Ashley Graham Quotes

I didn't even know I was considered plus-size until I was on the red carpet here in L.A. one day and a lady said, 'How do you feel about being a plus-sized girl in Hollywood?' I was like, 'What's she talking about?'

Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.'

No one wants to see curvy women.

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

We've going to bring back thighs. Enough of these size zeros. Thighs, and back fat, and over-the-belt fat, it's all got to come back again, and we're the ones to do it.

I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.

I am an Asian woman. I am a size 12 Asian woman. I have been a size 18 Asian woman. I have been a size 6 Asian woman. I have been a size 18 disabled Asian woman.

My audience has accepted me for a long time as, you know, not a fat comedian but a comedian who happens to be fat. That's a huge difference.

I think the word 'plus-sized' is so divisive to women.

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

Many companies and publications don't understand what it means to be body positive or what it means to be plus-size. They're just trying to capitalize on the term because it's a hot topic.

I don't think there's anything wrong with the word 'curvy' or 'plus-size' because there are women who identify as that, and I'm not offended by it whatsoever because I don't feel like being bigger is anything wrong.

Why is it controversial to talk about the fact that fat people deserve to take up space and deserve to be sexy?

You know, I'm a curvy woman and I just want to be comfortable with that.

I'm comfortable with being a voluptuous woman because I'm not going to be a size two and that's ok with me.

You're never too fat for a new purse.

I figured being fat was my destiny.

With 'America's Next Top Model,' I've always cast girls who the industry might call 'plus size' but I like to call 'fiercely real.' That was always important to me.

There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.

I definitely have curves. I don't intend on losing them.

I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.

If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a little extra meat on there. If you like them thin-boned, then that's okay, too.

I have a pretty active presence on social networking sites, and every day there are messages from so many young girls telling me that they are happy B-Town has curvy women like me. I feel you should be happy the way you are. Of course, fitness is important, but not to the extent of obsession!

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.