Viral Visual: Kate Upton in Zero Gravity
The winners over at Sports Illustrated came up with the ridiculous idea to take Kate Upton on a parabolic flight.
Because… science?
Maybe to test out a theory about floating globes?
Here she is upside down:
And sideways:
And backwards:
And if that wasn’t gratuitous enough, there’s even a video:
Which, of course, the interwebz has already GIF’d:
We’re not gonna lie, Kate’s a stunner, but we think SI would have really stunned with a shoot like this featuring a fuller-figured model or maybe even just a normal person off the street. How’s that for provocative and pushing boundaries?
WE SAID THIS: Check out Hadeer Hameed’s article on “Questioning the Plus Size“.