Camille Kostek didn’t spend nearly 20 years training as a dancer to get an NFL spot.
The model, who met her boyfriend, former NFL tight end Rob Gronkowski, while he was a Patriots cheerleader in 2015, talked about her time with the Patriots and what their relationship was ostensibly like. I recalled what it looked like.
“When people hear you’re an NFL cheerleader, they might think you’re just trying to date an athlete. It’s hard to get a boyfriend when you have to train as a dancer for 17 years.” Kostec said in the cover interview of the magazine’s May/June 2024 issue. maxim magazine.
The 32-year-old, who retired her poms for good to pursue a career in entertainment, models a white button-up shirt and matching colored underwear on the cover, and stuns in a series of sultry looks in other shots. And so.
Kostek was a Patriots cheerleader when Gronkowski won his first Super Bowl with the Patriots in February 2015.
The “Free Guy” actress, who started dancing at age 3, joined the Patriots’ cheerleading squad in 2013 and appeared on the cover of the cheerleaders’ annual swimsuit calendar, which was photographed in St. Lucia.
“On a surface level, someone reads my short bio, or is asked what I do and I say I’m a model or TV presenter, or learns that I’m famous for posing in a bikini. I get the feeling that they feel that way when they are asked about it. They may be quick to judge,” Kostek told Maxim.
“But the reason I was drawn to it was because [modeling] In the first place, it wasn’t because I wanted to pose in a bikini, but because I love the skin I’m in. Even when I was having a hard time loving it. Thankfully, advertising has evolved, but back then it was hard to spot a girl with freckled skin or even see a girl’s boobs hanging out of a bikini top. It was fascinating, natural and beautiful to me.I wanted to meet myself or someone similar to me. [friends] In a magazine. ”
Kostek explained that she believes that “rejection is a change in direction” when it comes to her career.
“You have to accept who you are. The sooner you believe that and get into that mindset, the more smoothly everything in your life will flow: your health, yourself, your relationships, your career. “It will be,” she said.
“My first big TV show was ‘Wipeout’ when TBS rebooted it.” [in 2021]”
Kostek is currently concentrating on modeling, acting, and hosting, and will appear in the 2024 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit magazine, which will be released in May, for the seventh consecutive year.
“I hate being smug. I think I get bored easily, so I’m always trying to find new things,” she said. “Acting is very scary for me right now, because I’m a TV presenter and I’m used to speaking directly to the camera. Embodying a character and pretending the camera isn’t there is still something new for me. But I love it.”
Kostek also said he has “Dancing with the Stars” on his 2024 vision board.
What about Gronkowski? The future Fall of Fame tight end called his career permanent after the 2021 season and moved on to broadcasting.
He first retired in March 2019, then returned to the Buccaneers with partner Tom Brady a year later, and the duo won another Super Bowl in February 2021.
Gronkowski and Kostek participated in the Boston Marathon, with the four-time Super Bowl champion serving as the race’s grand marshal.
The couple attended a Red Sox-Guardians game that same weekend, and Gronkowski spiked a football on the mound before throwing out the first pitch against Fenway.
