![]() ![]() 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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