Ashley Graham Quotes

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Ashley Graham

Profession : Model

Birth : October 30, 1987

When I'm traveling out of the country, a lot of guys give me a high five, and then they're like, 'I love your work!'

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I wasn't put on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated' as a plus-size model; I was put on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated' as a model, as a rookie, as Ashley Graham.

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I'm a confident woman with thick skin, and as a model in the public eye, I'm conditioned to accept criticism.

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For 10 years, I'd been told I was always going to be a catalogue girl, never a cover girl. Well, I got with IMG and did five covers in a year, boom, boom, boom.

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Social media has truly helped my career because it has given models a voice. And a voice is something that we want to see a change in the industry.

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I love blocking people. I'm not afraid to block anybody.

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I want to be a better parent than I had. Even though my mom was absolutely amazing. Her and I are still best friends to this day. I think that the next generation should always be better and better.

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People want to know that there's someone else out there that looks like them.

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That's really truly what my message is - finding self love within yourself and not comparing yourself to others - because there's no such thing as perfection, because perfection doesn't exist.

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I don't think guys judge curvy women as much as women do. It shocks me how catty some women can be. In my whole life, I only had one guy break up with me over weight.

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I always felt second best. I was never the prettiest, never the skinniest, never the fastest in my sports. Never the smartest, because I have dyslexia. Then, all of a sudden, people were like, 'You're gorgeous.' And I was like, 'What?'

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As women gain weight, they start judging themselves. But who cares! Embrace what you have. Say, 'Belly, you might be poking out today, but I'm going to choose to love you and nurture you.'

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We need to work together to redefine the global image of beauty and continue to push for a more inclusive world.

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A lot of who I am is connected to my size, and I am so happy with who I am.

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People want to see themselves in the industry that, for so long, has ostracized girls of my size.

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There's no such thing as being perfect, and that doesn't just mean the perfect body.

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There are some days I feel fat. I'm not convinced there's going to be a moment where every woman in the world wakes up and feels like a million dollars. So, what I want to do is give women the tools that will help when those moments come up. Sometimes it can be as easy as telling yourself that you are beautiful.

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What you see is what you get. I don't change who I am from public to private.

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I believe that we're all here for a purpose and that one of my biggest ones is to help people understand that they're beautiful.

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I had to realize that if I didn't really love who I was, and if I couldn't appreciate this - my body - as my moneymaker, then I wasn't going to make any money.

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