"I've still got skills. I've got mad skills! I'm still
motivated to swim," says the world's sexiest athlete Amanda Beard in
the August issue of FHM, adding, "the one place I feel completely at
home is in the water. I might as well be a mermaid. I've been doing it
for 20 years now, and it still feels good, so yeah, my goal is to
definitely compete at the Beijing Olympics in 2008."
Not only is she the world's sexiest athlete according to FHM, she's the "Tiger Woods of swimming." She gets a cool $15,000 per speaking engagement, has signed a $1 million contract to advertise Speedo's Axcelerate line, has endorsement deals with Oroweat Bread, Red Bull and Penta water, and a signature line of fragrance products - resulting in potential earnings of $100 million by 2010.
"I've been asked to do a couple of reality shows. I'm not really ready for that kind of stuff yet, because it cuts into my training, and I don't want to be known as a 'has-been.' The Surreal Life wanted me. I think it's a hilarious show and I love watching it, but wait until I have some crazy meltdown at a race first."
As for her relationship with NASCAR's Carl Edwards, Beard says, "I had liked NASCAR for a long time, but obviously while I was dating Carl I had more of an emotional attachment to it, more of a 'please don't crash and die' kind of attachment. Like, when I'm swimming, and I'm competing, I don't even care. I'm completely calm, but when I was with Carl, I was a nervous wreck every race. I don't run the risk of dying while I'm swimming. So after the race, I was always like, 'OK, it was a good race because you're alive.'" As for the break-up, Beard says, "I'm a really laid-back, chilled-out person. I'm a surfer girl from Southern California, and when you date a race car driver, there's so much stress. Race-car drivers are too intense for me."
Regarding her reign as the world's sexiest athlete, Beard tells FHM, "I can't stop laughing every time I hear someone call me the World's Sexiest Athlete. I don't look in the mirror and go, 'Wow, I'm sexy.'"
Beard is featured on the cover of FHM and inside the pages of the magazine in an 8-page photo portfolio by Douglas Bizzaro and Elizabeth Moss.
Not only is she the world's sexiest athlete according to FHM, she's the "Tiger Woods of swimming." She gets a cool $15,000 per speaking engagement, has signed a $1 million contract to advertise Speedo's Axcelerate line, has endorsement deals with Oroweat Bread, Red Bull and Penta water, and a signature line of fragrance products - resulting in potential earnings of $100 million by 2010.
"I've been asked to do a couple of reality shows. I'm not really ready for that kind of stuff yet, because it cuts into my training, and I don't want to be known as a 'has-been.' The Surreal Life wanted me. I think it's a hilarious show and I love watching it, but wait until I have some crazy meltdown at a race first."
As for her relationship with NASCAR's Carl Edwards, Beard says, "I had liked NASCAR for a long time, but obviously while I was dating Carl I had more of an emotional attachment to it, more of a 'please don't crash and die' kind of attachment. Like, when I'm swimming, and I'm competing, I don't even care. I'm completely calm, but when I was with Carl, I was a nervous wreck every race. I don't run the risk of dying while I'm swimming. So after the race, I was always like, 'OK, it was a good race because you're alive.'" As for the break-up, Beard says, "I'm a really laid-back, chilled-out person. I'm a surfer girl from Southern California, and when you date a race car driver, there's so much stress. Race-car drivers are too intense for me."
Regarding her reign as the world's sexiest athlete, Beard tells FHM, "I can't stop laughing every time I hear someone call me the World's Sexiest Athlete. I don't look in the mirror and go, 'Wow, I'm sexy.'"
Beard is featured on the cover of FHM and inside the pages of the magazine in an 8-page photo portfolio by Douglas Bizzaro and Elizabeth Moss.