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09.06.2024 - 16:43 / perezhilton.com
Ashley Graham may be an accomplished model now, but her looks weren’t always celebrated. In fact, she was downright bullied because of them in middle school.
In a lengthy essay published by Time on Wednesday, the 36-year-old wrote about the difficulties of growing up with her famously fuller figure — beginning with middle school bullies. She wrote:
Omg that’s so f**ked up…
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She added that because she was on the receiving end of so much criticism, her “sense of self evolved under the influence of feedback from others.” And that continued even after she was scouted at just 12 years old:
How messed up! And so harmful to an impressionable young woman!
Even after returning to school from weekend modeling gigs, she said both students and teachers alike would “tilt their heads and squint at me, looking for whatever the industry saw” because “plus-size wasn’t cool, but the pretty was interesting.”
She recalled longing for a mentor who could help her understand her “value and purpose as a model,” but that there was no one in the industry she could “emulate.” But eventually a conversation with her mom changed everything.
She said that at 18 years old, she was living in Manhattan struggling with the complications of being “a plus-size model at a younger age.” On the verge of quitting it all, she called her mom:
From then on, she started using positive affirmations to help develop her “self-love.” And thank goodness she did! Because like her mom predicted, she’s now a hero to so many! SHE’S now the mentor she was looking for as a child!
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