NEW YORK, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Robyn Lawley will grace the pages of the 2015 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
The 25-year-old Australian native is the first plus-size model to officially be featured in the magazine's annual swimwear edition. Sports Illustrated announced Lawley as a rookie Thursday, a day after revealing plus-size model Ashley Graham will appear in a Swimsuits for All ad in the issue.
"Ahhhhhhh I'm beyond estatic to join the amazing @si_swimsuit family!" Lawley wrote on Instagram. "If someone told me at the beginning of my career that this would happen I would of said 'tell em his dreamin' haha! Thankyou @mj_day @jamesmacari@ja_neyney @darciebaum and the whole SI awesome peeps for embracing who I am in the 2015 issue!"
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Jimmy Fallon unveiled 24-year-old model Hannah Davis on the cover of the issue Wednesday on The Tonight Show. The swimwear edition will debut online Feb. 9 and on newsstands Feb. 10, and celebrate with events and musical performances Feb. 11-12 in Nashville.
Lawley is a size 12, and achieved several milestones for plus-size models. She was the first plus-size model to appear in Australian Vogue and GQ Australia, and the first to cover Australia Cosmopolitan. She also is a designer, and released her own swimwear line in 2013.
