C Kim K. and Elon’s mom grace SI’s cover
She’s putting the K in bikini. Kim Kardashian and her famous assets landed the cover of Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue.
The 41-year-old reality star was photographed in a nude twopiece from her SKIMS swimwear line released in March. Shot in the Dominican Republic by Greg Swales, Kardashian also sported skimpy motocross-inspired looks from Balenciaga, while sitting atop a motorcycle.
As is often the case with Kardashian, some questioned just how real her cover look is.
“If you zoom, you can see how perfectly straight this hairline is,” photo editor and photographer Gabriella Csapo told The Post, also noting that Kardashian’s nose appeared to have been digitally straightened. “Most people don’t look like that.”
Still sexy in her 70s
The magazine, which hits newstands Thursday, also features covers with silver-haired septuagenarian model Maye Musk, singer Ciara and plus-sized beauty Yumi Nu.
At 74, Musk, who is the mother of Tesla founder Elon Musk, is the oldest model to ever grace the pages of the bikini bible.
“It feels great,” Musk told The Post. “I’ve been modeling for 50 years, and I wasn’t considered a ‘swimsuit model,’ but now Sports Illustrated has let me know that they have a wide diversity of swimsuit models. I think it’s wonderful.”
She kept her three children, including Elon, in the dark about the shoot, joking that he would have tweeted about it.
“I wasn’t allowed to tell anyone. Nobody knew. I haven’t told my kids — I can’t tell anyone until Monday . . . [Elon] doesn’t even know I went to Belize.”
Another norms shattering cover star is plus-size Asian model, Yumi Nu, 25, who most recently became the first curve model to land the cover of Vogue Japan. The half Japanese, part Dutch beauty is the niece of DJ Steve Aoki and model Devon Aoki.
‘Big dream come true’
This is Nu’s second year posing for SI, and her agents surprised her with the cover after luring her to the office to interview her about her career.
“I was processing the surprise of it not being a real interview and that this was actually the SI cover reveal. I could not speak. I had full body chills. I was shaking, I was crying. They really got me good,” said Nu.
Rounding out the cover stars is Ciara, 36, who called it “a big dream come true for me.”
The “Level Up” singer, and wife of Denver Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson, wore a sexy leopard print one-piece by LaQuan Smith and was photographed by Ben Watts in Barbados.
The mother of three cited Tyra Banks’ cover as inspiration, telling the publication she’s “always dreamt of being on this cover, ever since I was really young.”