It looks as if the waif-thin, emancipated look made famous by luxury fashion models like Kate Moss is on its way out, making room for the killer curves of the one and only Kate Upton. British Vogue has decided to ring in the New Year with a new outlook on beauty and style, proving that you don’t have to be stick-skinny to be beautiful. In the January 2013 issue, Editor Alexandra Shulman explained, “When I decided to shoot Kate for our first cover of 2013, it was to kick off the year with a young woman who is not a stereotypical fashion model.”

Upton has quickly worked her way up the ranks of the fashion world with numerous spreads in many of today’s top publications— an especially impressive feat considering many models are pigeonholed into one area of modeling. We, for one, can’t wait to see what else this blonde bombshell has up her sleeve (or, as is generally the case with Kate, lack thereof.)