‘Fear I’m being stalked’: Sports Illustrated swimsuit model in tears at airport

American influencer and Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Livvy Dunne was reduced to tears after an incident at the airport.

American influencer and Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Olivia “Livvy” Dunne revealed she was reduced to tears when she was hounded by a group of rabid autograph hunters who track her down at airports around the country.

“I fear that I’m being stalked and I don’t know what to do,” the former artistic gymnast said in a TikTok video, captioned “They know time, place, airport, everything!!!”

Dunne, who landed one of the four Sports Illustrated Swimsuit covers for the 2025 issue, recalled that she often sees a group of “at least 10 middle-aged men” demanding her to sign “a stack of 40 pictures or magazines,” New York Post reported.

“They will run after me down the TSA precheck line and yell at me if I don’t give them my autograph,” she told her eight million followers. “It’s insane. They will yell at me and make a scene and the people around me are scared.”

Former LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne. Picture: AP Photo/Pamela Smith

Dunne claims her “stalkers” know her every trip and will be waiting for her regardless of her plans, including a business trip or a family vacation.

“They’re waiting there,” she said. “It’s something with the airline, and it’s weird.”

She prefaced her situation that the men would find her in odd locations around the country.

“Yes I know I’m chronically online and I post my life, but I’m talking about like a 20-minute connecting flight through Omaha, Nebraska, they would be waiting there,” she said.

“I’m not making content on a connecting flight. I’m talking about the most random cities.”

Olivia Dunne has spoken out about a group of men who have been tracking her down at airports across the country. Picture: @livvy / TikTok

Dunne was reduced to tears in her car ride from the airport after a troubling experience with autograph seekers on May 30, 2025. Picture: @livvy / TikTok

Dunne included a clip of herself from earlier in the day inside a car, crying after an unsettling event she faced after a red-eye flight.

Dunne says the group had “circled” the MLB WAG as she waited at baggage claim at the undisclosed airport.

On Thursday, she shared a picture of herself and Pittsburgh Pirates boyfriend Paul Skenes sitting together on a private jet.

Dunne said she wasn’t the only one to experience the traumatic celebrity treatment while out in public, referring to Olympic sprinter Gabby Thomas’ recent problems with the autograph hounds.

“It’s not only me, I remember Gabby Thomas made a video about this and it needs to stop because it’s scary for girls, it’s weird,” Dunne said.

Former gymnast Livvy Dunne walks the runway at the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Runway Show on May 31, 2025 in Miami Beach, Florida. Picture: Ivan Apfel/Getty Images

Thomas praised Dunne for speaking out over the frightening encounters.

“Girl!! So sad that because we’re good at what we do people feel like they should have constant access to us and give us travel anxiety. glad you’re speaking up too,” Thomas commented.

The Olympic gold medallist said she has a group of up to six middle-aged men hounding her for autographs while she’s in public, saying one time they got aggressive with her after she denied them access.

“At this point, every time I travel I’m afraid that these men, it’s three to six of them, middle-aged, are going to show up and harass me. And it doesn’t matter what city — they’ve come when I was travelling to and from Chicago, they’ve come when I was travelling to and from Miami and they have my flight information,” Thomas said in a TikTok video posted in January.

“What scares me is that they have my flight information, even when I don’t even know what time I’m flying out sometimes. I don’t tell anyone my flight information. I’ve changed all my email passwords. I don’t know if they’re hacking me. But they get really aggressive and hostile if I say no and when I’m by myself, it’s really scary,” Thomas added.

This article originally appeared on New York Post and was reproduced with permission