Carol Alt, a former Sports Illustrated model, recently posed for the cover of Galore magazine. The 53-year-old dished on fashion, her health secrets and Kate Upton. Alt was dubbed "The Face" and helped pave the way for models like the 21-year-old Upton.
In her hayday, Alt posed for over 500 magazines, was featured in numerous campaign ads and landed the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1982. During her interview with Galore, the "original supermodel" revealed beauty secrets - she eats raw foods; her thoughts on the industry - she believes a models career is short lived nowadays; and how she feels about Upton.
The blonde bombshell has been taking the modeling industry by storm. She has landed on numerous magazine covers, has appeared in a ton of ads and even landed a few acting gigs. It seems like the world is captivated by Upton, except Alt.
"I think Kate is a product of great media hype," she said. "Without Sports Illustrated, I'm not sure she would've made it in the industry as a high fashion model because she is more of a large size model."
"And even if I've seen her in person, and I don't think she's in any way fat or overweight or anything. She is just more large size than fashion models are," Alt continued. "I think Kate is very good at hmmm, how do I put it? She's engaging. She comes to the set prepared to work, and in a good mood, she engages her client, and she looks at herself as a business."
Upton is known for her curvy figure and the model has said countless times that she is proud of her shape and she surely isn't afraid to flaunt it. Alt did give Upton some props telling Galore that she admires how the supermodel has handled her image.
"To expand more on that thought, what I'm trying to say is: after she got herself into Sports Illustrated she wasted no time," Alt said. "She put together a team of people, agents, managers and publicists that were ready to go regardless of whether or not she got the cover. They were willing to take the chance. Once she got the cover she was already in a position to move forward. Of course, the cover was just a fluke. Because nobody knows who gets the cover. But she looks at herself as a business, and I admire that."
