Tiger Woods Shirtless, Pumping Iron on New Vanity Fair Cover

Celebrity News January 4, 2010 AT 11:07AM
Tiger Woods Shirtless, Pumping Iron on New Vanity Fair Cover Credit: ANNIE LEIBOVITZ

Tiger Woods is photographed shirtless and pumping iron on the February issue of Vanity Fair.

The shot, by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz, was taken before scandal.

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In addition to "raw" and "never-before-seen" photos, the issue features a essay by Pulitzer Prize winner Buzz Bissinger, who explores the 33-year-old golfer's fall from grace.

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"In the end it was the age-old clash of image versus reality...." he writes. "He deluded himself into thinking he could be something that he wasn’t: untouchable. The greatest feat of his career is that he managed to get away with it for so long in public, the bionic man instead of the human one who hit a fire hydrant."

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  • April 25, 2010 - 10:15pm soy

    the picture is okay,i don't consider him as a sexy symbol or anything. however, i can tell he really is a brothaaaaaa. baby, don't hate ladies of another mother.

  • January 14, 2010 - 9:53am fifi

    omg this picture looks so dorky his hairy deformed nipples discust me!! lol Dont quit your day job tiger! Leave the modeling for someone with less hairy nipples.. lol

  • January 11, 2010 - 7:58pm bertha j

    Would he had received all this special treatment if he was a married white man cheating .

  • January 08, 2010 - 4:30pm Benita not who posted earlier

    while I am brown i do not think this is a flattering picture 4 some reason he looks like he is on something. his face is just all wrong 4 me

  • January 07, 2010 - 10:07am Robert

    My God , some of you black people are so racist here...the person at Jan 04 at 11:40 pm speculates that the "old white men were disgusted at Tiger winning"....what a racist and ageist comment and with no proof at all to back it up except for your own sick mind...you disgust me, whoever you are.

  • January 07, 2010 - 12:34am Shavonne

    This picture confirms without a shadow of a doubt the Tiger Woods is 100% African American. He can never deny that side of him ever again.

  • January 06, 2010 - 9:51am GIRL NEXT DOOR

    January 04, 2010 - 3:57pm Pat Says: Boy, some of you people are truly the stupidest I've ever come across. Does a guy have to be handsome to attract a beautiful girl? Are you guys really that shallow and superficial!! Jeeez!!! **************************************** The only reason these fat chicks are saying he's ugly, is because they all hate men period. They feel like he cheated on them. But they have to take Elin's side, because like Elin, they all married the first dunce that showed any interest, and popped out his puppies so they could all become stay at home "mommies".

  • January 06, 2010 - 9:47am TEAM TIGER

    who are you people kidding. He's better looking than you lol. You should take a cue and go run some miles. Maybe if you're lucky, you'll look half as decent as he does. You Go Tiger!!!

  • January 06, 2010 - 6:53am jj

    EWW!! He looks like he has a hernia

  • January 05, 2010 - 6:27pm anon

    Only one word for this picture::: EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

  • January 05, 2010 - 4:22pm xrksx

    Why does his belly button look like a crater hit it? Its freakin MASSIVE!!!

  • January 05, 2010 - 4:22pm davis

    Tiger is one attractive man.Tiger's wife is also attractive.Toni and friends, if Tiger's wife is beautiful he is gorgeous.

  • January 05, 2010 - 3:00pm BB

    Now I know why he had to pay a woman for what he wanted, body ok, but no doubt touched up, that face..yuck!

  • January 05, 2010 - 2:45pm HE LOOKS GOOD THERE!

    HOT HOT HOT!!!! THERE BE PISSED OFF ALL YOU WANT! Tiger is known to be the greatest golfer ever, not the perfect man who's married to the entire public! This is ALL he should be paid for! If you don't like it, don't look up to him in the first place (he never asked you to, you just assume he's perfect so you worship him) and don't like anymore athletes! Before Tiger, there were other scandalous athletes too, so why is it that you still look up to athletes and never learn from it? Don't blame him (them) for your stupidity! They're humans just like us, they're going to be caught doing bad things. They're not paid to be a politician, teacher, pope, minister, or judge. They're paid to be good at their sports! You're all hypocrites, you put one athlete down and then like another who might be caught in his/her own scandal someday. LEAVE THE WOODS FAMILY ALONE SO THEY CAN HEAL!

  • January 05, 2010 - 2:39pm taliba

    Best I've ever seen him look, and I don't even like him. He's probably not going to like it though: he looks like a gorgeous BLACK guy here not that strange name he likes to call himself.

  • January 05, 2010 - 2:35pm christie

    i agree with you davis but as for nina you are crazy how does this man cheating on his wife have anything to do with him being around kids how did you come to that conclusion...some people dont have anything else to do or say and if not then dont say anythinbg at all....stupid people...

  • January 05, 2010 - 2:32pm christie

    i am really so tired of this tiger thing ok he cheated men do it all the time what is the difference he got money and so what get out of the man business and move onto something with more meaning i am sure that there was someone that was killed or raped or something put the energy into something that will make a diofference.....please...

  • January 05, 2010 - 1:51pm davis

    Tiger is one handsome man black asian man.How true black is so beautiful.If only those that see your picture as being ugly looked half as good.Now, some nipple shavers think Tiger should have shaved his nipples.Well,I will keep my thoughts to myself about what I think about a man that shave his nipples or chest.

  • January 05, 2010 - 1:19pm Nina

    Tiger looks like someone who should be on the"no fly" list-- Very sinister and not a very nice person--Not someone who should be allowed around kids-But he has his own plane and go anywhere he wants!

  • January 05, 2010 - 1:03pm Jacqueline Mitchell

    Why did Vanity Fair put that picture on it's cover? He looks like a thug .Ugh!

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