Sports Illustrated model Camille Kostek launches scathing attack on body-shamers

Sports Illustrated model and former NFL cheerleader Camille Kostek hit back at nasty body-shamers on social media – and she didn’t mince her words.

Kostek, 34, took to TikTok this week to share a video for her haters, as she filmed a close-up of her face.

She put her hands over her mouth, as she wrote in overlaid text, ‘Me wondering when I’m going to stop opening my phone to losers having conversations about my body.’ 

In the caption, Kostek, who is dating former NFL New England Patriots player Rob Gronkowski, shared another pointed message. 

‘Go outside and get some sun!!’ she wrote.

In the comments section, many left her messages of support, as one person even claimed that she was the ‘hottest woman’ that they’d ever seen.

‘You are prob one of the most naturally pretty girls alive right now. Who cares,’ one person wrote.

Another agreed, ‘Literally the hottest woman on the PLANET!!!!!!’

‘If I could pick a perfect body for myself it would be yours. They can all F off,’ someone else typed.

Kostek’s TikTok video comes just a few months after she appeared on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit runway in late May.

She also starred in the 2026 SI Swimsuit Issue, posing for a sexy photoshoot in Botswana.

Kostek posed in multiple bikinis, leaving little to the imagination.

However, this isn’t the first time that Kostek has hit back at body-shamers in recent years.

In 2019, she responded to haters who told her that she looked ‘gross’ and should ‘cover up’ after she posted a photo of herself sporting a skimpy neon green bikini while on vacation in Cabo San Lucas. 

At the time, she took to Instagram on Wednesday to address the cruel comments about her body that she received in response to the image she shared on social media.

‘I can’t begin to explain how many rude comments I got after I posted this photo about my body. But for the women who I was able to help love who they are more from it, I post without hesitation for myself and for YOU,’ Kostek wrote.

In a series of videos, Kostek opened up about how her bikini photo ‘sparked an uproar of opinions’ about her body – both good and bad.

‘I’ve been sitting on this for a few days, deciding if I was going to share this, and I decided that I’m going to share a little bit of the things that I had seen,’ she said, before posting screengrabs of some of the nasty comments she received on social media.

One person called Kostek’s photo ‘gross,’ while another said she has ‘the largest hip bones’ he had ever seen, among other cruel comments. 

The former NFL cheerleader went on to share a video of herself crying over the comments, explaining in the caption: ‘I was having a weak moment and allowed some of these comments get to me that night.’

She said she had never filmed herself crying before that moment, but she was happy to have the footage to look back on and see how ‘rattled’ she was by the comments.

‘I’m also able to look at that and see myself in so much pain and realize that that was just a small moment in time — and by people I don’t give a f**k about,’ she said.

Kostek explained that while her Instagram page is filled with photos from ‘great times’ in her life and ‘beautiful places’ she has visited, she has days where she gets upset too.

The former New England Patriots cheerleader noted that she doesn’t usually ‘read into any of this,’ but she is happy she did this time.

‘It helps me grow. It helps me have thicker skin, helps remind me what’s important in life, who’s important in life,’ she said.

‘I’m just coming on here and sharing my story from one time because we are our own biggest critics,’ she added.