“I think that you can be healthy at any size and my goal is to help and educate women on that,” she wrote. “It doesn’t matter if you’re a size 2 or 22 as long as you’re taking care of your body, working out, and telling yourself, ‘I love you’ instead of taking in the negativity of beauty standards.”
-Ashley Graham
Ashley Graham, 27, just became the first plus-size model to be featured for an ad in Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit edition. The issue will hit stands February 9th. Graham, who wears a size 16, has always embraced her curves, appearing in ads for Lane Bryant and Addition Elle, a plus-sized lingerie retailer. In 2012, she was named the Full Figured Fashion Week’s Model of the Year.
“I know my curves are sexy and I want everyone else to know that theirs are too. There is no reason to hide and every reason to flaunt.”
Beauty doesn’t have a size. Good for Ashley.
