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15 Dazzling Photos of Cover Star Camille Kostek in St. Croix

The SI Swimsuit model makes her sixth appearance in the magazine this May.

Ananya Panchal

Camille Kostek was photographed by Derek Kettela in St. Croix.

Camille Kostek was photographed by Derek Kettela in St. Croix.

This spring, Camille Kostek will return for her sixth year posing for SI Swimsuit. The Connecticut native made her debut in 2018 and was one of two winners of the first-ever Swim Search open casting call. Kostek landed her first cover the following year after being photographed by Josie Clough in Kangaroo Island, Australia.

The model has designed her own accessories line with Dune Jewelry and created numerous bikini collections with Swimsuits for All. Kostek, who has been dating former NFL star Rob Gronkowski for almost a decade, is also the host of NBC’s Dancing With Myself and TBS’s Wipeout. 

The former New England Patriots cheerleader is the queen of #NeverNotDancing and uses her growing platform to advocate for body positivity. She often shares advice on Instagram and TikTok about being bold, confident and going for what you want.

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“It’s going to sound really cliché … I just believed in myself,” Kostek said about her modeling success and booking her first SI Swimsuit photo shoot without an agent. “If you don’t truly to your core believe that it is what you want to do … everything is energy. [Ask yourself] what is the purpose behind it? My why is I want to do it all. My why is when I looked at the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit magazine when I was 15 years old. When I see these women on the pages, it did something for me like, ‘Oh, they’re raw, and they’re real.’ It was the first time that I saw hips and thighs in a magazine. Then I saw freckles. I didn’t see all the Photoshop and everything has to be just so and just right and high and tight. It was real to me, and that spoke to me at such a young age.”

Here’s a look back at Kostek’s 2022 photo shoot in St. Croix with photographer Derek Kettela.

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Ananya Panchal
ANANYA PANCHAL

Ananya Panchal is a writer on the Lifestyle and Trending News team for SI Swimsuit. Before joining SI Swimsuit in 2022, she worked at Bustle, the San Francisco Chronicle and the TODAY Show. When she is not writing or doom-scrolling on social media, Panchal can be found playing sudoku, rewatching One Tree Hill or trying new restaurants. She's also a coffee and chocolate (separately) enthusiast. Panchal has a bachelor’s in communications and journalism from Boston University.

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