![]() ![]() ![]() “Every woman that represents a ‘first’ does so with the understanding that with the accolades and support that accompanies that title, scrutiny and negativity also follows,” Day told Harper’s Bazaar. MJ Day, editor-in-chief of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, applauded Sampaio’s courage. “To come from a space of fear and marginalization, to now being included in one of the most iconic magazines that truly embraces and celebrates diversity - it is life changing,” Sampaio told Harper’s Bazaar. Sampaio will appear in the edition that hits newstands on July 21. Halima Aden was the first model to wear a hijab in the magazine’s 2019 edition. ![]() Ashley Graham was the first plus-size model to appear on the cover in 2016. Tyra Banks became the first Black model to appear on the magazine’s cover in 1997. The first Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue was published in 1964. Thank you for supporting me in continuing to spread a message of love, compassion and unity for all.” For understanding that more than anything, I am human. “Thank you SI for seeing and respecting me as I truly am. Our options for growing up in a loving and accepting family, having a fruitful experience at school or finding dignified work are unimaginably limited and challenging,” she wrote in a blog post. We face snickers, insults, fearful reactions and physical violations just for existing. “Being trans usually means facing closed doors to peoples’ hearts and minds. □□□❤️□Ī post shared by Valentina Sampaio on at 5:44am PDT Our options for growing up in a loving and accepting family, having a fruitful experience at school or finding dignified work are unimaginably limited and challenging. Being trans usually means facing closed doors to peoples’ hearts and minds. Brazil is a beautiful country, but it also hosts the highest number of violent crimes and murders against the trans community in the world-three times that of the U.S. I was born trans in a remote, humble fishing village in northern Brazil. ![]() The team at SI has created yet another groundbreaking issue by bringing together a diverse set of multitalented, beautiful women in a creative and dignified way. She is an advocate for transgender equality and awareness she has fought against her home country’s discrimination of transgender people.I am excited and honored to be part of the iconic Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. In 2020, Sampaio became the first transgender model to appear in Sports Illustrated. Her agent confirmed that VS PINK had hired Sampaio for a catalog photo shoot to be released sometime in August 2019. On August 2, 2019, Sampaio indicated her association with Victoria’s Secret PINK on her Instagram account, making her the first openly transgender Victoria’s Secret model. She is now signed with New York modeling agency The Lions. She has also worked with brands such as Dior, H&M, Marc Jacobs, Moschino, L’Oréal, and Philipp Plein. Other magazine cover appearances of Sampaio’s include Vanity Fair Italia, Elle Mexico, and L’Officiel Turkiye. She is the first openly transgender woman to be featured on both magazines’ covers as well. Later that year, she also appeared on the covers of Vogue Brasil and Vogue Germany. In February 2017, Sampaio received international media attention after appearing on the cover of Vogue Paris and becoming the first transgender model to appear on the magazine’s cover. She is a L’Oréal Paris spokeswoman along with several other Brazilian women including: Grazi Massafera, Taís Araújo, Juliana Paes, Isabeli Fontana, Emanuela de Paula, Ágatha Moreira, and Sophia Abrahão. Soon after, L’Oréal made a short film about Sampaio, which they released on International Women’s Day, and later the company made her one of the company’s brand ambassadors. In November 2016, she first walked her first runway at São Paulo Fashion Week. In 2014, a clothing company fired Sampaio from her first modeling job because of her transgender identification.Īlthough she was supposed to be in one of their ad campaigns, the company – which she has not disclosed – told her that the brand was conservative and its clients would not be receptive to a transgender model.ĭespite this hurdle at the very beginning of her career, she left her home state of Ceará for the first time to act in an independent film in Rio de Janeiro that later debuted at São Paulo Fashion Week. It was there that a makeup artist discovered her and signed her with a São Paulo modeling agency. Sampaio initially studied architecture in Fortaleza, but she dropped out at 16 to study fashion. ![]()
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