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"  What&amp;#039;s it mean to suffer for fashion? Ask Sports Illustrated&amp;#039;s swimsuit models, and they&amp;#039;ll tell you it&amp;#039;s standing naked, being painted for over a day. &amp;quot;My body paint took 15 and a half hours,&amp;quot; Cris Urena, a Swimsuit issue rookie, told Cosmopolitan.com at the New York celebration for the issue which is on stands now. Urena had a swimsuit from the 1960s recreated on her, and after 18 hours in it, she still wasn&amp;#039;t ready to come clean. &amp;quot;I just didn&amp;#039;t want to take it off,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;re like, &amp;#039;OK, let&amp;#039;s take it off&amp;#039; and I&amp;#039;m like &amp;#039;Nooo! Can I just go to dinner?&amp;#039;&amp;quot; For body paint, &amp;quot;you can&amp;#039;t have any hair wherever they paint it!&amp;quot; Urena says. So just a bikini wax won&amp;#039;t do it. &amp;quot;I had to shave my back and my stomach and all of my bum.&amp;quot; The result may be glam, but the process isn&amp;#039;t. The models hang out &amp;quot;with stuff taped on you,&amp;quot; says rookie Lauren Mellor, while the team airbrushes. And for Mellor, one awkward run-in did happen. &amp;quot;It was about five in the morning, and I was stark naked,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;[Rookie model] Hannah Ferguson got lost, and she just walked into the room while I was laying there.&amp;quot; But every minute pays off. &amp;quot;When you see the whole process \u2014 from how they started to all the little bits and bulbs that they add on \u2014 by the end of it, even though you&amp;#039;re tired, it&amp;#039;s 100 percent worth it,&amp;quot; says Mellor. Beauty goes beneath the skin for Sports Illustrated models, too. &amp;quot;When you go for a casting for the first time, they don&amp;#039;t actually make you wear a bathing suit or anything,&amp;quot; SI Swimsuit legend Petra Nomacova says. &amp;quot;They just get to know you.\u00A0Normally for fashion work, they would make you try bathing suits, see how you look like but for SI, they just have a conversation with you to and get to know you as a human being.&amp;quot; Human beings that also happen to look radiant in bikinis!\u00A0 Photo credit: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images Follow Alyssa on Twitter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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