Return of the Iconic Swimsuits

Stars in swimsuits--there's never a wrong time for a list of those. Yes, push down that invasive voice telling you to write another political opinion piece about the decline of democracy and the loss of shared realities--nobody needs another one of those! Instead, bikinis!

This is part of a serries that first examined existing iconic swimsuit lists and then cataloging women that were conspicuously absent from those lists.

Alison Brie

The Community, GLOW, and BoJack Horesman star here unzips her swimsuit to a daring degree. Though there seems to be a few more zippers that need to be tested.

Jenna Lynn Meowri

Online model Meowri, known for her shock top of orange hair, manages to have a hard body and soft curves at the same time. She's also an accomplished athlete--that medal she's holding there is not a prop.

Erika Eleniak

The Playboy model whose contours put Baywatch on the map. The serries original beach babe would later state “I wouldn’t say that it helped me to have a very serious film career but it certainly gets you noticed.”

Carmen Electra

Also a Baywatch & Playboy alum, Electra here *double checks notes* at age 50, is still making a living selling her sexy looks. Though I'm not sure who is paying to go to her OnlyFans since there's already hundreds of images of her nude online. But hey, if it works, more power to her.

Tia Carrere

The Hawaii born actress, singer and model added sizzle to numerous 90's movies. Stripped of all context, you'd never guess that the clip above is the unhappy ending version of the movie Wayne's World.

Barbara Bach

1970's model Bach would play Soviet agent Major Anya Amasova in the Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me. She had the incredibly unsubtle code name XXX. Bach played the part of a Russian so well she later had trouble getting acting work because casting directors didn't think she could play American characters (she's from New York).

Jane Seymour

I am of the generation that grew up watching Seymour as the pioneer feminist in frumpy fully body covering dresses in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, and was later surprised to learn that she rose to fame as Bond girl in Live and Let Die. She's still turning heads decades later--in 2018 she became the oldest woman to appear in Playboy (It's a non-nude pictorial).

Marin Kitagawa

So there are layers here. Anime is so popular that hardcore fan activity such has dressing up like characters from shows, aka cosplay, has gone mainstream. This inspired an anime, My Dress-Up Darling, about a dedicated cosplayer, Marin Kitagawa. Then of course cosplayers started dressing up like Kitagawa, particularly emulating the fan service heavy scene where she gets her measurements taken while wearing a bikini.

Hedi Klum

OK, veteran supermodel and host of a dozen TV shows, age 49, you only get half a point here because that is only half a bikini. What's that? She's been in other swimsuits before? Like, she was on the cover of Sports Illustrated multiple times? Hmmm, I'm not sure I believe you, imaginary person I'm arguing with, do you have any evidence to back that up?

Dua Lipa

Lipa laid out the steps to avoid backsliding with your ex in the song New Rules. Considering she's walking on water, it's fair to say she looks heavenly in her bikini.

Scarlett Johansson

Before becoming Black Widow in n films Johansson was better known for appearing in independent films like 2006's Scoop, a quirky Woody Allen romantic-comedy-cozy-murder-mystery-ghost movie. This was one of three movies that came out that year featuring murder & magicians, and one of two staring Hugh Jackman.