Sports Illustrated Swimsuit honcho MJ Day and other staffers from the bikini bible popped out with a camera crew as the cover of this year’s magazine, featuring Nu, filled a nearby monitor.“I was processing the surprise of it not being a real interview and that this was actually the SI cover reveal.
I could not speak. I had full body chills. I was shaking, I was crying. They really got me good,” said Nu.Her first call was to her boyfriend Dimitri Dinas.“He was freaking out.
He was like, ‘If I were a teenage boy, I’d have a poster of you in my room. Now I’m dating an SI cover star.’ “He has many reasons to be proud of his girlfriend.
It’s been a stretch of career highlights for the plus-sized model and singer who is of Dutch and Japanese extraction. (Her mother is the daughter of Benihana founder Rocky Aoki, and she is the niece of DJ Steve Aoki).
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