Sports Illustrated is an American sports media franchise owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. Its self titled magazine has over 3.5 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the National Magazine Award for General Excellence twice. Its swimsuit issue, which has been published since 1964, is now an annual publishing event that generates its own television shows, videos and calendars.

Two other magazines named Sports Illustrated were started in the 1920s and 1930s, but they both quickly failed. Following these events, there was no large-base general sports magazine with a national following. It was then that Time patriarch Henry Luce began considering whether his company should attempt to fill that gap. At the time, many believed sports was beneath the attention of serious journalism and did not think sports news could fill a weekly magazine, especially during the winter. A number of advisers to Luce, including Life magazine's Ernest Havemann, tried to kill the idea, but Luce, who was not a sports fan, decided the time was right.

Robyn Lawley (Born June 13, 1989) is an Australian Model from the Western Suburbs of Sydney, Australia. She is best known as the first Plus-size model to be shot for Australian Vogue and the first Australian plus size model to be on the cover of Madison, an Australian Fashion magazine.

Robyn was born in Girraween, New South Wales to Chris and Janne Lawley and has two older sisters. Robyn went to see a mainstream agency when she was 15 and although they were ready to sign her, she didn't feel ready. After taking a year off she returned and started doing straight size modeling for a year. Finding it to not be worth the effort of maintaining the size 8 that was required, she signed with Bella model management, a "plus size" modeling agency based out of Australia, when she was 18.

Robyn's mother agent is BELLA model management. However, she is also represented by Wilhelmina Agency in New York City, Milk Management in the United Kingdom, New Madison Models in France,Why Not Model Agency in Milan, and OKAY models in Germany.