Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2011 cover model is Irina Shayk

 

The cover of the Sports Illustrated 2011 Swimsuit edition was revealed Monday night on "Late Night With David Letterman" -- and the star of this year's mag is one Irina Shayk.

Letterman's list, the "Top 10 Good Things About Appearing in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition," was delivered by 10 models featured in the sports mag's annual skin fest -- and Shayk caught our attention early with her Boris-and-Natasha delivery of No. 6: "When police officer ask me for ID, I say, 'Check Page 47.' "

Moments later, the 25-year-old model seemed a bit shy and surprised as her bodacious, swimsuit-clad body was revealed to all on a massive billboard at the corner of Broadway and 52nd Street in New York. She follows in the bikini strings of last year's cover girl, Brooklyn Decker. And yes, she found out during the taping that she got the cover.

Some more of our fave lines from the list:

Genevieve Morton: "All the body paint I can eat."

Julie Henderson: "Appearing on popular television shows ... and this one."

Alyssa Miller: "On tax form under occupation, I can write 'Hot.' "

There was also a Charlie Sheen joke in there, but please, Dave, these ladies are models, not, um, "actresses."

If your employer is cool with you peeping at scantily clad ladies during work hours, follow this link to pics of the lovely Ms. Shayk. We clicked to No. 16 before getting a little booty shot, so use your own judgment. And no, you can't have this job.

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-- Christie D'Zurilla

Photo: The cover of the Sports Illustrated 2011 Swimsuit edition featuring Irina Shayk. Credit: Bjorn Iooss / Sports Illustrated

Comments

[tahoegeminii]

well at least it's not GQ pushing another jennifer Aniston cover where everyone has to pretend she is sexy-at least SI picks hot girls to exploit on their covers-and not old average posers with pushy agents

[Jack King]

YAWN. When will they man up and start showing actual topless models -- or more? No one buys that issue to see the "swimsuits" anyway. We want to see the girls -- and as MUCH of them as possible. At least show some bare butts.

Look, printed mags are going the way of the dinosaur so you guys better start coming up with better reasons to pick up that issue -- before it's too late.

[curt]

she is the perfect girl next door,especially if that door is in malibu

[ke]

Fake boobs, fake lips, she's no Brooklyn Decker.

[Nite Owl]

Remember that brief period in the 60's and 70's when women wanted to be taken seriously and not just as meat. Wow! That sure didn't last long did it?

[K]

Eh, she's not all that. Who picks the cover models anyway?

[SEAN]

She is Gods gift to man. What real man would not want her. Brooklyn Decker. YAWN. She is boring. too bright. much bleach. FAKE nose, fake breast as her husband said. She is a Gorgeous brunette. With eyes and hair, like like NO blonde can compete. She is REALLy gorgeous not just bright augmented, like MOst blondes in Sweden, in California, in ORange county, in Los Angeles they look like well done best plastic surgeried fakes.
THis girl has all the Real beauty I know my girl pals wished they could look like. Blondes have been placed by the media to sell hair dyes. They need and want attention desperately. AND yes, the most gorgeous brunettes in the world you will NOT see them with well done nose jobs walking around. THe real God Given beauties are reserved and conservative or most of the time at least. SHe is one of them.

[SEAN]

SHE HAS GOD GIVEN BEAUTY. MOST BLONDES CANNOT DREAM OF . SHE IS A MAN DREAM COM TRUE. A REAL MANS DREAM