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Sports Illustrated "Chiobu" Model

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Sports Illustrated’s ‘curviest model’ Hunter McGrady says critics of her career and body ‘fuel her’ to be ‘louder and prouder’
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As a model with more than half a million followers on Instagram, Hunter McGrady knows a thing or two about living life in the public eye.

She's widely known as Sports Illustrated's "curviest model" — she's been featured in the magazine's swimsuit issue three times — and was most recently seen on the cover of The Knot's fashion issue. When not modeling, McGrady also dedicates her time to working with charities like the JED Foundation and 1 Heart 1 Mission, and runs a body-positivity campaign called #AllWorthy.

INSIDER recently spoke with McGrady about her modeling career, and how critics "fuel" her to be loud and proud.

Hunter McGrady originally entered the industry as a 'straight-sized' model

McGrady was born in Southern, California to a model mother and actor father, Michael McGrady. At the time she began modeling, McGrady said she was a size two and trying to "fit into a mold" set by the modeling industry.

"I actually started as a 'straight-sized' model — that's basically what they call it in this business," McGrady told INSIDER. "I was about a size two, and that was something I couldn't keep up with."

"I just wasn't meant to be in that size and that frame," she continued. "I was trying so hard to fit into that mold, and it just couldn't happen to me."



However, McGrady eventually "learned about plus-size modeling" around the age of 19, and became "enamored and excited" to learn that "something like this existed." Still, her journey to become a "plus-size" model wasn't always easy.

"Along the way, there are a lot of mean comments that you get, and a lot of people don't agree with it — a lot of people have nasty things to say," McGrady said.
"But for me, instead of looking at that and getting angry, I look at that and I go, 'Okay so this is showing me that we still have a long way to go because people are still very judgmental and not open to this,'" she said. "That, to me, almost fuels me to continue being louder and prouder about being a plus-sized model."

Now, McGrady is an advocate for 'plus-sized' models, though she feels 'in-between' about the phrase

Speaking to INSIDER, McGrady said she once rejected the term "plus-sized." When asked how she currently feels about the phrase, the model said "other women" have changed her view.

"When I got asked this when I first came into this industry, I was like, 'Don't label us' and 'That's putting us in a different box and we're trying to get away from that,'" McGrady said.

"While I do still agree with a lot of that, I've also gotten notes from women who have said, 'I'm actually really proud to identify like that,'" she continued. "So for me, that kind of made me think, 'Who am I to sit here and tell anyone what they should be called or not?'"

"I'm kind of in-between," McGrady said. "I think if you have a problem with it, fine, but don't make it such a big deal and push it on other people because a lot of women are really proud of holding that title. Whatever makes you feel powerful, incredible, and wonderful, that's what I want for you."

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Hunter McGrady.Gary Gershoff/Getty Images
Read more: This Curve model says we should all stop using the term 'real women'

McGrady has made history with her appearances in Sports Illustrated, and has also begun a movement called #AllWorthy

For the past three years, McGrady has been featured in Sports Illustrated's famous swimsuit issue. She's currently the magazine's "curviest model," an achievement that McGrady says she's "so proud" of.

Being featured in the magazine also inspired her to begin a body-positivity campaign called #AllWorthy on Instagram.

"I created #AllWorthy about three years ago when Sports Illustrated dropped my first issue with them," McGrady said.

"I was sitting there watching TV thinking, 'Oh my gosh. I would've never thought I was worthy enough to be in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit, let alone be the curviest model they've ever had and make history,'" she said. "Then I started thinking, 'Why am I thinking this way?'"

McGrady feels that "all women" should feel successful, beautiful, worthy, heard, and seen. To help foster those feelings, the model began to share photos on Instagram alongside the hashtag, #AllWorthy.

"I thought, 'I'll create a little community where we can go and chat with each other, and look at each other, and be supportive of one another — women really lifting each other up," McGrady said.

"I created #AllWorthy as a place on Instagram where you could put up your photo and see tons of women feeling beautiful as they are," she continued. "That's exactly what I wanted and why I created it."
 
She shd sell better be jim tau, fat pillow, and bedroom item... lum seng products...

 
If curvy becos of genetics or sickness it is perfectly fine, such women usually have small feet and big bodies..if she has a pair of proportional or big feet it just means the girl is too lazy to lose weight and is fat...most partum women included no excuses
 
If there is no demand for such fatties and biz drops rest assured the chio boos will come back. But if there are more sickos n they are buying such filth creating demand than of course such garbage will perpetuate
 
If there is no demand for such fatties and biz drops rest assured the chio boos will come back. But if there are more sickos n they are buying such filth creating demand than of course such garbage will perpetuate
There is a niche market for just about anything. You must find that sweet spot.
 
Singaporean girl who lost 52lbs (24kg) within 3 years after being called Fat Swan
18 May 2013

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A Singapore girl`s story of her uphill battle to lose weight, and then ironically, a battle to gain weight as she became anorexic has gone viral and struck a chord with thousands of Singaporean netizens.

"Her pink dress makes her look even more like a pig", "what a fat swan" and "smokey eyes whore makeup" were some of the unkind comments she had to endure from her classmates.
In 2010, weight 180lbs ( 82kg)

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Back home, her mental anguish didn`t stop either. When she logged into her Facebook, she was upset at the number of snide comments left on her prom picture about her weight.

In a message to others battling with obesity, she said that as much as she would love to tell them not to listen to mean people, she can`t, as ignoring others won`t stop the problem.

"I told myself that I will change my body image so that I can tell them to f**k off," she said. So she worked hard to lose 30kg and learnt how to put on makeup.

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She said she holds no bitterness towards the people who used to bully her, as they were the indirect cause of her successful transformation. She readily admitted that she herself used to have a bad attitude, and that changing her attitude made her a better and more beautiful person both inside and out.

"Always believe that change is possible," she said.

However, while many praised her for her successful weight-loss journey, few knew that she also was a victim of a weight problem on the other end of the spectrum - anorexia.


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