Kate Upton is graduating to a bigger and brighter future. That means the search for her successor in the swim smoke game has begun. And the contest is so cutthroat, it's beginning to resemble the War of the Five Kings.
Not even a week has gone by since Alexandria Morgan was floated as Kate's successor. Yet this morning I was introduced to a young Insta-smoke named Charlotte McKinney.
That's not a bad thing.
Charlotte and Kate share more in common than the obvious.
"I'm embracing what I have," she told Esquire. "I'm a curvier bombshell with big boobs. I'm not high-fashion. I don't do runway. You won't see me at Fashion Week."
You won't see her at Fashion Week because she doesn't need it. The beach is her runway.
Don't fall in, Charlotte!
It takes a superior model to force us to reconsider the value of overalls.
At 5' 7", Charlotte is shorter than Kate. But she measures up in other arenas, such as her sunny disposition.
Charlotte told TheSkinnyConfidential.com that her favorite cocktail is a vodka/water. She sometimes mixes her vod with coconut water, which finally gives me a reason to try coconut water.
Charlotte is making her way through the modeling world and despite not finishing high school and being far from a Harvard student, she had the balls to still do it. As the poet Shawn Corey Carter once said, you can pay for school, but you can't buy class.
And Charlotte is nothing but class.
Will the new, new Kate Upton please stand up?
Another claimant to the title will no doubt appear a week from now. This summer is just getting started and the War of the Five Kates is already heating up.