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Tori Praver is an American model perhaps best known for her appearances in the 2007-2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She has also done work for Guess, Yamamay, and Liu-Jo. Tori was discovered by Cindy Kauanui of Jet Set Models after appearing in Outside magazine. [Actually, she was discovered on the island of Maui, where she was born, by the photographer Carrll Robilotta of Ki'i Nani Photography, when she was only 11- he told her mother, that Tori should try modeling, because she's got all the looks.] She was on the cover of Cosmopolitan, Glamour and Cover magazines. In addition to working with world class photographers on her Sports Illustrated shoots, she was the object/subject of several Joanne Gair body painting works in these editions.

Growing up, Tori Praver never intended to become a model. In fact, this sun-bleached beach bum had much bigger fish to fry. “I wanted to be a whale trainer at Sea World,” she admits. “I grew up in San Diego and my mom would take me there every week and I always wanted to be the person training the whales.”

In 2007, Tori Praver increased her exposure thanks to her sizzling debut appearance in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Her Memphis-based pictorial afforded her the unique opportunity of posing in the inner sanctum of Graceland as well as in Elvis’s old high school. “We did a shoot on this big, huge giant guitar and I was just laying on it -- naked,” she laughs. “So, interesting situations so far.”