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Sports Illustrated swimsuit gig came as a thrill to Kate Bock (with video)
Model from West Vancouver didn’t seek her career; it found her
The identities of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit models are a closely guarded secret — the chosen few are sworn to silence until the magazine’s debut — but West Vancouver’s Kate Bock blew that silence right off the bat.
The globe-trotting model was back home riding in a car with her sister and her cousin last August when she got the phone call saying she was one of four “rookies” chosen to take part in beachside bikini shoots around the world.
“We were all screaming in the car together,” Bock says. “We got to enjoy that moment.
“They heard me on the phone. They were going, ‘What is happening?’ We were dancing around. I spilled the beans on that one, but they kept it quiet.”
The swimsuit edition is the sports mag’s annual best-seller, and has been a launch pad for some of modelling’s biggest superstars.
Bock left B.C. more than seven years ago after graduating from West Van secondary school, living first in Paris and then in New York as her modelling career took off.
For the early-November shoot, Bock left New York, just as Hurricane Sandy as approaching the U.S. eastern seaboard, to meet photographer David Burton and his crew on Chile’s remote Easter Island. She ended up on location a day late and shot for two-and-a-half days.
In addition to a rack of bathing suits, the props included a couple of horses, on which Bock had to look natural and relaxed while wearing microscopic swimwear. Bock’s photos have her upstaging the remote island’s famous giant-head rock carvings.
Unlike most modelling jobs, an SI swimsuit shoot is about showcasing the model — not the product.
“It’s one of the most exciting jobs in this industry, a huge platform,” she says. “You get to be yourself.
“They’re printing my name and my story, rather than me representing a brand or a label.”
As they worked, the New York-based crew wondered whether the big storm had taken out their apartment homes.
“We didn’t have Internet or cell-phone service,” she says. “They had one laptop in the hotel lobby.
“A crazy experience in a faraway land.”
Other models went to Europe and Africa for their photos.
After the shoot, Bock returned to Vancouver for a visit, still sworn to secrecy. She was finally able to break the news at a press launch last week in Las Vegas.
The Sports Illustrated gig caps a career that started when modelling agent Liz Bell spotted 12-year-old Kate at a public swimming pool. The agent told the kid and her parents that she was a natural for modelling, and almost immediately Kate and her mom booked her a gig shooting magazine ads for clothier Abercrombie and Fitch in Santa Barbara, Calif.
“When I look back now and see all my class pictures and school sports pictures, I was like a solid, full-on head taller than everyone, and thin, and gawky,” she says. “We didn’t go seeking [a modelling career] out. It kind of fell in my lap.”
That first shoot was heady stuff for the 12-year-old Kate. “When we were 12, Abercrombie and Fitch was the best store in the world . . . We were outside in a field next to a barn. For that to be your first taste of the industry was dreamy.”
Modelling work continued through high school, after which she moved to Paris to pursue it full-time.
“I was a normal kid, I played soccer, was on the swim team,” she says, adding that being a part-time model in high school did nothing for her dating life.
“I remember the school dances, do the hands-on-the-shoulders dancing and I was so much taller, it wasn’t really working for me.”
Her profile steadily rose as a model in Paris and then New York, and she had met with the Sports Illustrated creative types in past years.
“You’re in the office for an hour maybe, just talking,” she says.
“They just want to get to know you, but you never know if they need another blond or a Canadian or what they’re looking for in the issue. For whatever reason, this was my year.”
This year, not only did she get the role, but one of her best friends in New York, model Emily DiDonato, also got the call. Bock later found out that two other Sports Illustrated models live within a few blocks of her New York City home.
They hang out off duty, which could cause a celebrity frenzy after the magazine hits the streets.
“We were talking, ‘Oh, let’s do a spin class together.’ That could be hilarious.”
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http://www.theprovince.com/entertai...suit+came+thrill+Kate+Bock/7981791/story.html
Model from West Vancouver didn’t seek her career; it found her
The identities of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit models are a closely guarded secret — the chosen few are sworn to silence until the magazine’s debut — but West Vancouver’s Kate Bock blew that silence right off the bat.
The globe-trotting model was back home riding in a car with her sister and her cousin last August when she got the phone call saying she was one of four “rookies” chosen to take part in beachside bikini shoots around the world.
“We were all screaming in the car together,” Bock says. “We got to enjoy that moment.
“They heard me on the phone. They were going, ‘What is happening?’ We were dancing around. I spilled the beans on that one, but they kept it quiet.”
The swimsuit edition is the sports mag’s annual best-seller, and has been a launch pad for some of modelling’s biggest superstars.
Bock left B.C. more than seven years ago after graduating from West Van secondary school, living first in Paris and then in New York as her modelling career took off.
For the early-November shoot, Bock left New York, just as Hurricane Sandy as approaching the U.S. eastern seaboard, to meet photographer David Burton and his crew on Chile’s remote Easter Island. She ended up on location a day late and shot for two-and-a-half days.
In addition to a rack of bathing suits, the props included a couple of horses, on which Bock had to look natural and relaxed while wearing microscopic swimwear. Bock’s photos have her upstaging the remote island’s famous giant-head rock carvings.
Unlike most modelling jobs, an SI swimsuit shoot is about showcasing the model — not the product.
“It’s one of the most exciting jobs in this industry, a huge platform,” she says. “You get to be yourself.
“They’re printing my name and my story, rather than me representing a brand or a label.”
As they worked, the New York-based crew wondered whether the big storm had taken out their apartment homes.
“We didn’t have Internet or cell-phone service,” she says. “They had one laptop in the hotel lobby.
“A crazy experience in a faraway land.”
Other models went to Europe and Africa for their photos.
After the shoot, Bock returned to Vancouver for a visit, still sworn to secrecy. She was finally able to break the news at a press launch last week in Las Vegas.
The Sports Illustrated gig caps a career that started when modelling agent Liz Bell spotted 12-year-old Kate at a public swimming pool. The agent told the kid and her parents that she was a natural for modelling, and almost immediately Kate and her mom booked her a gig shooting magazine ads for clothier Abercrombie and Fitch in Santa Barbara, Calif.
“When I look back now and see all my class pictures and school sports pictures, I was like a solid, full-on head taller than everyone, and thin, and gawky,” she says. “We didn’t go seeking [a modelling career] out. It kind of fell in my lap.”
That first shoot was heady stuff for the 12-year-old Kate. “When we were 12, Abercrombie and Fitch was the best store in the world . . . We were outside in a field next to a barn. For that to be your first taste of the industry was dreamy.”
Modelling work continued through high school, after which she moved to Paris to pursue it full-time.
“I was a normal kid, I played soccer, was on the swim team,” she says, adding that being a part-time model in high school did nothing for her dating life.
“I remember the school dances, do the hands-on-the-shoulders dancing and I was so much taller, it wasn’t really working for me.”
Her profile steadily rose as a model in Paris and then New York, and she had met with the Sports Illustrated creative types in past years.
“You’re in the office for an hour maybe, just talking,” she says.
“They just want to get to know you, but you never know if they need another blond or a Canadian or what they’re looking for in the issue. For whatever reason, this was my year.”
This year, not only did she get the role, but one of her best friends in New York, model Emily DiDonato, also got the call. Bock later found out that two other Sports Illustrated models live within a few blocks of her New York City home.
They hang out off duty, which could cause a celebrity frenzy after the magazine hits the streets.
“We were talking, ‘Oh, let’s do a spin class together.’ That could be hilarious.”
Source:
http://www.theprovince.com/entertai...suit+came+thrill+Kate+Bock/7981791/story.html
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Kate Bock - Sports Illustrated and The LVCVA Host "Club SI Swimsuit" at 1 Oak Nightclub at The Mirage - Las Vegas, NV, United States - Thursday 14th February 2013
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Nice body, but her face. She is another Julie Henderson what are they doing in SI nothing cute at all.
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And the final three photos from Sports Illustrated
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