Hilary Duff is one of the covers of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue 2026. Todd Owyoung\/NBC via Getty Images<\/p>\n
It\u2019s Hilary, in the buff.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Hilary Duff was announced as one of four cover stars<\/a> of the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.<\/p>\n She made a splash<\/a> in a plunging white one-piece Oye swimsuit, lensed by Kat Irlin in South Caicos.<\/p>\n The singer, 38, wore her blond hair in waves with bronzed Charlotte Tilbury makeup.<\/p>\n While Duff is making her debut in the splashy magazine, it isn\u2019t the first time she\u2019s posed without clothing; In 2022, she stripped down for Women\u2019s Health Magazine<\/a>, wearing nothing but her multiple tattoos.<\/p>\n Duff, 38, is having a blockbuster year, having released her first album in over a decade earlier this year. Getty Images for The Daily Front Row<\/p>\n She follows in the footsteps of 2025 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover stars Salma Hayek and Livvy Dunne. hilaryduff\/Instagram<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m proud of my body. I\u2019m proud that it\u2019s produced three children for me. I\u2019ve gotten to a place of being peaceful with the changes my body has gone through,\u201d she said at the time. She has since welcomed a third daughter, Townes, in 2024 with husband Matthew Koma. \u201cI also want people to know a makeup artist was there putting glow all over my body and someone put me in the most flattering position.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s already been a blockbuster year for the former Disney Channel star.<\/p>\n Also covering the magazine are Alix Earle, Tiffany Haddish and Nicole Williams English, following in the footsteps of the 2025 cover stars: Salma Hayek<\/a>,\u00a0 Livvy Dunne<\/a>,\u00a0Jordan Chiles<\/a>\u00a0and model Lauren Chan.<\/p>\n Inside the 2026 issue, Bethenny Frankl, Alix Earle, Hannah Berner and more pose for the glossy. WireImage<\/p>\n This is Duff\u2019s debut for Sports Illustrated. Getty Images for TIME<\/p>\n Within the pages of the highly anticipated glossy this year are Bethenny Frankel<\/a>, Hannah Berner<\/a>, \u201cLove Island USA\u201d star Olandria Carthen<\/a>, Alix Earle<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n Duff is staging her comeback as a pop star,\u00a0releasing her sixth studio album, \u201cLuck \u2026 Or Something\u201d in January 2026 \u2014\u00a0her first in more than a decade \u2014\u00a0after returning to music<\/a>\u00a0in late 2025 with the singles \u201cMature\u201d<\/a> and \u201cRoommates.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI had my husband as producer and I made the music I wanted to make,\u201d Duff told Sports Illustrated. \u201cIt represents who I am now, which is complicated and mature, but dressed in sequins.\u201d<\/p>\n The star will kick off her world tour<\/a> next month, and if her on-stage performance<\/a> looks are any indication, fans can expect Duff to turn up the heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hilary Duff is one of the covers of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue 2026. Todd Owyoung\/NBC via Getty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[45891,236,91,88,3976,75272,216,99294,48951],"class_list":["post-638664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bikinis","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-fashion","tag-hilary-duff","tag-music","tag-page-six-style","tag-sports-illustrated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}