Today she's a Vogue covergirl with a huge following.
But Kate Upton once made a much more low-key appearance on the pages of a magazine - as a shiny faced teenager posing with her horse.
Taken just three years ago, the now 20-year-old pin-up is almost unrecognisable as she hugs her mount Roanie Pony after achieving national success as a rider.
The pictures couldn't be more different to Kate's most recent appearance as a covergirl in Sports Illustrated.
In them Kate appears in a jewel-embellished costume, which features a patterned shirt, oversized gold belt buckle and black Stetson hat.
As she smiles and cuddles up to a horse in a stable Kate couldn't look more wholesome.
And her love of horses wasn't just a passing phase.
The Michigan-born girl was involved with the American Paint Horse Association and was successful at a national level.
She and Roanie Pony won three APHA Reserve World Championships and was named the 13 and Under Reserve All-Around Champion.
The second horse she competed with named Zipped won the 14-18 Western Riding in 2001.
The star placed fourth in the in 14-18 Horsemanship and was world champion14-18 Western Pleasure in 2009.
With her hair aptly scraped back into a ponytail she appears at the 2009 American Junior Paint Horse Association's (AjPHA) Youth World Championship Show at the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas.
In an interview with GQ Magazine last July, the blonde confessed her love for horses and God.
She opened up when speaking about the decisions to get her two tattoos of a horseshoe on her wrist and a small cross on the inside of her finger.
Kate told the men’s publication that she asked herself before getting them: ‘What will I love for the rest of my life?’
But Kate Upton once made a much more low-key appearance on the pages of a magazine - as a shiny faced teenager posing with her horse.
Taken just three years ago, the now 20-year-old pin-up is almost unrecognisable as she hugs her mount Roanie Pony after achieving national success as a rider.
Teenage years: Kate Upton competitively worked
with horses before she was famous in a picture taken for the Paint Horse
Journal when she achieved national success with her horse Roanie Pony
In them Kate appears in a jewel-embellished costume, which features a patterned shirt, oversized gold belt buckle and black Stetson hat.
And her love of horses wasn't just a passing phase.
The Michigan-born girl was involved with the American Paint Horse Association and was successful at a national level.
Giddy up cowgirl! The model appears in a jewel-embellish shirt and Stetson hat
The second horse she competed with named Zipped won the 14-18 Western Riding in 2001.
The star placed fourth in the in 14-18 Horsemanship and was world champion14-18 Western Pleasure in 2009.
With her hair aptly scraped back into a ponytail she appears at the 2009 American Junior Paint Horse Association's (AjPHA) Youth World Championship Show at the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas.
Sex symbol: Kate is a two-time Sports Illustrated cover girl and features on the front of 2013's Swimsuit issue on sale now
She opened up when speaking about the decisions to get her two tattoos of a horseshoe on her wrist and a small cross on the inside of her finger.
Kate told the men’s publication that she asked herself before getting them: ‘What will I love for the rest of my life?’
Forget racing horses! The 20-year-old now sets men's pulses racing
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