Ashley Graham

I love my hourglass figure. ”

As women gain weight, they start judging themselves. But who cares! Embrace what you have. Say, 'Belly, you might be poking out today, but I'm going to choose to love you and nurture you.' ”

I believe that we're all here for a purpose and that one of my biggest ones is to help people understand that they're beautiful. ”

There's something to be said about just being vulnerable. Every woman has gone through something in her life that has been an image issue, or it has been something where somebody told her she's not good enough. And every woman can relate to that. ”

The sum total of what I learned about African American culture in school was Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Underground Railroad. This was more than my mom knew; she didn't even see a black person in real life until she was 18 years old. ”

I don't think guys judge curvy women as much as women do. It shocks me how catty some women can be. In my whole life, I only had one guy break up with me over weight. ”

I've lived the torment of the names. I've lived the torment of boyfriends breaking up with me because they were afraid I was going to be too fat later in life. ”

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. ”

I just don't live my life in a world where I am not feeling my best, and feeling my best is feeling sexy. ”

The biggest misconception is that the purpose of going to the gym is to change your body. We should be working out to be healthy. ”