Pretty in INK

Jessica Carter crushed the competition to take home top honors

- By Zeynep Yenisey

Edgy, bewitching, and ethereal are all words that can only begin to describe Jessica Carter, the winner of the 2020 Maxim Cover Girl competition. She’s not your average cover model, but evidently, she’s exactly the woman people have been wanting to see.

Carter has an air of casual unencumbered beauty about her, with sleek platinum blonde tresses, rich brown eyes under lush lashes, and perfectly pouty bee-stung lips. To top it all off, she boasts an impressive collection of intricate tattoos that adorn and accentuate her glorious figure.

“I have between 20 and 30 tattoos,” she says, adding that she got inked for the first time at the age of 16. “It was a Chinese symbol. You know, when you’re 16, you don’t really think about the things that you want on your body long term. It was a teenage choice, and I don’t hate it! At the time it was very trendy, but that was over a decade ago. I picked it offof a poster at the tattoo shop. Now I make more thoughtful choices.”

Her killer looks are amplified by an irresistible personality that’s humble and unapologetically authentic—an absolutely nuclear combination that makes Carter a rare gem of a woman. It’s no wonder she stood out from the crowd and captured the undivided attention of devoted fans who voted her all the way to the top.