![]() ![]() Probably best known as the lingerie model for American plus-sized label Lane Bryant, she has also appeared in campaigns for Marina Rinaldi, Levi’s and Calvin Klein. Meet Ashley Graham, plus-sized supermodel, body activist, lingerie designer, swimsuit designer, public speaker and role model to, well, millions of women and girls “who’ve thought they were fat and ugly their whole lives”. On the treadmill – me huffing and puffing away on the lowest incline, willing the hour to end as Christian the trainer puts us through our paces – she chats away about how she thinks the whole BMI thing is “kind of bullshit… mine probably makes me morbidly obese” how calories in, calories out, in her opinion, is a myth how she only ever wears a string bikini on the beach: “My theory is that big underwear makes big girls look bigger.” And, oh yes, how she’s interested to hear I do hot yoga, because she used to, too. Despite the fact that she landed late last night, we’re starting our day off early with a workout session at the South Kensington Club in west London. Ashley Graham, who works out three times a week back home in Brooklyn – a mixture of weightlifting, Pilates and shadow-boxing (“good for my waist”) – looks sleek as a seal in her maximum-support Enell bra, Nike top and XL Alala leggings, barely breaking into a sweat. ![]()
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