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Top 10 Celebrities with Finest and Fittest Physique 2013
8) Kate Upton
Katherine
"Kate" Upton was born on 10th June 1992. She is an American model and actress,
known for her appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Upton was
named Rookie of the Year following her first SI appearance in 2011 and was the
cover model for the 2012 and 2013 issues. She was also the subject of the 100th
Anniversary Vanity Fair cover.
Katherine Upton was born in St. Joseph, Michigan, and raised in Melbourne,
Florida. She is the daughter of the former Texas state tennis champion, Shelley
Upton, and high school athletics director Jeff Upton. She attended Holy Trinity
Episcopal Academy. Her uncle is U.S. Representative Fred Upton (R-MI). Upton's
great-grandfather, Frederick Upton, was co-founder of appliance manufacturer and
marketer Whirlpool Corporation.
As a young equestrian, Upton showed at the American Paint Horse Association and
competed at a national level. With her horse Roanie Pony, 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, Zipped, 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 by them the same day, and 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 that
issue. She has since modeled for Beach Bunny Swimwear, and has appeared in
Complex and Esquire as "The Woman of the Summer".
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
Trebay 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. As of that month, her Twitter account had a following
of 170,000 people. Upton has also recounted the negative aftereffects of the
2012 Sports Illustrated cover, saying, "I felt terrible about myself for a solid
month. Every single guy I met was either married or about to be married, and I
felt like I was their bachelor present or something."
Upton has appeared on the covers of Vogue Italia, British Vogue, CR Fashion
Book, Cosmopolitan, French ELLE, GQ, Italian GQ, German GQ, Jalouse, Sunday
Times Style, Esquire, The Daily, and Muse Magazine. In 2012, she was ranked the
fifth sexiest model by MODELS's. 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 was named Model of the Year at the 10th Style Awards at the
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York. Upton has expressed that her belief in
God is important to her. During a photo shoot, someone joked about a cross
necklace she wore, "Why are you wearing a cross? Like you would be religious,"
then took the necklace from her to do the shoot. Upton stated about the
incident: "I was really affected by that. The whole thing made me realize that I
do want a cross with me, at all times." As a result, Upton had a cross tattooed
on the inside of her finger.
Films she acted
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2011 Tower Heist
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2012 The Three Stooges
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2014 The Other Woman
Television series she appeared
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2011 Tosh.0
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2012 Sports Illustrated: The Making of Swimsuit 2012
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2012 Saturday Night Live
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2012 Fox & Friends
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2012 GTTV Presents MLB 2K12: The Perfect Club
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Dated 25 December 2013
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