Kate Love Reveals How She Manifested Her SI Swimsuit Legends Cover

The 11-time brand star is a big believer in vision boards.

Cara O’Bleness | Jul 25, 2024

Kate Love was photographed by Yu Tsai in Hollywood, Fla. / Yu Tsai/Sports Illustrated

An SI Swimsuit legend, Kate Love first posed for the brand in 2013, when her photo shoot on Easter Island, Chile earned her Rookie of the Year honors. Over the years, the 36-year-old model and mom of one has been featured in 11 different SI Swimsuit Issues, including a cover feature in 2020, following her photo shoot in Bali.

Though Love took a year away from the brand in 2023, when she and her husband, Miami Heat player Kevin Love, welcomed their daughter, she returned to the fold this year in the 60th anniversary SI Swimsuit Issue, when she was named a brand legend.

Kate Love was photographed by Yu Tsai in Hollywood, Fla. Dress by Donna Karan New York. Shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. Jewelry by Melinda Maria and Charlie Lapson. / Yu Tsai/Sports Illustrated

And in a new cover story for Haute Living luxury magazine, Love shared how she manifested her group cover feature on the front of this year’s 2024 SI Swimsuit Issue following her photo shoot in Hollywood, Fla.

“I skipped the year I was pregnant because I really wasn’t feeling well, but by the time she was nine months old, I decided to shoot again because I was finally feeling like myself; my clothes were finally fitting the way I feel most comfortable. I felt good,” she explained to the outlet of getting back to business after becoming a mom. “[And during this shoot] I did what I always do: take my favorite screen grabs, do a little Canva edit, and draw it as if it were a cover. I’d be like, Oh my god, imagine if this was a cover? Imagine if this happened? And then it did.”

Hunter McGrady, Tyra Banks, Lily Aldridge, Kate Upton, Danielle Herrington, Molly Sims, Roshumba Williams, Hailey Clauson, Paige Spiranac, Kate Love, Brooks Nader, Winnie Harlow, Camille Kostek, Brenna Huckaby, Halima Aden, Martha Stewart, Christie Brinkley, Gayle King, Nina Agdal, Sue Bird, Maye Musk, Leyna Bloom, Chrissy Teigen, Brooklyn Decker, Megan Rapinoe, Paulina Porizkova and Jasmine Sanders. / Yu Tsai/Sports Illustrated

Love, who also referred to herself as “a big dreamer” in the feature, is proof that you can manifest your biggest goals into reality with hard work.

Published Jul 25, 2024

CARA O’BLENESS

Cara O’Bleness is a writer and editor on the Lifestyle and Trending News team for SI Swimsuit. Prior to joining SI Swimsuit in 2022, she worked as a writer and editor across a number of content verticals, including food, lifestyle, health and wellness, and small business and entrepreneurship. In her free time, O’Bleness loves reading, spending time with her family and making her way through Michigan’s many microbreweries. She is a graduate of Michigan State University’s School of Journalism.