SI’s Jimmy Traina was nice enough to link to our Kate Upton Cheeseburger-stravaganza in this morning’s Hot Clicks. This caused three things to happen:

1. Happy clapping
2. A statistically-unnecessary-but-socially-correct linkback (enjoy those hits, Monster Sports Conglomerate)
3. Me watching the video of Kate’s Beach Bunny 2012 swimwear shoot provided by the HotClicks, googling “Kate Upton” for twenty minutes and discovering the rest of the shoot we previewed on a Saturday back in January.

So at the risk of burying you in barely-related-to-sports Kate Upton posts, here are nearly two dozen shots from the Beach Bunny “Deep Blue” campaign, a video of Kate in motion to stave off those “meh, photoshop’d” trolls, and a preview of her appearance in this year’s Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.

Enjoy. I hope it causes

1. Happy clapping

(but not like that)

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Normally With Leather takes the weekends off, adopting a borderline-religious “the Internet can go f**k itself” stance about updating on Saturdays. Normally.

Enter: a preview of Kate Upton’s first swimsuit shoot (swimshoot?) of 2012 for Beach Bunny. If you need a deeper explanation, at one point she’s wearing a tiny bikini with thigh-high tube socks. I don’t know from what wonderful part of my brain these pictures sprung, but I didn’t want to wait until Monday morning to show them to you. Also, I’m pretty sure it was near the bottom.

Larger versions of some of the photos are available by clicking (or doing that “view image” thing when they break our columns), and obviously the second the full shoot goes online I will send them along. If you want them to be really great, don’t click through and just think about what they’ll look like until Monday morning. On second thought don’t do that. I think that’s how David Carradine died.

Anyway, happy weekend, everybody.

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Early last month we shared with you a 55-image strong gallery of Kate Upton in her underwear at the circus, modeling the entirety of the LOLA Cruise 2012 Collection. Some of the comments, as we’ve come to expect, read like this:

While nearly every professionally-shot photo that appears on the Internet or magazines is touched up in some way these days, the implication here, as it has been before, is that Sports Illustrated model and America’s Best Girl™ Kate doesn’t look in real life like she does in these photos.

To disprove that implication, I present to you the live-action video from the LOLA Cruise shoot, courtesy of my favorite place to watch the Mr. Skin Minute, Egotastic. You can still claim that it’s all about angles, or that the black and white footage washes out 19-year old girl’s imperfections, but I think a more realistic theory is that she’s perfect and you should shut up.

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Today, With Leather readers, is one of those wonderful days when I get to share with you a brand new Kate Upton photoshoot. This one is for the LOLA Cruise 2012 Collection, and the pictures are so good I am going to buy a gross of swimsuits and leave them to rot in a storage unit somewhere just to say how grateful I am to the designers.

What you need to know:

1. Kate Upton was once in the “Sports Illustrated” and swimming can be a sport, so this counts as sports.

2. The gallery features Kate modeling every swimsuit in the collection, and she makes sure to give you a clear view of the front and a clear view of the back, so you’ll have an educated opinion on what to purchase and/or pass out and wake up with your credit cards maxed out.

3. Near the end of the collection it stops being about swimsuits and turns into circus cosplay, which is still not great for animals, but is a step up from sexily milking a cow.

4. Clicking the pictures takes you to a bigger version. You should click every single one.

Hopefully you’ve ignored this list and are already clicking through. The gallery comes to you by way of our friends at Popaholic, so please take a moment to patronize them when you’re done, uh, patronizing yourself.

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