$30 Million diamond bikini

[underpants]

Actress Molly Sims is shown wearing a $30 million diamond bikini in this publicity photograph released February 14, 2006. The bikini, designed by Susan Rosen is made up of over 150 carats of D flawless diamonds. The bikini is featured in the 2006 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue which is being released February 14. NO SALES NO ARCHIVES REUTERS/Diamond Information Center/Handout

[matcom]

1. can i count her carats?

:bounce:

[underpants]

2. YIPPPPEEEE!!!

The 5 C's

Color
Clarity
Carats

um


Cut

and COST

[Orrin_73]

3. What about the other C???

:blush: :blush: :blush:

[ET Awful]

9. I'll have to get a jewelers monocle and inspect those diamonds up close

for flaws :P

[matcom]

4. I'm buying one for Ashley Lyn Cafagna-Tesoro

its her birthday today :D

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4750855

[tjdee]

5. The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition is a joke.

It's a soft porn issue, plain and simple. Why bother wearing any clothes at all?

I'd guess that the amount of women buying that issue is very, very low.

:grr:

[AngryAmish]

6. And your point is?

Of course it is what you call it. The amount of women buying SI is already very low.

However spring training games are weeks away and we have to do something.

[xchrom]

7. i love that issue -- and i'm a gay man.

:woohoo:

[tjdee]

19. Why?

If you don't mind my asking?

[xchrom]

22. because it's fabulous and fun.

i know people who work in that kind of business -- it's very, very hard work.
and on the whole -- it's not the salacious stuff we hear about.

just folk doing their jobs and getting a paycheck.

[tjdee]

25. I can respect that.

I've been on a few photo shoots and I can agree that it's very difficult/tiring work. So I can't fault the models, really. And the mag is going to make money, sure.

But the fact that they go through all this trouble so men can leer at these women's body parts....that just irks me.

[ET Awful]

8. And? That's the intent of the issue. It's not a shopping guide for women

in the market for a new swimsuit. It's not a catalog for women to browse for next year's best styles.

It's designed simply to titillate men, it has been for ages.

Not many men buy People's "Sexiest Men" issue either, where's the outrage about that?

[tjdee]

17. The Sexiest man usually isn't in a g-string.

I'm just sayin'. :shrug:

[mikeytherat]

10. Si Swimsuit issue is just like Maxxim:

Softcore for guys without the guts to buy REAL porn. If you wanna see all the "naughty bits," than just do it; don't half-(exposed)-ass it!

mikey_the_rat

[underpants]

12. DIng!

we have a winner

[Heidi]

11. What's pornographic about nude or nearly nude bodies?

Nudity doesn't equal pornography.

[tjdee]

16. You're right, but the purpose of the issue is to titillate.

I certainly, certainly see a difference between nudity and pornography, but I see that issue as a self-love gift to straight men, period. I'm sure someone, the models, maybe, think "I'm taking a fun picture about fun" or whatever.... but that's not why SI spends the money on it. They know straight men will buy it to leer at the women, and it's a cash cow for them. No one ever went broke getting straight men to look at boobies and butts.

[LSK]

23. no, the women are thinking they are getting paid to lay out on the beach

And getting paid HUGH!

[LisaL]

13. Well, that's a waste of money. She might as well be naked.

[Deep13]

14. wow! wax much? nt

[edbermac]

15. Bikini...what bikini?

:loveya:

[RevolutionaryActs]

18. That's a lot of air brushing.

:o

[Beaverhausen]

20. I'd say photoshop

lots and lots of it.

[Left Is Write]

21. I see the retouchers have been busy again.

:D

[Bucky]

24. you know, for 30 mil you think she'd get a little more of a suit than that

How the hell is that gonna protect her from UVs?

[laurelbunny]

26. that's 30 million dollars !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH MY GOD!!!!!! :wow:

[NMMNG]

27. That sort of ostentatious bullsh*t makes me sick

People are homeless, going hungry, dying for need of medical care, and selfish f*ckwits are designing and buying $30 million bikinis. Sickening.

[Oeditpus Rex]

28. And exactly *what* is the point of this?

Creating a "bikini" supposedly worth $30 million is far, far more obscene than what it's pretending to cover.

[Robeson]

29. Anyone who would buy a 30 million dollar bikini, should have their....

...wealth confiscated, and redistributed to the poor.