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In my lowest moments of insecurity this is when I realized that I had to reclaim my body and its image as my own. She told me and taught me that true beauty comes from within and that validation and self worth must also come from within. She told me I was beautiful, and she never devalued herself. In reality, the woman I looked up to the most was my mother. And it starts with becoming your own role model.Īs a curvy woman it was the assumption that I should look up to Marilyn Monroe or Jennifer Lopez mainly because they were two of the most notable curvy women in the public eye that were being praised for their curves. We need to work together to redefine the global vision of beauty. 2%!ĪLSO READ: Carol Bartz’s 2012 Spring Commencement at UW Madison (Full Transcript) And you know what the most striking result was? That only 2% of women find themselves beautiful. And Dove’s global report on attitudes towards beauty actually did a survey with thousands of women in ten different countries. I, like so many young women, have struggled to love who I am. And instead, I was filling my life with temporary fixes. Between the parties, the men, the alcohol, I was looking for self love, for affirmation from somebody, when in reality, I didn’t love who I was, and I couldn’t seem to get a handle on regulating my own weight. And to fill the void on the inside, I began to cave to all the vices being thrown my way. I would go home and look in front of the mirror and only hate what I saw. That fat fold above my knee.Īs a young model, my confidence was tugged at and pulled in all different directions. But you know what the first thing that someone in middle school pointed out to me besides - well, besides the obvious? Was that fold above my knee. I was helping women across America at the age of 15 dress their big boobs. And, you are reading it correctly, “cantaloupes-large breasts”. In fact, here is my very first editorial for YM Magazine.
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I always hated answering that question: “What do you do for a living?” I would see that person’s eyebrow raise as I would reply: “I’m a model!” I’d have to quickly qualify with: “Well, I’m a plus size model.” Back in Nebraska, I was known as the “Fat Model”.
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I was working as a full time plus size model. I was shooting big campaigns, and before I even graduated high school, I had been to multiple different countries.Īt 17, I graduated and moved to New York, and while most kids are going through their self-discovery stage in college, my self discovery stage was in the midst of catwalks, catalogs, and casting calls. At 13, I signed with a major modeling agency and was traveling the world. I was 12 years old and scouted in a mall. How does it make you feel to be labeled? I really feel like we need to start looking beyond the plus size model paradigms to what it actually means to be a model in 2015.ĪLSO READ: Asian Doesn’t Start with A+: Olivia Lai at TEDxPhillipsAcademyAndover (Transcript) So basically what I’m saying is that the majority of this room right now is considered plus size. In fact, did you know that the plus size fashion industry actually starts at a US size 8? And it goes up to a US size 16. Now, the fashion industry may persist to label me as “plus size”, but I like to think of it as ‘my size’. Because I, like you, possess a wonderfully unique and diverse physique. Over the last 15 years, I’ve come to the conclusion that there is no one perfect body. My name is Ashley Graham, and I’m a model and body activist. I was never going to be perfect enough for an industry that defines perfection from the outside in.
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I felt free once I realized I was never going to fit the narrow mold that society wanted me to fit in. I’m going to choose to love you even though you want to take over my whole bottom half, but you’re a part of me. I’m going to keep you.Īnd cellulite, I have not forgotten about you. I’m going to choose to love you.Īnd thick thighs, you are just so sexy, you can’t stop rubbing each other. You are capable.īack fat, I see you popping over my bra today, but that’s alright. You are bold, you are brilliant, and you are beautiful. Listen to the MP3 Audio here: MP3 – Plus-size – More Like My Size by Ashley Graham at TEDxBerkleeValencia Full text of model and entrepreneur Ashley Graham on Plus-size? More Like My Size at TEDxBerkleeValencia conference.
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