Ashley Graham Quotes

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Ashley Graham

Profession : Model

Birth : October 30, 1987

Confidence starts at home, and something my mother never did was look in the mirror and say she was ugly or fat.

Ashley Graham

One thing my mother did is that she never looked in the mirror and said, 'I'm so fat,'or 'I'm so ugly. I need to go on a diet.' Projecting that onto yourself is only going to make your daughter or son think that of themselves. Because they're a product of you.

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I am more than my measurements. I'm not Ashley Graham just because I'm curvy.

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Words have power, and if you are going to use your words negatively, then that is exactly what is going to happen in your life.

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I really, truly believe beauty is beyond size.

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Curvy models are becoming more and more vocal about the isolating nature of the term 'plus-size.' We are calling ourselves what we want to be called - women, with shapes that are our own.

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Back in Nebraska, I was known as the fat model - the girl who was pretty for a big girl. My body, like my confidence, has been picked apart, manipulated, and controlled by others who didn't necessarily understand it.

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To not see black or Latina women as famous in my industry is crazy! I have to talk about it.

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I think women think I'm inspirational because I'm unapologetic. I have cellulite. I have back fat. I've got a thick stomach. But I work my body like I don't because I don't know any other body. I don't know how to feel thin. I just know how to feel like Ashley.

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I remember being told by my very first photographer that if I lost weight, and I was a skinny model, it would do wonders for my career. My mum got really defensive - 'I don't think we will be doing that, thank you so much, goodbye.'

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I dated all the wrong men. I thought I could feel appreciated in my body through guys.

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I love my hourglass figure.

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My mom's parents were farmers, so every summer, my sisters and I would help out, hauling pipe and pulling maggots off the corn. We hated it, but it taught me the meaning of good hard work.

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People called me 'cottage cheese thighs' all through school.

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What better time to write a memoir than the big 3-0?

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Eventually, I joined a church. I didn't go there to find a boyfriend; I truly wasn't looking for anyone other than the person I wanted to be.

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The fashion industry may persist to label me as 'plus-size,' but I like to think of it as 'my size.'

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I was called the girl that was 'pretty for a big girl,' 'the fat model.'

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I'm giving curvy women a seat at a table that we've never been invited to before - a table with high-end fashion people who have never considered us beautiful.

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The beauty of being a curvier girl is that we're all shaped so differently.

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