She’s best known as a champion Olympic swimmer.
But Ariarne Titmus showed off her glamorous side in a sizzling cover shoot for Stellar magazine over the weekend.
The four-time gold medal winner, 25, ditched her usual look as she rocked a revealing black sleeveless cut-out bodysuit.
Wearing her long hair slicked back for an edgy look, she complemented the racy ensemble with a soft black leather jacket and a pair of stilettos.
For accessories, Ariarne chose a chunky gold necklace and a matching bracelet.
She completed the smouldering look with a glamorous palette of makeup, including dark mascara and a smoky eyeshadow.
Ariarne Titmus showed off her glamorous side in a sizzling cover shoot for Stellar magazine over the weekend
The four-time gold medal winner, 25, ditched her usual look and rocked a revealing black cut-out bodysuitÂ
During her interview with the magazine, Ariarne opened up about the reason she quit swimming in a move that recently shocked the sporting world – revealing she did it for love.
She dropped her career bombshell almost a month ago with the vague explanation that ‘some things in my life that have always been important to me are just a little bit more important to me now than swimming’.
The Olympian has now clarified exactly what those things are: her new love Mac Powell, and her family. Â
‘In my personal life – and this was really the crux of the decision – you have to be quite a selfish person to be an athlete,’ Titmus said.
‘I’ve lived my life not caring that I never got to spend birthdays with friends or never being able to go to family events … but I wasn’t willing to go back to the life where I made the decision to put my family second.
‘I also met my partner right after the [Paris] Olympics. I wasn’t willing to put that on the backburner.
‘If I hadn’t been an Olympic champion or world record holder, this wouldn’t be the decision I’m making.
‘But because I can look at myself and know I’ve absolutely done everything you can in the sport, and winning more medals wasn’t going to change the way I feel, it felt like the right time to step away.’
During her interview with the magazine, Ariarne opened up about the reason she quit swimming in a move that shocked the sporting world
Titmus and Powell, a Melbourne-based investment analyst, made their romance official at the Australian Open tennis in January
Ariarne and Powell, a Melbourne-based investment analyst, made their romance official at the Australian Open tennis in January.
Earlier this month she revealed she has moved to the Victorian capital to be with her man.
At the Paris Olympics last year, Ariarne achieved a historic third individual Olympic gold medal, winning the 400m freestyle in an event dubbed ‘the race of the century’.
She defeated the other two previous world record holders of this event – American all-time great Katie Ledecky and Canadian prodigy Summer McIntosh.
In doing so, Ariarne became the first Australian athlete since Dawn Fraser in 1964 to win back-to-back gold medals in the same event.
