Stassi Schroeder, 38, had already walked once in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit show and came away from that experience feeling invincible. But when she returned to the runway in May 2026, during Miami Swim Week, something changed.
The comments did not take long to arrive: social media users started calling her ‘SpongeBob’ because of the shape of her body. She herself shared it on Page Six Radio, unfiltered: she said the criticism ‘wasn’t wrong’ and that it left her feeling a little insecure, even while sharing the runway with names like Alix Earle, Tiffany Haddish and Bethenny Frankel.
Today she is a mother of two, Hartford and Messer, and has rebuilt her career after leaving Bravo in 2020. But now she wonders whether it is worth returning to that stage a third time. What would you do? 🧽💔
