Plus-size supermodel Ashley Graham makes this super-critical claim about her own body

Ashley Graham is definitely comfortable in her own skin, which she bore plenty of in Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue. The first plus-sized model to make Vogue’s cover said she wasn’t always this confident about her bodacious bod.

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“This confidence is not something that happens overnight,” Graham told Page Six. “I have been working on it for a long time.”

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Graham was honored recently at the Urban Arts Partnership 25th Anniversary Benefit, and talked about food, modeling and how she thinks she is the “fattest woman alive.”

“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 told Page Six. “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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Graham said that her success as a supermodel is a “huge testament to how the industry has changed.”

She 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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