When the collection launched, Vogue U.K. was quick to call Graham, “The new role model,” for women everywhere. It’s a conclusion they’ve come to, no doubt, because Graham is — at the end of the day — an average-sized woman. She is not incredibly slender, nor is she fat. She has stretch marks and “imperfections,” just as most of us do, and she’s not afraid of showing them off. “Of course I get called a ‘fatty’ on Instagram and I always get comments saying, ‘Why didn’t you airbrush out your cellulite before you posted that picture?’ But I don’t care,” she told Vogue. “I’ve been doing this for 15 years so I just laugh at it and I’m happy with who I am.” More often than not, body-positive movements or brands are led by women much larger than Graham, so to see someone like her (an in-betweener, if you will), embrace imperfection and normality (because things like cellulite are normal) is definitely inspiring.
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Toward the end of her interview with Vogue, Graham discusses the fashion industry, and says, ”You’ll know when girls have made it in the industry when there are multiple girls everywhere and not just one golden girl. But people are coming to terms with it. I think that people don’t like change — but change is happening.” The reason we know the names of so many plus-size models today is definitely because change is happening. Maybe women like Graham, Huffine, and Hayward aren’t fat. But they don’t have to be to fat to represent women. That they fall somewhere in between straight-size and plus-size (the larger side of plus-size, that is) already makes them special, because they’re representative of so many women who don’t often get to see girls who look like them in a magazine. If the industry came to a place when all women, from Kate Moss to Ashley Graham to Tess Munster, had a place on billboards and on the cover of Elle, well, that would be a pretty damn good day. So is Ashley Graham a role model? Yes, because she’s getting us closer to that size-inclusive day.
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