Leyna Bloom Becomes First Transgender Woman Of Color To Cover ‘Sports Illustrated’ Swimsuit Issue
Leyna Bloom is the first transgender woman of color to cover the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. “When they told me I got the cover, I spoke to my dad,” she told Page Six Style. She said she found inspiration in 1997 when she saw Tyra Banks in a magazine laying on her father’s coffee table. “I was like, ‘When I was looking at that magazine … I was looking into my future. You were giving me the tools I needed to see myself, to know that I could be there, that I could inspire, that one day I could be a part of this.'” Banks was the magazine’s first solo black cover model. She celebrated when ...