Last month we pointed out that Olympic swimmer Amanda Beard is posing in Playboy. Now SI's Extra Mustard has noted that the cover of Playboy's July issue (which hits newsstands Friday, June 8) features Beard, topless but using a well-placed forearm to keep things safe for work.Beard, who won three medals in the 1996 Olympics at the age of 14, has previously appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and in FHM, but next month's Playboy is her first appearance in the nude.
This will no doubt raise questions about whether Beard is demeaning herself or demeaning women's sports, but I don't really get that. Beard has a positive public image, and as BloggingStocks has noted, featuring women like Beard is a part of Playboy's business model. Athletes male and female have hot bodies, and athletes male and female use those hot bodies to make money and sell products. Good for them.
UPDATE: Watch Amanda Beard talk about Playboy with David Letterman.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 10)
6-05-2007 @ 11:54AM
ray said...
yay. another broad stripping for cash. that's just what the world needs.
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6-05-2007 @ 12:19PM
jon said...
I am sorry but that is an ugly woman..Come on playboy get some hotter women...no wonder subs are in the toliet
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6-05-2007 @ 12:29PM
carl said...
Put a flag over her face and say you did it for your country
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6-05-2007 @ 2:58PM
Medycman said...
I have no idea what those other crackheads are thinking. A brunette with blue eyes and an awesome body to boot? Can we say J-E-A-L-O-U-S-Y? Amanda, I would truly like to have the honor of hitting it anytime your in town, your are smokin!!!!
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6-05-2007 @ 3:12PM
acsports said...
They'll airbrush the hell out of her and make her look really hot.
Playboy just wants to use her name. Photoshop can make anyone pretty.
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6-05-2007 @ 3:54PM
hykedoe said...
I haven't seen her pictures and i don't plan on seeing her pictures.
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6-05-2007 @ 4:41PM
irv said...
I don't know about you guys, but I think she's GORGEOUS. LOOK AT THAT BODY AND SMILE.
Seems you guys are into beastly-looking women if you don't think Amanda Beard is great looking.
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6-05-2007 @ 5:06PM
SportSnipe.com said...
She worked hard for that body!! Might as well show it off! nothing to be ashamed with...im sure she is going to look good though, playboy will do a good job...although her face looks sorta dark and manly in that SI pic...
http://www.sportsnipe.com
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6-05-2007 @ 5:48PM
Livin' Large said...
Nice, Amanda. You are beautiful ... there are some people out there who are blind. Others think that a smart-ass remark is the thing to say. Grow up, I don't see you on the cover. Make that $$$$$ Amanda!!!
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6-05-2007 @ 5:59PM
LivinLargeXX said...
Maybe I should say ... I don't see your FINE ladies on the cover.
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6-05-2007 @ 6:47PM
Da Leader said...
White women will do anything, ooops did i say that? See what had happen was........
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6-05-2007 @ 6:46PM
Caroline said...
What-she didn't make enough money already between product endorsements and the SI swimsuit issue? Amanda Beard is just perpetuating the woman as sex object stereotype,and, as a woman, I certainly do not think this is a good thing. How about trying to use your mind? Bodies come and go.
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6-05-2007 @ 7:10PM
Samantha said...
She can look cute at times...this isn't one of them. What an unfortunate picture for her cover.
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6-05-2007 @ 8:18PM
Ray Arvizu said...
AMANDA BEARD IS A HOTTIE, AND SHE CAN SMOKE SOME OF YOU LOSERS ARE THERE! WHASDAMATTER WITH YOU?!? I AM BUYING THIS ISSUE, IT'S WORTH IT LIKE PAMELA & SABLE.
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6-05-2007 @ 8:30PM
Lakergregg said...
She's got a damn fine body no doubt about it.
But the one thing I've always thought about her is ...she looks like a Kennedy dude.
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6-05-2007 @ 8:49PM
buckwheat said...
SHE HAS A SORT OF FRANKENSTINIAN THING GOING!!! BUT I'D STILL HIT THEM HARD THEN HIEBERNATE FOO.
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6-05-2007 @ 9:44PM
Eddie said...
Anybody can show their tit's that's not art, what a pig!
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6-05-2007 @ 9:54PM
jim rossi said...
what a shameful side of America. very sad.
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6-05-2007 @ 10:00PM
hykedoe said...
whats the name of the girl who comes out of the volleyball in the gatorade commercial?
shes fine.
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6-05-2007 @ 10:01PM
lesleybskt said...
What a poor expample for our young girls in the sport or swimming who look up to her as a shinning example of what the can aspire too -
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