Report: Natalie Gulbis in Next Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue at BetLM

Natalie Gul­bis will be fea­tured in the 2012 Sports Illus­trated Swim­suit Issue, accord­ing to a report from an unlikely source.

The source? Gul­bis’ good friend Cristie Kerr. Post­ing on Twit­ter, Kerr wrote: “Look for (Gul­bis) in the SI swim­suit issue com­ing out soon! Body painting!”

Body paint­ing? Assum­ing Kerr is cor­rect in what she tweeted, then Gul­bis won’t even be wear­ing a swim­suit in the swim­suit issue, she’ll be nude – but with body paint­ing cre­at­ing the illu­sion of a swim­suit. (See the Body Paint­ing sec­tion of SI.com’s Swim­suit 2011 fea­ture to see how it works – not nec­es­sar­ily safe for work).

Gul­bis’ appear­ance in the 2012 Sports Illus­trated swim­suit edi­tion has not yet been con­firmed by Gul­bis her­self, nor by SI.

Gul­bis has famously posed for bikini pics in the past, both for her own annual cal­en­dars (which she stopped doing a few years ago), and for mag­a­zines. Gul­bis’ first wall cal­en­dar was released in 2004 and was con­sid­ered too hot for the USGA – the gov­ern­ing body banned the calendar’s sale at the 2004 U.S. Women’s Open. Later in 2004, Gul­bis appeared in a racy photo shoot for FHM magazine.

SI’s annual swim­suit issue usu­ally comes out in Feb­ru­ary, so look for Gul­bis’ appear­ance then (but just to reit­er­ate: there is no con­fir­ma­tion yet). If you can’t wait to see Gul­bis in a swim­suit (or what appears to be a swim­suit, any­way), check out our Natalie Gul­bis Glam­our Shots gallery, which includes a few of her bikini pics.

(Photo: /from the 2005 Gul­bis calendar)