We know you missed her!
There was a time when a new bikini photo of Kate Upton would pop up every few days, but it’s been a long time since she’s been bouncing around in a tiny bra top.
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Sadly this photo shoot for Net-A-Porter‘s The Edit won’t make up for that — her body stays mostly covered!
However, we will never truly be disappointed in new images of the bodacious blonde, especially when she looks as sophisticated as she does in this spread!
The supermodel also gets very candid about the uses of social media and the darker side of fame, and how she has personally learned to cope with it! Apparently, the key is to just ignore most of it.
Despite social media’s role in launching her career, Kate is rather disillusioned with it now:
“I feel like social media at this point is kind of b******t. At the beginning it was amazing and a lot of fun. It was like, ├óΓé¼╦£Cool, I can talk to my fans!’ And now I think that we’re losing the art of it. When I joined Twitter it was just me, but [when] you’ve got contracts, it’s so planned. Now it’s about who has the best marketing, not who has a really good personality.”
And though she used to take harsh critiques to heart, she’s grown a tougher shell since then:
“Because I actually cared what people thought. The only thing I do for other people now is cook. That’s the only place in my life where I care what they think.”
She also just doesn’t read much of the criticism anymore:
“I’ve heard people say, you put yourself in that position to be judged. But no, I put myself in that position because I really liked that photographer, I wanted to do that piece of work. Not to be judged. The internet can be horrible, so I just don’t look at it anymore. But maybe a little hate is good for me. Because if I’m in a spot where everyone loves me, I won’t try as hard.”
You go, girl!!
See the pics from the spread in the gallery (above)!
[Image via The Edit]