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Brooks Nader returns to Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue for 2025 in barely-there gold bikini: ‘Year 7!’

Brooks Nader will once again grace the pages of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Sports Illustrated/ Ben Watts

She’s making waves.

Brooks Nader, 29, will return to the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue for its 2025 edition with a sizzling photoshoot in Bermuda, marking her seventh appearance in the glossy.

Captured by Ben Watts, the blond bombshell — who was one of the 2023 cover models alongside Martha Stewart — glowed in a barely-there metallic gold bikini from Norma Kamali.

The star got her start in the glossy after she won a casting call in 2019. Brooks Nader/Instagram

She’s had a whirlwind year, recently teaming up with Hudson Jeans on a denim collection. Greg Swales

“From ‘Dancing with the Stars’ to launching her latest collection for Hudson Jeans, @brooksnader moves with purpose,” Sports Illustrated Swimsuit wrote on Instagram today, sharing the image from her sultry shoot.

She reshared the post, writing, “Year 7!!”

Fellow models and influencers took to the comment section, hyping up the latest celebrity to join the 2025 issue — others include Hunter McGrady, who was shot in Switzerland, and Alix Earle, who was lensed in Jamaica.

“Oh wowzaaaa,” wrote college gymnast and influencer Livvy Dunne. Meanwhile, DJ and content creator Xandra Pohl said, “this bangs.”

The model got divorced shortly before the 2024 Sports Illustrated Swim issue hit newsstands and has since been linked to Tom Brady and her “DWTS” partner. WireImage

The 2025 issue hits newstands in May. Getty Images

Discovered by modeling agency Wilhelmina while enrolled at Tulane University, Nader dreamed of appearing in the magazine, but her agency refused to send her to casting.

However, she proved them wrong when she won the SI Swim Search open casting call in 2019, securing a spot in the publication’s 2020 issue — and later sent them her cover issue.

Her last appearance was for the 2024 “Legends” photoshoot — and has quite a whirlwind year since, dyeing her hair blond, getting divorced from husband Billy Haire, entertaining a fling with Tom Brady and later sparking an on-and-off relationship with her “DWTS” partner Gleb Savchenko.

The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue 2025 hits newsstands this May.