Livvy Dunne’s fourth Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue pictorial turned into the spectacle of the year for one small village in Mexico.
As the LSU gymnast-turned-influencer and model told Jimmy Fallon on NBC’s Tonight Show, the picture shoot featuring Dunne standing alongside a team of horses drew some rather hospitable locals.
‘We were in Loretto, Mexico, in a little village in the mountains, and everybody in the town came out and was watching what was going on,’ Dunne said.
The grinning Fallon mused that the locals just wanted to see the horses and not the famed swimsuit model.
At one point, Dunne told Fallon, the villagers made her a pina colada to cool down.
‘Of course,’ Fallon laughed in response.
Livvy Dunne is pictured alongside late-night host Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday night
Dunne visited The Tonight Show to promote several upcoming projects on her horizon
Dunne was promoting her fourth Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition pictorial, which will be on newsstands on May 14
In addition to her Instagram fame, Dunne is known as the girlfriend of Pittsburgh Pirates ace and reigning National League Cy Young winner, Paul Skenes.
But she’s also breaking into acting now as part of Fox’s reboot of the 1990s favorite, Baywatch. Dunne had previously been rejected for a role on HBO’s White Lotus and she was admittedly nervous acting in front of the camera on Baywatch.
‘Gymnastics usually you just go out there and perform on a four inch beam, but this, I have to talk, perform and play somebody else, rather than myself,’ Dunne said, explaining the concept of acting. ‘So it was completely different.’
Unlike White Lotus, where he audition fell short, Dunne said she just had to send in a tape for Baywatch.
‘I had, like, really, no expectation of what was gonna happen,’ she said, adding: ‘I got a call back.’
Prior to her appearance on NBC, she shared some of her upcoming SI pictorial online.
In the viral gallery, Dunne is seen posing against a rugged desert backdrop and Mexican shoreline, wearing a series of bikinis. One viral look features the 23-year-old in a cream-and-white striped bikini, while another showed her in a brown, off-shoulder, one-piece swimsuit.
Brooks Nader and Livvy Dunne attend the Fox Upfront 2026 post party at Quality Bistro
Another look for the SI Swimsuit shoot showed her in an all-brown set, featuring a brown crop top with matching bottoms as she posed alongside some horses.
She capped off the series of photos with a pink and pastel striped bikini, while posing atop some rocks in the desert setting.
Naturally, the photos have been well received, and not just by her male admirers.
Among those in the comment section was WNBA star – and fellow SI Swimsuit model – Sophia Cunningham, who wrote: ‘Loveeeee’.
Similarly, Alix Earle left a comment which read: ‘Beautyyyy’.
Livvy’s older sister, Julz, jokingly wrote: ‘How do all your occupations require you to be on the beach in a swimsuit???’.
Julz, who has often been described as the ‘brains’ behind Livvy’s success, recently sat down with The Daily Mail to tell all about the sisters’ incredible rise.
Dunne has broken into the acting world with a role in the reboot of the 90s classic ‘Baywatch’
Dunne has made a splash in the marketing world after striking up a number of brand deals
Since retiring from gymnastics, Livvy has since become a household name after striking a number of brand deals over the last year.
Notably, she recently collaborated with beer brand Miller Lite, having previously been spotted sipping on the beverage during a number of public sightings.
Together, they released the Miller Tea Time Set – inspired by the ‘spill the tea’ trend on TikTok – with Livvy playing a starring role in the brand’s commercial.
Meanwhile, Dunne’s latest photoshoot comes just weeks after she set pulses racing when collaborating with actress Sydney Sweeney’s new lingerie brand.
Sweeney, the star of season three of ‘Euphoria’ on HBO , launched the intimates brand SYRN earlier this year. While the brand has collaborated with models in the past, none have had the following or cachet of Dunne.
So when she shot some photos of her outfit for this weekend’s Stagecoach country music festival in Coachella Valley, fans noticed the ‘SYRN’ wordmark in the ensemble.
Dunne shot the photos in front of a pink open-top car with a full face of makeup, a white cami top, jean shorts, and the lingerie brand’s boy shorts.
