Sports Illustrated swimsuit model search winner named as SEXY Brazilian Anne De Paula <br /> <br />SPORTS ILLUSTRATED swimsuit issue is one of the most popular of the year - and the magazine have already announced the winner of their Model Search, Anne de Paula, who will appear in the 2018 issue. <br /> <br />Brazilian Anne, 21, found out on Tuesday that she is the first model to have secured a spot in the magazine’s 2018 issue. <br /> <br />The rising star has been in the modelling industry since she was 14, originally wanted to be a gynaecologist. <br /> <br />She was picked by online voters as the winner of Sports Illustrated’s Model Search competition, which sees its winners propelled straight into the “rookie” section of the next edition. <br /> <br />De Paula posed in a neon body paint one-piece in this year’s Swimsuit Issue alongside other Model Search competitors was so overcome with happiness she shed tears of joy when she found out she had won.