Ashley Graham Covers Harper's Bazaar UK July 2020 With Baby Isaac
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Ashley Graham Covers Harper's Bazaar UK July 2020 With Baby Isaac
Top model and voice for women Ashley Graham covers the July 2020 issue of Harper’s Bazaar UK. Photographed by her husband, cinematographer Justin Ervin in and around her childhood home in Nebraska, the quarantined new mom reflects on her roots and life today, and pens a letter to her newborn son Isaac, born in January 2020.
One of the world’s most influential voices on body positivity, says that she was quite shocked over the changes she experienced in the early weeks of her pregnancy. Her initial response "I was so excited. I knew immediately I was going to be a great mom." soon became a psychological, emotional struggle with the changes in her own body.
"That was the wildest part. I thought, 'What about the things I’ve told myself? What about the affirmations I’ve gone through?' None of these mattered because my body was changing so rapidly. It really took me some time to figure it out mentally, because it was like there was an alien taking over my body." She thinks she has ‘pre-natal depression’. "When you go from laughing to crying in 30 seconds, you do wonder if you are OK. Unbeknown to me, that’s pregnancy,” Graham tells Lydia Slater.
"One of the best things I did for myself was to make pregnant friends, and then I realised I wasn’t alone, I was normal, and that calmed me down. I started to enjoy being pregnant in my third trimester."
