Posted Aug 13th 2009 9:32AM by TMZ Staff
Um ... so, one of the big wigs at Sports Illustrated just Twitter-posted some of her personal candid photos of Bar Refaeli from the 2010 Swimsuit Edition shoot ... and they're friggin' ridiculous....

Bar -- who recently broke up with Leonardo DiCaprio -- took the pho ... oh, you don't care ... just click on the gallery.
Filed under: Beauty, Hot Bodies, Photo Galleries, Leonardo DiCaprio
Tags: Bar Rafaeli, BarRafaeli, Sports Illustrated, SportsIllustrated, Swimsuit issue, SwimsuitIssue, Twitter
Posted Mar 4th 2009 12:18PM by TMZ Staff
Southwest Airlines is in big, big trouble -- not just with the FAA, but with a band of angry cyber-geeks pissed about the half-naked bikini model on one of their airplanes.

Ever since SW put Bar Refaeli's Sports Illustrated micro-bikini clad cover shot on a Boeing 737, people have been leaving tons of scathing comments on the Southwest Airlines customer blog page, describing the plane as "a Las Vegas Strip taxi cab" and "a flying porn ad."
But Southwest is standing by their Bar-fly, telling us: "We are proud to have partnered with Sports Illustrated on this promotion," adding that the response has been "about 70% positive, 25% negative and 5% neutral."
Filed under: Hot Bodies
Tags: bar rafaeli, BarRafaeli, southwest airlines, SouthwestAirlines, sports illustrated, SportsIllustrated, swimsuit issue, SwimsuitIssue