MJ Day is an American magazine editor who is the editor-in-chief of the
''Sports Illustrated'' Swimsuit Issue, which she has led since 2014.
Life and career
Day grew up in
Ocean County, New Jersey
Ocean County is a List of counties in New Jersey, county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the southernmost county in the New York metropolitan area. The county borders the Atlantic Ocean on the east and in terms of total area is the ...
, and graduated from the
University of Mary Washington
University of Mary Washington (UMW) is a public liberal arts university in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Established in 1908 as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Fredericksburg, the institution later became known as Fredericksbu ...
in 1997. She was an intern for the fashion magazine ''
InStyle
''InStyle'' is an American monthly women's fashion magazine founded in 1994. It was published in the United States by Dotdash Meredith, and started originally as a brand extension of ''People (magazine), People'' before carving out its own ide ...
'' before being hired as an editorial assistant for the ''Sports Illustrated'' Swimsuit Issue in 1998.
In 2013, she oversaw the launch of the website ''Swim Daily'', which promotes the swimsuit issue and its models year round. She became the swimsuit issue's top editor the following year.
During her tenure, the swimsuit issue has introduced a greater range of body types and placed a focus on body positivity and women's empowerment.
was the issue's first
plus-size model in 2015.
In the 2017 issue,
Nina Agdal wore a tank top reading "A Woman Does Not Have to Be Modest to be Respected", while in 2018, models chose their own words and messages to display in body paint in one spread.
was the magazine's first openly
transgender
A transgender (often shortened to trans) person has a gender identity different from that typically associated with the sex they were sex assignment, assigned at birth.
The opposite of ''transgender'' is ''cisgender'', which describes perso ...
cover model in 2021.
References
External links
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Living people
People from Ocean County, New Jersey
American magazine editors
American women magazine editors
University of Mary Washington alumni
Sports Illustrated people