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ESPN’s “The Body Issue” is the last time you’ll see Gina Carano without her clothes for a while, she thinks.

“I’m a very shy individual,” she said. “I did like it, but I don’t really show off my body that much. It was a shocker. My whole family was like, ‘OK, OK, is that it? No more.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, no more, no more.’

“I did love being a part of it because it was such a unique issue with a bunch of different people’s bodies. I’m a curvy person. I’ve got meat on me. Maybe, hopefully, little girls out there see my body and can be inspired by that, too. It gives them something else to look at.

“It was all good. But I’m just a shy person, so it’s a little bit hard. It was beautiful, but I’m shy. No more. I’m going to keep my clothes on for a while, I think.”

Video via The MMA News, Story via MiddleEasy.com

Fanhouse got a hold of another picture of Gina Carano in ESPN’s “Body Issue.” They definitely saved the better pic for the cover. After the jump, a close up of Randy’s ear. He better hope he never needs a hearing aid.

ESPN The Magazine’s “Body Issue” will hit newsstands on Oct. 9 with six different cover models/athletes. As seen above, Gina Carano, in the best shape we’ve seen her, will grace the cover along with half naked versions of Serena Williams, Adrian Peterson, Dwight Howard, NASCAR’s Carl Edwards and amputee triathlete Sarah Reinertsen. Sports by Brooks has the Williams and Howard covers posted. No offense to them or the three others, but wouldn’t ESPN sell a lot more copies if they put that picture of Gina on all the covers? Seriously, who needs to see Carl Edwards in anything besides his race suit? Oh well, at least one of the six isn’t Randy Couture’s ear.

HT: Cagewriter

“If you start following the female mma fighters, Gina pops out pretty noticeably. I thought it was a fascinating combination of appearance and activity… I’d been wanting to make a spy action film for a while, but hadn’t really determined what I was going to bring to it that would distinguish it from the traditional approach. Then I thought, ‘Why don’t I just build it around her? She can actually break people in half.’ I was interested in doing something ultra-realistic…My desire is for it to be a very realistic portrayal of somebody who gets hired, as these people do, by the government, to go and perform certain duties that it would be inappropriate to give to the military. That could be anything from a hostage-grab to surveillance to an actual killing…a combination of a Bond movie and Point Blank. more on the scale of From Russian With Love than, you know, Quantum Of Solace… Something where the characters and the story are as prominent as the action stuff.”

—Film director Steven Soderberg explaing to Empire why he chose Gina Carano for the lead role in his upcoming movie Knockout

Sounds like Gina definitely has her work cut out for her on this one.

Speaking of Gina, Fanhouse is reporting she will be appearing “semi-nude” in ESPN Magazine’s “Body Issue” which is set to hit newsstands on October 9. I don’t know about her acting, but I’m pretty sure she’s capable of pulling that off quite well.

Image via Esther Lin for Showtime. Knockout tip via ESPN.

Above is a photo ESPN the Magazine took and subsequently printed of Jeff Monson vandalizing the Washington state Capitol that landed him in some pretty serious trouble with the law. The Olympian has the details.

Prosecutors have charged Olympia mixed-martial-arts champion and avowed anarchist Jeff Monson with first-degree malicious mischief based on photographs published in a December edition of ESPN The Magazine that showed him spray-painting an anarchist symbol on the state Capitol, court papers state.

A warrant for Monson’s arrest was filed today in Thurston County Superior Court. Monson, 37, is charged with first-degree malicious mischief, a Class B felony carrying a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine.

The graffiti cost $19,000 to clean up, court papers state.

Not that I condone criminal activity by any means, but if you’re going to break the law, wouldn’t the first item on your pre-crime checklist be something along the lines of making sure no one is around to take a picture of you committing the crime???

If you look past the color of his skin, bald head, beard, gold teeth, inked-up muscles – on top of muscles – and past the look of fearlessness that evokes fear in those who catch his gaze, you will find that Kimbo Slice lives a life of stark contrasts. In this week’s ESPN The Magazine cover story “Not Quite What You Were Thinking”, Dan Le Batard takes a close look at the YouTube legend and reveals that beyond his scary exterior Kimbo Slice is a thoughtful friend, loving dad and a budding entrepreneur.

This issue is on newsstands today, Wednesday, May 21.

ESPN The Magazine cover story “Not Quite What You Were Thinking” featuring Kimbo

Love him or hate him, Kimbo is a star in the making, and it’s not hard to see why.