When Danica Patrick won the 2008 Indy Japan 300 series, she surprised the entire racing community. After her win, top brands persuaded her to join their teams and this helped her increase her net worth. With the 2008 IndyCar series win, Danica Patrick also received an offer from the award-winning magazine, Sports Illustrated. Patrick got an opportunity to feature in SI’s Swimsuit Issue in 2008 and 2009 along with other models and athletes.
Danica Patrick featured with other models in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and became an icon. Patrick’s image was featured on the top right of the cover. In one of her interviews with SI, Patrick revealed she had fun posing with other models and also wished she was their model for the upcoming years. Here is what Danica Patrick said about her modelling career experience with Sports Illustrated in 2015,
“You could actually say I was on the cover. I had a little image in the top right corner of the cover. I think Bar Refaeli was the cover girl that year. I had so much fun. It was a great experience and I loved it completely. Like, I wish I was a swimsuit model because it was really fun”
Danica Patrick Modelling Career & SI Swimsuit Issue
Danica Patrick never wanted to become a model, but her successful stint in racing caught the eyes of popular magazines including the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit. Danica Patrick was a pop culture icon even as a rookie and she featured as a cover model on FHM magazine’s Miss March in the 2004 edition.
Danica Patrick appeared twice in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit magazine in 2008 and 2009. In 2008, Patrick’s images were captured by Ben Watts. Patrick sported a white outfit and it was set in Singer Island, Florida. The 2008 SI swimsuit magazine featured Patrick in four pages. Patrick was again one of the models of SI Swimsuit Issue in 2009 and she went to New York City for the photoshoot.
In 2009, Patrick was the only athlete to feature on the cover of SI Swimsuit. Danica Patrick is one among popular athletes to feature in their magazine. After appearing on their cover, Danica Patrick revealed she would like to become a full-time model. Popular tennis players including Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Maria Kirilenko, and Caroline Wozniacki have featured as well. Danica Patrick’s modelling career began in 2004 with the FHM. In 2008, her fame reached the next level with the SI Swimsuit publication.
Patrick also featured in ESPN: The Magazine in 2005. In 2006, the American weekly magazine “People” ranked Danica Patrick as one of the most beautiful women. She was also named as by the Time Magazine as one of the candidates for the 100 most influential people in the world in 2009 and 2010. In 2025, she joined the Fox Sports Broadcast team as an analyst for the Indy 500 series.
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