Click through our photo gallery to blew your friend’s mind with your infinite Kate Upton knowledge. (Photo: WENN)
She was born Katherine Elizabeth Upton. (Photo: WENN)
Before becoming a super model, Kade was a competitive equestrienne and even won four national championships. (Photo: Instagram)
Kate Upton is Sports Illustrated’s darling. She was named the mag’s Swimsuit Issue Rookie of the Year in 2011 and has posed for the cover 3 times—in 2012, 2013, and 2017. (Photo: Instagram)
She is one committed model. Kate almost lost her eyesight and hearing during a shoot in Antarctica because of the cold. “My body was shutting down, it was w working so hard to keep warm.” (Photo: Instagram)
After someone mocked her cross necklace at a photoshoot and toke it away from, Kate decided to get a cross tattooed on her finger to have one with her at all time. (Photo: Instagram)
The casting for the VS fashion show infamously said: “We would never use Ms. Upton for a Victoria’s Secret show, she’s too obvious. She’s like a page three girl, or a footballer’s wife, with the too-blond hair.” Kate clearly got the last laugh! (Photo: WENN)
Remember her Super Bowl commercial with Carl’s Jr? Well—it got banned for being too risqué. Sorry, fellas. Kate Upton is too sexy for TV! (Photo: Release)
She’s off the market! Kate has been dating log-time love Justin Verlander, Detroit Tigers baseball star, since 2014. The couple got engaged in 2016 and have been happily married as of November 2017. (Photo: Instagram)
Is no secret that Upton loves to engage in some good old-fashioned puppy love. “Justin is definitely and animal lover, but he is definitely holding me back from my 10 dogs,” she said in an interview. “He is putting a three-dog limit on it.” (Photo: Instagram)
You guessed it right. Being an international super model pays the bills! At 26, her net worth is likely to be well over $10 million—and probably even higher than that! (Photo: WENN)
Kate Upton blew up the Internet doing the Dougie at a Clippers game in 2011—a scene that will never be unseen. But despite the overwhelming embarrassment of the moment, this Michigan-born beauty learned how to make the best of her new-found fame to make herself one of the most in-demand models of the moment.
The world now knows her as the sexy girl on multiple steaming covers of Sports Illustrated. But the beautiful Kate Upton is much more than just risqué bikinis—or lack of them, for that matter.
In honor of her special day, we bring you 10 things you probably didn’t’ know about Kate—from her early days and equestrian, to being rejected by Victoria’s Secret, to her whooping fortune. Click through our photo gallery above to blew your friend’s mind with your infinite Kate Upton knowledge. Happy 26th birthday, beautiful!
