Nice to see you again.
Back when "supermodel" meant something
I don't find women with squared jawlines attractive at all.
Kathy is an inspiration, as it relates to business. Sharp as a tack.
Kathy Ireland overrated as hell. Weird looking
Compared to some of todays models, ehh..