Photo: Terry Richardson

Scoring a Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover sure can do wonders for a girl’s career. Exhibit A: Kate Upton. After gaining internet fame with her rendition of the Dougie, she snagged the SI swimsuit cover and her star has been rising ever since.

Upton recently went back to her roots–and by that we mean creating viral dance videos–doing a, um, jiggly Cat Daddy dance for Terry Richardson while wearing that famous flossy bikini. Uncle Terry posted it on his site Tuesday and it promptly went viral, despite the lack of a nip slip (we still can’t figure out how that never happened.) Anyway, after the video got about 700,000 hits, YouTube banned it for its salacious content, Richardson re-posted it to Vimeo, and then YouTube put it back anyway.

The moral? The video now has over 1.1 million hits. There’s no such thing as bad publicity.

At least let’s hope Anna Wintour doesn’t think so.

Photo: Terry Richardson/Terry’s Diary