While she might be one of the most beautiful and curvaceous models out there, Ashley Graham is tired of everyone putting the focus on her body, and especially in interviews.
As a matter of fact, the brunette beauty says that while she knows that she helped spearhead a movement for the plus size modeling industry, she’s tired of all this body talk, and she means both the positive and the negative. Here’s what she has to say.
Speaking to the Wall Street Journal Magazine in a new interview, Ashley says that while there was a time in which she was told to lose weight in order to succeed with her modeling career, that time is long gone.
Yet, she still believes that there is a lack of representation in her industry and that’s why she posts so many photos on her Instagram account to keep things “real.”
Ashley Graham Hates That She Always Has To Talk About Her Body In Interviews
“This is why I don’t post like the ‘perfect’ Instagram photos,” she said. “I keep it real and raw constantly because I want [people] to know that there are women with cellulite, with back fat, with stretch marks…. There are a lot of curvy women, plus-size women, fat women, whatever you want to call them.”
Ashley also makes it no secret that her earlier days in her career was quite difficult, especially when she was a teen trying to make it in the modeling world. “My self-esteem plummeted, and I had my agents telling me if you don’t lose weight, then you’re not going to work,” she said. “The lowest part of realizing that I didn’t get a job because I was ‘too fat’ actually gave me the courage and the ambition to go and fill a void in an industry.”
With that said, Ashley doesn’t believe there was anyone out there really trying to lose weight during the coronavirus quarantine.
“I am a full-fledged 16. I haven’t been a full-fledged 16 since I got married,” she told WSJ. Magazine. “I have like 25 pounds on me that I still have from before I was pregnant. I don’t know one person that actually lost weight in quarantine. So then to go and try to lose baby weight in quarantine is an epic fail.”
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