Big Mac, wife make SI swimsuit edition
BY BRIAN BRUEGGEMANN
News-Democrat
Madison County residents who pick up a copy of Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit edition will see one of their own: Stephanie McGwire, a Glen Carbon native and wife of slugger Mark McGwire.
Stephanie McGwire, formerly Stephanie Slemer, is one of four wives or girlfriends of athletes featured in the edition.
"It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do something fun with my husband at a beautiful resort," Stephanie McGwire said Tuesday, the day the edition hit newsstands. "I just thought it'd be great. I couldn't pass it up."
Sports Illustrated contacted the McGwires last year.
"They contacted Mark's public-relations people, and then asked him to ask if we'd be interested," Stephanie McGwire said. "We decided it was something we were interested in and wanted to do, and that was it."
The edition contains one photo of the McGwires, posing at Laguna Beach, Calif. A crew took about 300 pictures during a photo shoot that lasted about four hours.
Before that, make-up, hair styling and selecting swimsuits took another two hours.
"They probably brought at least a hundred pairs of suits for me to try on," Stephanie Mc Gwire said. "And then they let me make the final decision on two different suits."
She's told a few relatives to watch for the edition, and word of her appearance has spread.
"I know my family's told quite a few people," she said.
Stephanie McGwire, 27, married her husband, who holds the single-season home run record for the St. Louis Cardinals, in 2002. The couple has two sons, a 1-year-old and a 2-year-old.
"So I was working out hard in the gym," she said.
Stephanie McGwire said she felt no trepidation about posing for the edition, which Sports Illustrated says will reach 59 million adults in the United States alone.
"No, I didn't. I was so excited about it," she said. "I trained really hard for this, both Mark and I, so when the time came around, I was really excited and ready to do it. We had a blast."
Stephanie McGwire was a sales representative for a pharmaceutical company before her marriage. She's done some modeling.
"Just little magazine ads," she said. "I've done a few little things here and there, but nothing as big as Sports Illustrated, that's for sure."
She will receive no pay for the Sports Illustrated shoot.
Contact Brian Brueggemann at bbrueggemann@bnd.com or 692-9481.
BY BRIAN BRUEGGEMANN
News-Democrat
Madison County residents who pick up a copy of Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit edition will see one of their own: Stephanie McGwire, a Glen Carbon native and wife of slugger Mark McGwire.
Stephanie McGwire, formerly Stephanie Slemer, is one of four wives or girlfriends of athletes featured in the edition.
"It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do something fun with my husband at a beautiful resort," Stephanie McGwire said Tuesday, the day the edition hit newsstands. "I just thought it'd be great. I couldn't pass it up."
Sports Illustrated contacted the McGwires last year.
"They contacted Mark's public-relations people, and then asked him to ask if we'd be interested," Stephanie McGwire said. "We decided it was something we were interested in and wanted to do, and that was it."
The edition contains one photo of the McGwires, posing at Laguna Beach, Calif. A crew took about 300 pictures during a photo shoot that lasted about four hours.
Before that, make-up, hair styling and selecting swimsuits took another two hours.
"They probably brought at least a hundred pairs of suits for me to try on," Stephanie Mc Gwire said. "And then they let me make the final decision on two different suits."
She's told a few relatives to watch for the edition, and word of her appearance has spread.
"I know my family's told quite a few people," she said.
Stephanie McGwire, 27, married her husband, who holds the single-season home run record for the St. Louis Cardinals, in 2002. The couple has two sons, a 1-year-old and a 2-year-old.
"So I was working out hard in the gym," she said.
Stephanie McGwire said she felt no trepidation about posing for the edition, which Sports Illustrated says will reach 59 million adults in the United States alone.
"No, I didn't. I was so excited about it," she said. "I trained really hard for this, both Mark and I, so when the time came around, I was really excited and ready to do it. We had a blast."
Stephanie McGwire was a sales representative for a pharmaceutical company before her marriage. She's done some modeling.
"Just little magazine ads," she said. "I've done a few little things here and there, but nothing as big as Sports Illustrated, that's for sure."
She will receive no pay for the Sports Illustrated shoot.
Contact Brian Brueggemann at bbrueggemann@bnd.com or 692-9481.
