In the case of Ashley Graham, confidence is her brand. In the latest episode of Fast Company’s podcast Creative Conversation, the body-positive model, entrepreneur and host of her own podcast ‘Pretty Big Deal’, explains that “it took her completely losing her confidence to build it back up to where it is now.”
“There were a lot of things, just in my confidence, that I wouldn’t have had to deal with so soon if it weren’t for modeling,” says Graham, who began her career at age 12. “Like, I’m too fat to get a job. Or I’m not pretty enough to book that cover. Or you’re just not an interesting enough person, period. So as much confidence as the industry and the business has given me, it started off with a lack of it that I wasn’t prepared for. And a label shoved into a box of just being called plus-size, nothing more, nothing less.”
In this episode of Creative Conversation, Graham shares how she learned to become her biggest advocate and is devoted to figuring out what she wants to say “now that she’s found her voice”.
Ashley Graham recently dropped into AOC via Vogue Italia, dressed in Fendi and bringing a new curvy woman crew with her that included Alva Claire, Jill Kortleve and Paloma Elsesser.
