Sports Illustrated Swimsuit has announced that Olympian rugby player and body positivity advocate Ilona Maher is the new cover model for September 2024. 'Sports Illustrated Swimsuit' Names ...

The Olympic rugby player wore the same Bond-Eye set white on location of her SI Swimsuit cover shoot last September.

Ilona Maher/Instagram Once the swelling and bruising ... bashfully tucking her hair behind her ears. “What? I am a model. Thank you so much. Oh, you’ve already fallen in love?

Rugby star Ilona Maher is laughing through the pain ... It'll pass.” Jokes aside, Maher is a model, having appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit's digital issue last August.