Plus-size model Ashley Graham gets candid about her body

Model Ashley Graham arrives on the red carpet for the annual White House Correspondents Association Dinner in Washington, U.S., April 30, 2016. (Reuters)

Ashley Graham is the first plus-size model to make Vogue’s cover, but told us, “This confidence is not something that happens overnight. I have been working on it for a long time.”

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At the Urban Arts Partnership 25th Anniversary Benefit, where she was honored, Graham revealed, “You can eat a whole bowl of pasta and then you can go and do a lingerie shoot the next day, and I say to myself, ‘What the hell was I thinking?’ I am just like any other woman and I think I am the ‘fattest woman alive’ — but it is really about how you handle your situation.”

She says, “I look in the mirror and do affirmations . . . ‘You are bold. You are brilliant. You are beautiful.’ If my lower pooch is really popping out that day, I look at it and say, ‘Pooch, you are cute!’ . . . Words have power, and if you are going to use your words negatively, then that is exactly what is going to happen in your life.”

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The beauty added, “My career has been a huge testament to how the industry has changed.” Graham has created fashion collective Alda with “five curvy models that are trying to shape the industry. We . . . [try to convince] kids to love the skin they are in.”

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