Livvy Dunne Slams New York Times for a controversial title “ Sex Sells ”

The former gymnast LSU Livvy Dunne still does not leave the New York Times for a controversial story of 2022 on her which used a title which included the expression “Sex Sells”.

THE November 2022 articleEntitled “The new endorsements for university athletes are surfaced an old concern: sex sells”, described Dunne as “a little blonde with a bright smile and a tonic physique of a gymnast”. The article continued to assert this company of name, image and resemblance in female university sports “rewards traditional female desirability for athletic excellence”.

Dunne spoke out against the newspaper in an interview on “What is your story?” podcast. She recalled that the staff of the newspaper had told her to wear the outfit they ended up putting the damn title.

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March 7, 2025; Red stick, the United States; LSU Tigers Olivia Dunne looks during the competition against the Bulldogs of Georgia at the Maravich Center. (Images Stephen Lew-Imagn)

“They came to our gymnastics installation in LSU, took pictures of me. They said:` `Wear your team outfit, put a leotaucorps ” and they took a picture of me standing in front of the beam, like any gymnast, then they exploded it on the screen and put the title,` `sex sex ”, alleged on the podcast.

“Okay, well, you have just come in the installation and I took pictures of myself in our outfit issued by the team and exploded it on a screen … So I said to myself:” Okay, well, it’s crazy. “And there were obviously a lot of reactions to the New York Times because of this.”

Dunne then told how she made fun of the New York Times on social networks for the design decision, and ended up obtaining an illustrated sports modeling offer.

“I decided that I was going to put the same photo as they published and subtitled” Sex Sells “on my Instagram story and writing” Au New York Times, is it too? “Because, come on, you know what you are doing.

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March 7, 2025; Red stick, the United States; LSU Tigers Olivia Dunne during the meeting against the Bulldogs of Georgia at the Maravich Center. (Images Stephen Lew-Imagn)

“And then people loved it. They were like it was so great because no, it’s not too much. You are in your outfit issued by the team, which is a leotard for gymnasts. There were a lot of positive comments from this. So, Sports Illustrated tied my hand. I was so excited about it. It was always a dream.

Dunne has already spoken out against the newspaper for the play.

During an appearance on the “Podcast Full Send” in the summer of 2023, she called the play “BS”, and said that the journalist asked her “strange” and “strange” questions.

“It was full bs. I mean, they called me on the phone in November and they told me that they were going to write on my achievements and all that and I said to myself:” Ok, that’s for sure. It’s great. The New York Times. It’s huge “,” she said.

“The interviewer called me and he asked me very strange questions. It was a fairly weird formulation,” she said. “It was like,” then, how it is a little little blonde gymnast that is doing so well with Nile. “I said to myself:” Why am I’m little and blonde “. You can just ask me questions about Nile without you having to use these strange ways to say it.”

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The LSU Tigers Olivia Dunne gymnast presented during the dry gymnastics championship in Gas South Arena. (Dale Zanine-USA today Sports)

Dunne has been one of the most followed athletes on social networks since she joined LSU. It has more than 8 million followers on Tiktok and 5.4 million others on Instagram. She helped Tigers in a national championship in 2024, but her last year with LSU derailed due to an injury.

Since then, she has been seen encouraging her boyfriend, Paul Skenes, while he has made waves in MLB with the Pirates of Pittsburgh.

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