Nude celebrities on magazine covers in 2021

A host of beautiful female celebrities stripped bare for magazine covers in 2021. The common practice sells magazines and generates publicity for the stars.
Supermodel Paulina Porizkova, 56, posed nude or practically nude on two magazine covers.
She wore a revealing, sheer black bodysuit for the May cover of Vogue Czechoslovakia. (See articles by Page Six, Fox News, Us, the Daily Mail, CNN, and People.)
Porizkova followed that by appearing naked on the September cover of Los Angeles magazine. (See articles by Los Angeles magazine, Page Six, and the Daily Mail.)

Fellow supermodel Naomi Campbell, 50, posed topless for the spring issue of i-D magazine. (See articles by Page Six, the Independent, and People.)

Pop star Miley Cyrus went topless for the cover of Interview magazine’s fall issue. (See articles by Interview and InStyle.)

Rapper Cardi B covered her privates with her hands on the March issue of Interview. (See article by Interview.)

English model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley posed naked for the April cover of the U.K. edition of Elle magazine. (See articles by Elle and Cosmopolitan.)

Actress Elsa Pataky posed topless for the June cover of Elle Spain. (See articles by the Daily Mail and Nine.com.au.)

Two-time ski-jumping world champion Juliane Seyfarth posed naked for the cover of the March edition of Playboy Germany. (See articles by Yardbarker, News.com.au, and the U.S. Sun.)

Actress Megan Fox stripped naked and held a gun to her boyfriend’s crotch for the Autumn/Winter 2021 issue of British GQ Style. (See articles by the Daily Mail, the U.S. Sun, and the Mirror.)

Model Kaia Gerber posed topless for the cover of M Magazine’s November issue. She covered her bare breasts with one arm. (See article by the Daily Mail.)

That’s just magazine covers. Other celebrities posing in their birthday suits for magazine pictorials included Ayesha Curry (spring issue of Sweet July), Lady Gaga (December issue of British Vogue) and Doja Cat (January 2022 issue of Rolling Stone).

Naked celebrities on magazine covers in 2020

There’s nothing like a naked celebrity on a magazine cover to grab people’s attention.
This year, a plethora of models, actresses and singers flashed some skin for art and to sell magazines.
Model Kaia Gerber, 19, wore only thigh-high boots for the September cover of Vogue Japan. (See articles by Us and DesignTaxi.)
Actress Zoe Kravitz wore only a seashell necklace for the February cover of Elle magazine. (See article by Inquisitr.)
Singer and actress Lady Gaga posed naked to portray a cyborg for the spring 2020 cover of Paper magazine. (See articles by Page Six, the Sun, Huffington Post and Paper.)
Brazilian actress Claudia Raia stripped naked for the February cover of GQ Portugal.
Model Irina Shayk posed nude for the November cover of Vogue CS, the Czechoslovakian edition of the high-fashion magazine. She covered her modesty with two decorative tiles. (See article by the Daily Mail.)
Model Rachel Cook posed topless for WTVR magazine, though her nipples were censored.
Actress Chloe Sevigny scored two magazine covers where she posed naked while about nine-months pregnant. They included the May cover of The Cut and the relaunch of Playgirl magazine. (See articles by the Daily Mail and People.)
Quite a few models and celebrities covered their bare breasts with their hands for magazine covers this year.
Model Kendall Jenner posed topless, cupping her breasts, and looking like a hunting trophy for the cover of Garage magazine. (See articles by CNN, Hyperbae, Artnews and Maxim.) She also was topless on the cover of Chaos SixtyNine’s Chanel issue. (See article by the Daily Mail.)
Singer Miley Cyrus went shirtless for the January 2021 cover of Rolling Stone magazine. (See articles by the Daily Mail and Harper’s Bazaar.)
Singer Tinashe went topless for Ladygunn magazine. (See article by Inquisitr.)
Model Natalie Roser posed topless for the cover of digital magazine The Series. (See article by Inquisitr.)
Model Abigail Ratchford covered her bare breasts on the fall 2020 cover of Ellements magazine. (See article by Inquisitr.)
And finally, model and activist Anja Rubik posed naked for the December cover of Vogue Poland.

Celebrities as honorary tech executives making a comeback

Several years ago, there was a short-lived trend toward tech companies giving celebrity spokespeople executive titles. It was derided as a marketing ploy and eventually died off. But now it’s back.
At CES 2018, Chinese electronics firm Huawei (pronounced wow-way) announced that actress Gal Gadot is its “chief experience officer.”
“In this new role, Ms. Gadot will help shape the company’s brand experiences and play an active role in listening to and providing ongoing ideas to inform how Huawei will bring the best experiences to its consumers,” Huawei said in a press release. What a bunch of mumbo jumbo.
TechCrunch summed it up well in its coverage of the announcement.
“These sorts of titles are often little more than ceremonial, of course, and Gadot’s involvement with the company could ultimately amount to simply appearing in ads and posting her Huawei-related experiences on social media,” TechCrunch writer Brian Heater said.
Gadot earlier this month was also named global ambassador for Revlon’s Live Boldly campaign.
Her appointment at Huawei follows several other celebrities getting roles at tech companies in recent months.
In October, British music tech startup Roli named producer, songwriter and performer Pharrell Williams as its chief creative officer. Williams also will invest and become a co-owner of Roli, Business Insider reported.
In November, Verizon’s Oath, the company formed from AOL and Yahoo, announced a board of advisers filled with famous athletes and models.
Professional tennis player Serena Williams is chairing the board. Other board members include Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, singer Ciara, rapper Chuck D and supermodel Karlie Kloss, according to Fierce Cable.
Last year, Wired published an article on the last wave of celebrities as tech executives. (See “The Brief, Bumbling Tech Careers of Alicia Keys, Lady Gaga, and Gwen Stefani.”)
In 2013, mobile phone maker BlackBerry named singer Alicia Keys its global creative officer.
“The move was part of a short-lived trend in which legacy tech businesses struggling for reputational bling named celebrities as creative directors,” Wired writer Jessi Hempel noted. “In 2005, HP brought Gwen Stefani on as a creative director. In 2010, Lady Gaga landed the job of creative director at Polaroid. In 2011, Will.i.am was the director of creative innovation at Intel. In 2012, Microsoft brought on Jessica Alba as creative director to promote its Windows Phone 8. These roles were all touted as far more involved than the mere celebrity pitchman. The artists promised, to varying degrees, to dive into the business.”
None of those business arrangements amounted to more than advertising and marketing deals.
The same is likely true for the current bunch of celebrity tech executives.

Photos: Actress Gal Gadot pitching Huawei smartphones.

The most controversial U.S. magazine covers of 2017

In this age of outrage, people are easily triggered by things with which they disagree.
Quite a few magazine covers set people off this year for a variety of reasons.
What follows is a summary of the U.S. magazine covers that caused the most controversy in 2017.

Mediocre-quarterback-turned-social-justice-warrior Colin Kaepernick proved to be a polarizing figure in 2017. Depending on your perspective, he’s either a showboating player who wanted to draw attention to himself as he rode the bench or a selfless crusader for racial justice.
GQ magazine drew criticism when it put Kaepernick on its cover and named him “Citizen of the Year,” overlooking arguably more worthy candidates.
(See articles by the Daily Mail and the New York Post.)

When Sports Illustrated did a cover story on protests by professional athletes, it caught flak for leaving Kaepernick off its composite image.
(See articles by the Washington Post, SB Nation, the Root, and the Federalist.)

Newsweek raised eyebrows with its Aug. 11 cover that depicted President Donald Trump as a slovenly couch potato and called him “Lazy Boy.” But that cover was tame compared to Trump’s treatment by foreign magazines. (More on that in a follow-up post.)
(See articles by the Huffington Post, Fox Business, Boston Globe and Salon.)

Rolling Stone was criticized for its fawning hero worship of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on its Aug. 10 cover. It carried the cover line “Justin Trudeau: Why Can’t He Be Our President?”
(See articles by the Huffington Post, the Blaze and the Ottawa Sun.)

Another cover that set off gag reflexes was the July 24 issue of New York magazine, which featured lovebird political commentators (and Trump critics) MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. (See article by the National Review titled “That Joe and Mika New York Magazine Cover Is Why Everyone Hates the Media.”)

Interview magazine got tongues wagging with its September issue. Its cover depicted reality TV personality Kim Kardashian West as First Lady and done up like Jackie Kennedy. (See articles by Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, the Daily Mail and the Daily Beast.)

New York magazine’s July 10-23 cover stirred up a hornet’s nest with its alarmist global warming cover story.
(See article by Mashable and Twitter Moments commentary.)

Newsweek got a prickly response to its cover story about women fighting against systemic sexual harassment. The cover illustration showed a balloon penis being popped with a pin.
(See articles by the Huffington Post, Slate and Splinter.)

Tennis star Serena Williams became the latest pregnant celebrity to pose for a magazine cover, with the August issue of Vanity Fair. Now some people are saying enough is enough with this clichéd cover.
(See articles by the Washington Post and Vox.)

The Hollywood Reporter was slammed for its lack of diversity on its all-male cover story on CNN.
(See articles by the Daily Mail and the Washington Post.)

Vogue apologized for its August cover story, which mischaracterized “gender fluidity.” It suggested that heterosexual couple Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik are gender fluid because they sometimes borrow each other’s clothing.
(See articles by CBS News, the Daily Mail and Statesman.)

In August, Paper magazine was accused of heavily Photoshopping singer Mariah Carey on its Las Vegas issue cover.
(See articles by the Mirror, Daily Telegraph and AceShowbiz.)

In November, Paper magazine set the internet on fire with its cover photo showing rapper-singer Nicki Minaj in triplicate and performing sex acts on herself.
(See articles by the Daily Mail, TooFab, AV Club, CBS News and US Magazine.)

In September, actress and wannabe lifestyle maven Gwyneth Paltrow was ridiculed for her cover photo on the premiere issue of her magazine Goop. Paltrow posed topless and covered in mud.
(See articles by Page Six, Huffington Post and People.)

People magazine ticked off a lot of people when it named country music star Blake Shelton as this year’s “Sexiest Man Alive” cover celebrity.
(See articles by the Los Angeles Times and Business Insider.)

People magazine also came under fire for its June 12 cover, which implied that Jennifer Garner gave an interview to the publication about life after her breakup with cheating husband Ben Affleck.
(See articles by the Huffington Post, USA Today and the Hollywood Reporter.)

Lady Gaga got pulses racing with her cover of V magazine when she exposed the bottoms of her breasts with a bit of areola.
(See articles by E Online, InStyle and Us magazine.)

Speaking of underboob with a hint of areola, Hustler magazine risked offending Muslims with its 43rd anniversary issue. The cover featured a model braless model wearing an American flag as a hijab that slightly exposed one breast.
(See articles by Yahoo, Fox News and Xbiz.)

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