{{Short description|American magazine editor}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = MJ Day | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Editor-in-chief of the ''Sports Illustrated'' Swimsuit Issue | alma_mater = University of Mary Washington | known_for = }} '''MJ Day''' is an American magazine editor who is the editor-in-chief of the ''Sports Illustrated'' Swimsuit Issue, which she has led since 2014.
==Overview==
Day grew up in Ocean County, New Jersey and graduated from the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1997. She was an intern for ''InStyle'', a fashion magazine, before being hired as an editorial assistant for the ''Sports Illustrated'' Swimsuit Issue in 1998.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2014/02/sports_illustrated_swimsuit_cover_model_nj.html|title=Top editor brings Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue to her native Jersey Shore|date=2014-02-13|last=Griffith|first=Janelle|website=NJ.com|access-date=2024-12-26}}</ref><ref name="BI15">{{cite news|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/mj-day-si-swimsuit-issue-career-2015-3|title=The woman who runs the SI swimsuit issue started as an assistant who spent 8 hours a day organizing bikinis|date=2015-03-03|last=Manfred|first=Tony|website=Business Insider|access-date=2024-12-26}}</ref> In 2013, she supervised the launch of the website ''Swim Daily''; it promotes the swimsuit issue and its models year round. She became the swimsuit issue's editor-in-chief in 2014.<ref name="BI15"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://swimsuit.si.com/swimnews/welcome-to-sports-illustrateds-newest-site-swimdaily-com|title=Welcome to Swim Daily|last=Bean|first=Matt|date=2013-02-09|website=Sports Illustrated|access-date=2024-12-26}}</ref>
During her tenure, the swimsuit issue has introduced a greater range of body types and emphasized body positivity and women's empowerment.<ref name="VF18">{{cite news|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/02/sports-illustrated-swimsuit-metoo-era|title=Meet the First Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue of the #MeToo Era|last=Vanderhoof|first=Erin|date=2018-02-07|magazine=Vanity Fair|access-date=2024-12-26}}</ref><ref name="WP21">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/05/sports-illustrated-swimsuit-issues-models-are-diverse-their-poses-are-not/|title=Opinion: The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue's models are diverse. Their poses are not.|last=Cohen|first=Kate|date=2021-08-05|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=2024-12-26}}</ref><ref name="Y22">{{cite news|url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sports-illustrated-swimsuit-launches-gender-equity-advertising-mandate-145133992.html|title=Sports Illustrated Swimsuit launches gender equity advertising mandate|last=Christoforous|first=Alexis|date=2022-02-07|publisher=Yahoo Finance|access-date=2024-12-26}}</ref> Robyn Lawley was the issue's first plus-size model in 2015.<ref name="WP21"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://time.com/3697015/sports-illustrated-swimsuit-edition-plus-size-model-robyn-lawley/|title=Meet the First Plus-Size Model in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition History|last=Stampler|first=Laura|date=2015-02-05|magazine=Time|access-date=2024-12-26}}</ref> In the 2017 issue, Nina Agdal wore a tank top reading "A Woman Does Not Have to Be Modest to be Respected", while in 2018, models chose their own words and messages to portray in body paint in a spread.<ref name="VF18"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2018/02/13/sports-illustrated-swimsuit-models-express-themselves-her-own-words/319969002/|title=Special 'Sports Illustrated' swimsuit spread lets models express themselves|last1=Schad|first1=Tom|last2=Gardner|first2=Steve|date=2018-02-13|newspaper=USA Today|access-date=2024-12-26}}</ref> Leyna Bloom was the magazine's first openly transgender cover model in 2021.<ref name="Y22"/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb name|nm4318419}}
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