Our Hot 100 Cover Girl Olivia Culpo is a natural-born winner.
“No, not at all,” Culpo tells me with a laugh when I ask whether the photo was spontaneous. “I thought it was so funny because it was so extra.” We are speaking after she has just returned home to Los Angeles from the desert music festival, which has become a pilgrimage for anyone with an Instagram following of over 1,000. Culpo is approaching four million. “Basically, I have to think of a place where I can go, and [my friend] takes 50 pictures, and then one is good enough,” she says. “This is a highlight reel, and it is a creative outlet. [Instagram] is not real life.”
Not much of Culpo’s life seems real these days. Since winning Miss Universe in 2012, the radiant brunette has seized that platform to build a multifaceted career spanning fashion, entertainment, and entrepreneurship, fostered by the aspirational image she cultivates on social media.
She designed a women’s collection with the retail brand Express, which launched this year with four billboards on Times Square. She has a bevy of new beauty and movie projects, one of them a lead in a romantic comedy, on the horizon. She cannot disclose much yet, but she does share that she recently shot for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue on location in Australia, her second appearance in the issue.
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