Ashley Graham talks to Grazia about modelling, motherhood and accepting her pregnancy body. There's a reason why she's a pretty big deal right now...
accepts that it is her lot in life to have to talk about her body. On the one hand, she’s a model so, sure. But on the other, she is held up a portrait of womanhood which is other, which needs to be explained, which comes with a caveat... Even though, really, her body is more representative of the majority of women than most of her catwalk colleagues. We are likely all more Graham than Hadid, for example.
Graham credits her mother with supporting her evolution into the powerhouse she has become. ‘My mother told me that my body is going to change, that’s life. She kept me in the modelling industry [when] I wanted to leave. I had to take ownership over me.’ She attributes her Christian faith and the power of affirmations in getting her on track. This journey – via ‘groundbreaking’ Sports Illustrated covers, ‘controversial’ adverts for US department store Lane Bryant – culminated in a 2015 TED talk.
The shifting floor of pregnancy is something she has been typically honest and bold about – as the pictures here, unveiling her seventh Marina Rinaldi campaign with a very visible baby bump, show: ‘I feel like we all have complicated relationships with our body. Mine has been changing in some new and interesting ways. It hasn’t been easy to embrace my pregnant body, but it’s definitely a reminder of how awesome our bodies truly are.
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