Kate Upton: Victoria's Secret Comments Didn't Bother Me (VIDEO)

Kate Upton may have won swimsuit modeling's biggest prize: the cover of Sports Illustrated's annual Swimsuit Issue. But Sophia Neophitou, creative force behind the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, had to go rain on the 19-year-old model's parade, telling the New York Times:

"She's like a footballer's wife, with the too-blond hair and that kind of face that anyone with enough money can go out and buy."

But nobody sasses Upton like that. During an interview with Access Hollywood, Upton responded, "I didn't even try out for the runway show. But also, I don't think that anything she said was that mean."

Really?

"Well, 'football player's wife'... Gisele's a football player's wife -- I'm OK! Gisele's in that category, I'm good."

(We're pretty sure Neophitou was referring to soccer players' wives, not American football. But why argue over semantics?)

Kate added, "It's all good -- she can think that, I can think whatever I want to think about her."

Upton also sounded off on her oft-mentioned curves, which are totally normal in any context except the world of swimsuit modeling. The blonde Midwesterner simply said, "I love my curves. You know, I'm healthy and I think that's what Sports Illustrated represents: healthy, confident women who love their bodies."

Amen, sister. See details about the 2012 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue here and see Kate's cover below.

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Comments

[totallybummed]

10:57 AM on 03/01/2012

Kate Upton said , "I love my curves. You know, I'm healthy and I think that's what Sports Illustrated represents: healthy, confident women who love their bodies." Right. She's too young to understand that it's EXACTLY SI's kind of display that makes regular women hate their bodies - and makes many men think they can expect all women to have Kate Upton's kind of body.

[Joan Reeves]

11:34 AM on 02/25/2012

Note to Kate: Gisele Bundchen is not a footballer's wife. Posh Beckham is a footballer's wife.

[ebbelwoi]

09:43 AM on 02/23/2012

Hmmm, quickly surveying those here that slag off on KU (saggy boobs, fake boobs, average face, no different then WAGs)... and what do we see? Yep, mostly women.

Face it folks, you don't become an international "It Girl" unless you have "It". Which of as any red-blooded guy could tell you, she does in spades. Maybe not everyone's cup of tea, but far, far from average. That is, of course, why she's raking in the $$$s. JMO but Gisele, whatever her experience, looks like a hungry toothpick.

[Salukeitis]

01:49 PM on 02/23/2012

Google Kate Upton and watch her walk the cat walk. Saggy She's fantastic@ You can't take your eyes of those rocking boobs. And when she turms around watch out! What a rear end FANTASTIC. This girl is sex in motion. She's going to be the Hottest.

[Dede Eagleburger]

03:18 PM on 02/23/2012

Well it's not all women, there's a few of us who think she's great!!! She does have "It" and I hope she goes really really far with it!

[jreeves1425]

08:27 AM on 02/23/2012

Seriously...no.

[MANOFCOMMONSENSE]

07:06 AM on 02/23/2012

I'm not a big Gisele fan.. But this girl is no Gisele

[bennett388]

03:51 PM on 02/23/2012

Gisele's got a fowl mouth and likes to blame her husbands football team for loosing the super bowl.

[MANOFCOMMONSENSE]

11:43 PM on 02/23/2012

lol

[burton163]

07:21 PM on 02/22/2012

I usually do not care for this type....blonde, big rack, "curvey", etc. (I'm more of a Zoe Saldana type fan) but this girl definitely has something special about her.

Go to youtube and search "Kate Upton slow motion"

You're welcome.

[thetruthhoits]

04:38 PM on 02/22/2012

Well that bust is paid for but at least she's more meaty than VS models.

[CunningStunts]

04:07 PM on 02/22/2012

Well, she's pretty, and has a nice rack. And the IQ of a houseplant. She'll do well.

[CSKAP]

01:22 PM on 02/22/2012

Really the big difference is, Mark Sanchez is not Tom Brady and never will be!
With that said, she is an attractive young woman.

[scorpioleidy]

01:15 PM on 02/22/2012

There are at least five young ladies, sitting not more than 10 feet down the hall from me, here in my office who look just like her. She's nothing special.

[CSKAP]

01:21 PM on 02/22/2012

Ahem, pardon me a second.
Where is it exactly that you work?
Are they hiring?

[scorpioleidy]

02:16 PM on 02/22/2012

LOL!

[littlepuffycloud]

12:18 PM on 02/22/2012

Ruh roh..is that stubble I spy?

[libwithaclue]

11:42 AM on 02/22/2012

GOPer Cow...................

[Dede Eagleburger]

12:36 PM on 02/22/2012

umm, what??? are you like totally nuts, or did you post on the wrong thread...

[libwithaclue]

12:56 PM on 02/22/2012

What or who are you, her mother? Or might you be a HP moderator? No? Oh, it's Grandma! It's probably past time for your afternoon nap, Grammy, so hit the sheets so the rest of us can have some interesting conversation.

[tissa]

11:05 AM on 02/22/2012

I think what they were trying to say is that she is typical, nothing above your everyday girl you see everywhere in California.

I think they call it a "California Dime".

[bennett388]

03:54 PM on 02/23/2012

Well then, I wish they all could be California Girls!

[Salukeitis]

04:32 PM on 02/23/2012

Your kaboka whatever got zonked How bout kitand kaboodle

[ginadeoliveira2008]

11:05 AM on 02/22/2012

Make her run the catwalk to learn what it means to be granted the respect Giselle has earned in the fashion world.

[Dede Eagleburger]

11:08 AM on 02/22/2012

umm, she was just saying that being compared to Gisele in any way was a huge compliment really...

[Salukeitis]

04:41 PM on 02/23/2012

Now if Brady and Kate were stranded on a pacific isle and giselle was on the cal coast I wonder.

[bennett388]

12:13 PM on 02/22/2012

Don't think she could run the catwalk without beating herself black and blue from the bumpers she's carrying up front. She just walks down the runway and it looks like a jello mold in a 8.5 Richter scale earthquake. Not saying that's all bad either!

[Dede Eagleburger]

12:37 PM on 02/22/2012

OMG...don't laugh, don't laugh, don't...*laughing*

[Highball]

10:39 AM on 02/22/2012

She looks fantastic. She's sexy, she's beautiful. She doesn't seem like the brightest, but she seems nice.

[Dede Eagleburger]

10:52 AM on 02/22/2012

I thought her reply was awesome...why do you say she doesn't seem like the brightest?

[YLS2007]

10:57 AM on 02/22/2012

She does seem like the brightest?

[Highball]

10:59 AM on 02/22/2012

Oh, I had no problem with her response. I thought it was great, too.

I probably shouldn't have said that, honestly. But I think she's great. Let's leave it at that. :)

[Dede Eagleburger]

12:39 PM on 02/22/2012

umm, so?? what does her uncle's job have like anything to do with her at all...??