"I was well on my way, I had done collections in Paris," Beatty said. Prior to Beatty's debut on the cover, she had already been a successful model. "I was very skinny and I was very tall for those days, I am 5'10, so I had the right look." Not because I thought I was good-looking, I just thought I would make it," said Beatty. "I don't think it happens too often, even then it was unusual." "I just walked in and I said, here I am and they took me right away," Beatty said. " I did not have any money, so when I came to New York I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store."īeatty, who modeled for Ford Modeling Agency her entire career, says she had not been contracted with the agency before she moved to New York City. "I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly," Beatty said. The cover photo was taken on the beach in Tulum, right near the Mayan ruins, according to Beatty.īeatty began her modeling career in 1961. "We hired a fishing boat that took us around then took us to Tulum." "We landed in Cozumel, Mexico and at the time we stayed in an abandoned, partially built hotel," Beatty said. I was just surprised that I didn't know it that I was going to be on the cover." We went to Tulum, Mexico, and there were no plans behind it. It wasn't anything planned and I did not know I was going to be on the cover," Beatty told ABC News. "It was 1963 and it was a photo shoot like any other, like a locations shoot. With Sports Illustrated celebrating the 50 th anniversary of their swimsuit issue this week, ABC News spoke to Beatty (her last name was formerly March), to find out what it was like to be the first cover model in the issue. The publication, which comes out only once a year, has highlighted some of the most famous models for the past 50 years. Babette Beatty had no idea she would be the first model to grace the cover of the now highly anticipated Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue.
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