Ashley Graham: The size 16 model calling for an end to 'plus size' labels, The Independent
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Why do we want to be put in a different category than all the other types of models?'
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Ashley Graham Doesn't Want to Be Called a 'Plus-Size Model
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Ashley Graham is the first plus-size model to star on the cover of British Vogue
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The Mean Life of a 'Midsize' Model - The New York Times
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Curve model and body-positive activist Ashley Graham reveals her struggle to find the right size Oscars dress, The Independent
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Size 16 model Sonny Turner used to wear padding on her hips to look bigger revealing being 'fat makes me money' on C5's Curvy Girls Stripped Bare
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Ashley Graham hates being labeled a 'plus-sized model
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Ashley Graham Calls Out Amy Schumer For Rejecting The Term 'Plus-Size
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Who is Ashley Graham? American plus-size model and Instagram star who is pregnant with her first child
BUST Magazine - Ashley Graham is the first size 16 model on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit! Here's what she said when we interviewed her last year.
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SXSW 2016: Ashley Graham says 'plus-size' labels outdated