Sunshine State beauty Carolyn Murphy is the 2005 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover model, the first all-American girl to land the front page since, well, last century. (The last U.S. citizen to win the competitive cover spot was Californian Rebecca Romijn in 1999.)<\/P><\/p>\n
The 31-year-old blue-eyed blonde is a native of Panama City, Fla. The high-fashion runway model is best known for replacing Elizabeth Hurley as the face of Est\ufffde Lauder cosmetics. She made her acting debut in the 1999 film Liberty Heights. <\/P><\/p>\n
Other models featured in the issue include tennis star Venus Williams, Olympians Jennie Finch and Amanda Beard and 19-year-old Alicia Hall, winner of NBC’s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model Search series. Murphy is making her second appearance in the SI swimsuit issue. The magazine is on newsstands today; the cover photo was taken on Kamalane Cay in the Bahamas by fashion photographer Jeff Olson.<\/P><\/p>\n
By C\ufffdsar G. Soriano, USA TODAY<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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