 From the magazine's first transgender cover model, Lena Bloom, to Halima Aydin, the first woman wearing a hijab, and this year, our very own Gayle King. Everyone, Gayle King is in the house. I honestly thought when I heard that Sports Illustrated wanted to talk to me that I was being punked. Of all the things in my life, all the things in my life, being a model is not one of them. You happy, Gayle? Yes. Gorgeous.