Sixty years after landing the first SI Swimsuit Issue cover in 1964, Babette Beatty is still receiving regular fan mail from her many admirers.
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00:00 Yeah, this was actually a surprise when I came out.
00:03 Hi, I'm Babette, and I did make the first cover of Sports Illustrated.
00:09 That was a long time ago.
00:12 The woman who started it all, right here.
00:15 I had just started modeling in '62.
00:18 The shoot was in '63, and it was just a nice trip to go on.
00:23 I don't think the cover was planned. It just happened.
00:27 Beautiful. You already look beautiful.
00:29 I don't have an iPhone.
00:31 Good for you.
00:33 Got a lot of marriage proposals from it, which I didn't accept.
00:37 And that's me. That's the sexiest bathing suit I ever wore for Sports Illustrated.
00:42 Yeah, I like this picture.
00:45 Actually, I'm sort of incognito. I live in a very small town in Oregon.
00:52 Most people don't realize, you know, they don't know.
00:56 They don't know.
00:57 Legend. Legendary.
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