According to official history, July 5th, 2016 marks the 70th anniversary of the birth of the bikini.
To celebrate the Bikini’s 70th Birthday we compiled a list that establishes who had the hottest bikini bods of ALL-TIME.
We think you’re gonna like what our editors came up with…
10. KATHY IRELAND
The American bombshell first crashed on to the scene as a cover girl for Sports Illustrated’s famed Swimsuit Edition back in 1989 and went on to appear in 13 consecutive Swimsuit Editions for the magazine…with her debut cover being named the “The Greatest Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover Of All Time” by its publisher.
9. KATE UPTON
The voluptuous beauty is another Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition veteran, and quite possibly the most coveted model of her generation. The 24 year-old has been a sex symbol since her 18th birthday saw her grace the cover of a magazine.
8. TYRA BANKS
Tyra has the distinction of being one of the original Victoria’s Secret Angels, a prestigious role she parlayed into cover girl roles for numerous magazines as she quickly established herself as one of the most glamorous super models of her era…or any other era for that matter.
7. CHARLIZE THERON
It really isn’t fair what God gives to some people…and Charlize Theron to certainly gifted…in body and talent.
6. CINDY CRAWFORD
She’s been called the super model’s super model, a gold standard of beauty for any decade. And perhaps no one made a gold bikini look so interesting as Cindy did back in a 1992 magazine shoot…
5. ANN-MARGRET
Perhaps no name defined a Sixties sex kitten than Anne-Margret, she was America’s pin up, a flirt that the country couldn’t take its eyes away from…and with good reason. But she was much more than a pretty face, the girl had some acting chops to boot.
4. BRIGITTE BARDOT
The ideal French sex pot, she was the it girl of her time, on every playboy’s arm, she stole the heart of every man that so much as saw her…and she redefined what it meant to wear a bikini at all.
3. MARILYN MONROE
Recognized in general for her curves and admired for her lack of inhibition when it came to flaunting her fabulous figure, she was America’s original Playboy pinup, and remains a sex icon more than 50 years after her untimely death.
2. URSULA ANDRESS
Known for her legendary scene in James Bond’s ‘Dr No’ where she rises out of the sea looking gorgeous in a classic white bikini, she immediately became the pop culture icon of an era, and a sex symbol forevermore.
1. RAQUEL WELCH
Famous for her stunning appearance in nothing but a doe-skin bikini which she wore so well in the film ‘One Million Years BC.’…she brought put the caveman in man that saw her.
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