Yumi Nu

The rising model, musician and fashion entrepreneur opens up to PEOPLE about bringing diversity to the cover of 2022 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

I feel the most confident when I'm in pursuit of things I love, when I'm actively writing music and creating. "In her first year of being in the spotlight, Yumi is coming into who she is and taking on the responsibility of what she stands for. Think big, leave so much room for yourself to do what you might think is impossible. "The journey we've been on — to break out of the mold the world put us in — may sound familiar. It's certainly familiar to the women we've chosen to be our cover models: Maye, Ciara, Yumi, Kim," MJ Day, Editor in Chief of SI Swimsuit, said in a statement. We want to be on the frontline of change in the industry.

The singer-songwriter is the first Asian curve model on an SI cover, and the niece of model Devon Aoki and DJ Steve Aoki.

I really had my sights set on music, but then the industry left more room for me to be a part of it. He was like, ‘If I were a teenage boy, I’d have a poster of you in my room. I was shaking, I was crying.

A controversial clinical psychologist and YouTuber has some thoughts on model Yumi Nu's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover.

I know I play a big role in representation in body diversity and race diversity, and I love to be a role model and representative of the plus-size Asian community.” It’s a big time for Asian American people in media. “I feel like we’re in a place right now where people are making space for more diversity on magazine covers. I was shaking, I was crying. But no doubt beautiful & decent proportions,” another wrote. “I could not speak.

“Sorry. Not beautiful. And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that.” Jordan B. Peterson on Yumi Nu. TORONTO, ON - DECEMBER 6 - ...

But I’m above that kind of discourse, and I am certainly no authoritarian, so instead I’ll usher Peterson to where he — on his epic heroes journey — was destined to arrive: The Bad Tweet Hall of Fame. I could go on, about Peterson, and all the toxic sludge that he peddles. “The cure for that is enforced monogamy. Peterson has gone on record to condone concepts like “ enforced monogamy” in which women would be doled out to straight men equitably like, I don’t know, um, bread or some other inanimate resource. This is the Input Bad Tweet Hall of Fame. That’s actually why monogamy emerges.”

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit today announced this year's cover models, featuring Kim Kardashian, Ciara, Maye Musk and Yumi Nu. 2022 marks the 59th inst.

SI Swimsuit invites readers to create their own cover moment on the back of the issue, welcoming all individuals to be an SI Swimsuit cover model. Sports Illustrated Swimsuit has become a lifestyle platform that champions body confidence and self-expression, and connects with diverse audiences through digital content and signature experiences that nurture the body, soul and spirit. The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue is one of the most recognizable and influential symbols of pop culture. - All international photo use must be cleared through SI Content Management: [email protected]. - All international photo use must be cleared through SI Content Management: [email protected]. For more, follow Sports Illustrated Swimsuit @si_swimsuit and visit swimsuit.si.com. Day continued, “We all deserve the chance to evolve. - All international video use must be cleared through SI Content Management: [email protected]. The events will feature special activations from launch-week partners, including Maybelline and their Brave Together Initiative, Frida Mom, Celsius, U.S. Virgin Islands, Nine West and Sunflow. It’s certainly familiar to the women we’ve chosen to be our cover models: Maye, Ciara, Yumi, Kim,” said MJ Day, Editor in Chief of SI Swimsuit. “At 74, Maye continues to work every day to inspire those around her. SI Swim launched Pay With Change, the first-of-its-kind advertising call-to-action where all brands participating showcase their commitment to making meaningful advances for female empowerment. “The journey we’ve been on—to break out of the mold the world put us in—may sound familiar.

Author and clinical psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson called Sports Illustrated's swimsuit cover model Yumi Nu "not beautiful" ...

And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that.” “No amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that,” Peterson continued in the tweet, which quoted the New York Post’s article featuring Nu on the cover. I want to enjoy life,” but is looking to move her career forward with music and modeling, the NY Post continued.

Model Yumi Nu just made history as the first Asian plus-size model on the cover of Sports Illustrated's iconic swim issue. TZR sits down with the star.

“I’m hoping to get into the Asian fashion industry more and shake it up in the best way possible because of what I think a lot of Asian women go through. She says she probably wouldn’t have struggled with her self-image the way that she did through middle and high school if she’d seen more people like herself, in bathing suits and being celebrated for their beauty, featured on the cover of the likes of SI Swim. Nu has experienced fashion’s shortcomings both as an everyday consumer and as a model — she says some of the brands she’s worked with in the past haven’t been prepared with clothing her size on set. Before she steps on set, she curates a playlist to have on deck that makes her feel strong and sexy. Poised and powerful as ever on its glossy front page, one would imagine she simply wakes up like that, but the kind of self-possession that shows up on a cover is more of a practice than a magical natural talent for the 25-year-old. But honored as she was to be shooting for the magazine in back-to-back editions, she had no idea that this time around she was slated to be an SI cover star (along with Kim Kardashian, Maye Musk, and Ciara), making her the first plus-size Asian American woman to hold that distinction.

The second-generation Japanese-American model reflects on her journey of body acceptance.

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The psychologist was criticized for a tweet calling Yumi Nu's Sports Illustrated cover "not beautiful," before announcing plans to leave the platform.

"So I told my staff to change my password, to keep me from temptation, and am departing once again. "The endless flood of vicious [insults] is really not something that can be experienced anywhere else. "I recently stopped accessing Twitter for three weeks as an experiment.

'On behalf of all the hot a** thick bi*ches in the world. We don't give a f*** what you think,' one person wrote.

“Congratulations to you Yumi! You look incredible, confident and proud. Thank you from the bottom of my heart @mj_day and @si_swimsuit family for believing in me. “I never dreamt of this because I didn’t know that I could. And thank you for inspiring women everywhere. “Congratulations Yumi! You look amazing! Perhaps I’ll buy this issue and I’d hope to have an autographed copy,” one fan wrote.

"I have not been able to sleep, breathe or think straight since I found out."

“LOVE YOU so proud of you.” “I have not been able to sleep, breathe or think straight since I found out,” Nu wrote. Talk about a star turn.