“Me and my husband had been wanting to get pregnant for a couple years,” she explains.
There’s another reason Williams English was so happy to do the shoot while she was expecting.
India Moon for SI in Dominica Yu Tsai/ SPORTS ILLUSTRATED I wish I could relive it over and over and over.” “I think I got pampered a little more than usual because I was so pregnant. “They were just taking care of me, ‘Drink water, drink water, here’s snacks.’” she recalls. (To be fair, lounging on a tropical beach instead sounds like a nice consolation.)īut any challenges, she said, came with extra consideration from the crew. And, needless to say, in her off-time, off-roading adventures with some of her fellow models were off the table. I pushed it right to the limit.” During the shoot, the crew kept ice buckets on hand for her swollen feet and ankles in-between takes.
“I literally got home the day before that. “My doctor was like, ‘You can't travel past this date,’” she explains. But for Williams English, the idea of complementing her bikini with a seven-months-along bump was “an added bonus.” This isn’t to say the scenario wasn’t without challenges. “And then they were like, ‘We also want to shoot you pregnant.’”įor many, the proposition would be a record scratch moment. “My dream, not even a job.” So when SI told her she’d be shooting for the 2023 issue as a rookie in Dominica, she was “bawling” her eyes out.
My dream job,” she tells Romper, before pausing. “It’s been literally one of my goals for as long as I can remember, since I was a teenager. And like many models, Nicole Williams English had always dreamed of being featured in those glossy pages. For nearly 60 years, the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition has held an iconic place in pop culture with glamorous locations, beautiful models, striking photography.
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