Model Ashley Graham says she sometimes wakes up and thinks ‘I’m the fattest woman alive’
SHE’S one of the world’s most celebrated models, having graced the covers of Sports Illustrated and Vogue, but Ashley Graham still struggles with her body image.
DESPITE gracing the covers of Sports Illustrated and Vogue, Ashley Graham still struggles with her body image.
“I wake up sometimes and I think ‘I’m the fattest woman alive,’” she told People, adding that previous relationships have ended because men couldn’t accept her size.
“I’ve lived the torment of boyfriends breaking up with me because they were afraid I was going to be too fat later in life,” she said.
But the 29-year-old model knows how to snap herself out of it.
“I look in the mirror and I have my affirmations. [I say] ‘You are bold. You are brilliant and you are beautiful.’”
And she even gives a shout-out to certain body parts if she feels the need to.
“If my lower pooch is really puffing out that day, I say ‘Lower pooch you are cute.’ And if the hips are really popping I say ‘I love you too hips.’”
Graham, who promotes the notion of #beautybeyondsize on social media, owns her “bumps, lumps or cellulite,” and embraces what some may consider a flaw.
“Having more role models, more women who are like ‘Yeah, I have cellulite. Yeah, it’s even on my arms, not just my legs. My butt is a really bizarre shape but you know what, whatever, I’m just going to go rock it.’
“I think if we had more role models like that that, that were really just speaking their truth about their body and the skin that they’re in then maybe young America would be different,” she said
Besides, that’s one area her husband doesn’t mind.
This article originally appeared in The New York Post.