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Supermodel Kate Upton is already known for her enormous … accomplishments, but her most impressive by far took place in December 2012. Wearing little more than boots and a bikini bottom, the 20-year-old Florida native posed for the cover of Sports Illustrated's 2013 Swimsuit Issue aboard the megayacht Le Boreal—in Antarctica. "It was freezing," the astute Upton later said of posing with ice floes and emperor penguins. "I was working so hard to keep warm."

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