Watch Paige VanZant Melt Social Media in Bikini-Baring Instagram Post

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Leave it to SI Swimsuit model Paige VanZant to turn her backyard into a catwalk. In her Instagram post, the 2019 SI Swimsuit model and retired UFC fighter steps purposefully through a sliding glass door in a black string bikini paired with an open, gauzy sheer cover-up.

“Just walking around,” she cheekily captioned the video.

As usual, commenters went wild. “You look very beautiful and stunning in your bikini,” one user posted. “Simply breathtaking and heart-stopping,” wrote another.

VanZant is used to turning heads. The camera fell in love with the Dundee, Oregon native during her 2019 SI Swim photo shoot in Puerto Vallarta, where photographer Walter Chin captured a tan, muscular Vanzant on the beach.

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VanZant’s athletic form comes from years of professional MMA fighting and bare-knuckled boxing. Still in her prime, she opted to leave the sport in 2020, stating frankly she was making more from OnlyFans.

“I’m selling my body to the UFC, I am literally—I sold my body to the UFC,” she reasoned on her podcast, A Kick Ass Love Story she hosts with husband Austin Vanderford, also a professional fighter. “I got broken bones, my face cut up, I got injured, probably concussions, a broken nose, my arm broken four times. I tore my shoulder, XY and Z, isn’t that the same thing?”

Recently, however, she did tease a potential return to the ring.

“You know what I kind of want to do? I want to fight again in 2024,” she revealed on the podcast. “I also want to do more commentating. I want to do that combat karate. I love that. Maybe we’ll see me do that.”

Until then, it seems VanZant is content to win social media.