Where Are They Now? Hannah Jeter

The former SI Swimsuit cover model has been focused on her family in recent years.

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SI Swimsuit model Hannah Jeter, who starred on the cover of the 2015 issue, was born on May 5, 1990 in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. She and her two older siblings grew up on the Caribbean Island and she moved to New York City upon high school graduation in 2008.

Prior to modeling, the former Victoria’s Secret model grew up playing tennis and became a champion on the Caribbean National tennis team and playing in the Caribbean tennis circuit.

“I’d grown up really fast. I started working as a model when I was 14, and traveled the world and built a career for myself. A life like that—going from job to job around the globe, and especially in my industry—kind of forces you into adulthood,” Jeter wrote in an essay of her early childhood.

Today, the 34-year-old, who served a short stint as a TV host, is married to former pro baseball player Derek Jeter, with whom she shares four kids.

Below, we’re answering your burning questions regarding Jeter’s career and her current focus on her family.

Hannah Jeter SI Swimsuit

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Jeter posed for the magazine five years in a row and never ceased to amaze. She made her debut in 2013, traveling to Guilin, China with Derek Kettela. For her next photo shoot, she soaked up some sun on the Jersey Shore and was captured by Ben Watts.

Jeter landed the cover in ’15, when she proved her impeccable skills and starred in a Western-inspired photo shoot in Tennessee. She posed on the breathtaking beaches of Tahiti with Yu Tsai in 2016, and, most recently, traveled to Mexico in 2017, working with photographer Ruven Afanador.

“Every year I will call my agent months before they book and will be like, ‘Do you think they will bring me back? Are you sure?’ And they’re like, ‘Yeah, Hannah. They will bring you back.’ It’s been the pinnacle of my career, so every year they ask me back I feel so lucky,” she gushed in ’17 of working with SI Swimsuit. “The first year, I was so nervous. Especially surrounding launch week, you just have so much anxiety because it really is a responsibility to promote the issue. I think for me, I get more and more comfortable and it becomes easier. It’s so fun and I’ve gotten used to it.”

Hannah Jeter’s career

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Jeter has graced the covers of numerous magazines in addition to the SI Swimsuit Issue. In 2006, she starred on two individual covers for the Italian magazine D, and in 2009, posed for the front of Elle.

Though she largely lays low today, before stepping out of the spotlight, the model took on a TV gig, serving as the host of Project Runway: Junior from 2015 until ’17.

Jeter was the face of Ralph Lauren fragrance, Ralph Rocks, for a few years, and also was a campaign staple for American Eagle, Tommy Hilfiger and Levi’s.

Hannah Jeter family life

The model and Jeter, a retired MLB shortstop, met through a mutual friend in 2012 and were spotted together in public later that year. Despite the athlete being super famous and around the peak of his career, she had no idea who he was at the time.

“I didn’t need much more to go on than this: I had met the nicest guy and I wanted to get to know him on my own terms. Not Google’s,” she said. “We met at the right time. To me, what matters in a relationship is being at the same place in your lives. And right from the start, I could tell that the timing of Derek’s life and mine were aligned.”

In November 2015, Derek confirmed that he and Hannah had gotten engaged, and she was spotted with an engagement ring. The two officially tied the knot in July 2016, with a beautiful, intimate ceremony at the Meadowood Napa Valley resort in St. Helena, Calif. Hannah wore a stunning Vera Wang gown and the couple said “I do” in front of their closest friends and family. She changed her Instagram handle from @hannahdavis to @hannahjeter soon after.

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The model and the Hall of Famer announced in a Player’s Tribune post in February 2017 that they were expecting their first daughter, Bella Raine, who arrived in August. The two welcomed baby No. 2, Story Grey, in January 2019, and their third daughter, River Rose, in December 2021. Hannah and Derek announced the birth of their fourth child, baby boy Kaius Green, in May 2023.

The family of six all live in Miami, where Derek served as the CEO of the Miami Marlins from September 2017 to February 2022.

“We need a lot of room [for road trips]. We need a big trunk. We need a good sound system, as Derek would say, to drown out the noise. You need a lot of snacks,” Hannah said of traveling around with her large family. “We started having kids right after we got married, so, [we] just continue to make time for each other, take trips. There’s a lot going on, day-to-day, in our household—a lot of noise, a lot of kids—and that can be really overwhelming. So it’s nice once in awhile, date night—just the simple things.”